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A Safe Governance Space for Humanity: Necessary Conditions for the Governance of Global Catastrophic Risks
Author(s) -
Fisher Len,
Sandberg Anders
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
global policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1758-5899
pISSN - 1758-5880
DOI - 10.1111/1758-5899.13030
Subject(s) - corporate governance , business , risk analysis (engineering) , humanity , global governance , set (abstract data type) , warning system , computer security , law and economics , environmental resource management , political science , computer science , economics , law , telecommunications , finance , programming language
The world faces a multiplicity of global catastrophic risks (GCRs), whose functionality as individual and collective complex adaptive networks (CANs) poses unique problems for governance in a world that itself comprises an intricately interlinked set of CANs. Here we examine necessary conditions for new approaches to governance that consider the known properties of CANs—especially that small changes in one part of the system can cascade and amplify throughout the system and that the system as a whole can also undergo rapid, dramatic, and often unpredictable change with little or no warning.