2013年5月，Professor Dirk Helbing在Nature杂志Perspactive栏目发表文章，对全局网络化风险及其应对策略进行了讨论。Science Daily网站以Global Networks Must Be Redesigned为题对该文进行了评述。参见http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130501131943.htm

Global Networks Must be Re-Designed

The increasing interdependencies between the world’s technological, socio-economic, and environmental systems have the potential to create global catastrophic risks. We may have to re-design many global networks, concludes Professor Dirk Helbing at ETH Zurich’s Risk Center in this week’s issue of Nature. Otherwise they could turn into “global time bombs”.

Paper Source: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12047

Webpages: http://www.soms.ethz.ch, http://www.futurict.eu

See also

• “Denial of catastrophic risks”, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6124/1123.full
• World Economic Forum, Global Risks 2011, 2012, and 2013 (WEF, Geneva, Switzerland, 2011, 2012, 2013), downloadable via http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-risks

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