scholarly journals The World at Risk: Vulnerability, Precarity, and Connectedness

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-149
Author(s):  
James F. Keenan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Theological Ethics ◽  
Linda Hogan ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The World ◽  
Risk Vulnerability ◽  
Catholic Theological

This article considers the world at risk; in particular it focuses on the three topics covered at the international conference of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church in 2018 in Sarajevo: climate change, its impact on marginalized populations, and the tragic banality of contemporary political leadership. The article turns to a proposal by Trinity College’s Linda Hogan to develop an ethics of vulnerability so as to respond to the triple crisis. After examining contemporary writings on both vulnerability and precarity by Judith Butler and others, it concludes by applying the ethics of vulnerability to other urgent cases as well.

Uncertainties in Safety and Security

2020 ◽  
pp. 383-412
Author(s):  
Tünde Anna Kovács ◽  
Zoltán Nyikes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Critical Infrastructure Protection ◽  
Safe Operation ◽  
Infrastructure Protection ◽  
Terror Attacks ◽  
The World

In today's world, critical infrastructure encompasses facilities vital to the economy, politics, and population. Their maintenance and safe operation can ensure the supply for the population. These facilities are at risk due to climate change, natural disasters, terror attacks, or wars which are increasingly affecting countries around the world. In addition, the human factor can also cause uncertainty and damages. The function of the world depends on human activities. In this chapter the uncertainties in safety and security are introduced. Security is the most important part as it is the critical infrastructure protection and human safety . The important pillars of safety and security and these uncertainties are introduced in this chapter.

The Logic of the Soviet Organisational Society

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 91-111
Author(s):  
Evelyn Moser
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Functional Differentiation ◽  
Universal Function ◽  
The Political ◽  
Soviet Regime ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Stability

Abstract The paper describes and discusses the variant of societal differentiation that evolved under the Soviet regime. The argumentation starts with the conceptualisation of socialism as a program with a universal, function system-exceeding claim for validity. The implementation of the socialist program may be perceived as an effort to create structures which allow complete inclusion in the sense of an all-encompassing political addressability. In this regard, the political leadership tried to set up the society as a hierarchically structured organisation. The example of Soviet agriculture and the structures of Soviet villages, however, show that notwithstanding an all-encompassing degree of organisation, strictly ‘organised’ forms of economic communication coexisted with and were interrelated to ‘non-organisable’ and even ideologically deviant forms of agricultural production by personal smallholdings. Such niches of functional differentiation did not only provide compensation for the inability of the political leadership to cope with societal complexity, but also created connectivity in the world society and could hardly be oppressed without putting the stability of the regime at risk.

PLANNING BEFORE THE WEST BURNS: DO WESTERN STATES’ MITIGATION PLANS FACTOR IN RECOVERY AND LOCAL NEEDS?

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Harrison Crum
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
American Population ◽  
The West ◽  
Past Work ◽  
The World

Abstract A growing proportion of the American population is at risk to the effects of wildfires as fire seasons continue to lengthen and intensify. Because of this, it is crucial that states adequately prepare for these powerful fires, along with all other disasters, and their long-term impacts. Long-term disaster recovery is an understudied and misunderstood field, yet much can be gained from current and past work that has identified common crucial problems and limitations in planning for disaster recovery. Across a range of states working with the same hazard, state mitigation plans struggle to consistently define their critical terms and often fail to detail how they will work directly with local communities and governments and address the needs of residents in these communities. As disasters become a progressively larger issue with the consequences of climate change, how states address these issues in their mitigation plans will be essential to minimizing the impacts of disasters on communities throughout the world and providing them with the resources to recover better after a disaster.

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