by Len Fisher | 19 Sep 2017 | Planning for Life's Crises: Media and Writing
Some basic references for a talk that I delivered to the Aon Benfield conference “Risk Re-imagined” (Gold Coast, Australia, September 18-20 (2017)) IRGC Concept Note “Preparing for Future Catastrophes”...
by Len Fisher | 19 Jun 2017 | Mini Stories from Science
Dramatic, unforeseen change is an increasing feature of our interconnected world. But how can we prepare for it? This is a blog summary of a feature article due to appear in “The Actuary” (July edition), and on which I will be expanding in a keynote talk...
by Len Fisher | 14 May 2016 | Mini Stories from Science, Planning for Life's Crises: Media and Writing
Early in 2015 I was invited, together with co-authors from the International Risk Governance Council, to write a review on the above topic for a special issue of the journal Ecological Economics. The referees liked the writing, but wanted us to add more economics... by Len Fisher | 27 Jun 2013 | Think Like a Scientist: Media and Writing
Opening address to IRGC Expert Workshop “Governance of Slow-Developing Catastrophic Risk”, Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, June 27-28 (2013) by Len Fisher | 17 Jun 2013 | Think Like a Scientist: Media and Writing
European Society for Risk Analysis 22nd Conference, Trondheim, June 17-19 (2013) (with Marie Valentine-Florin) Many of the serious problems that we face today follow a similar pattern, where the effects of slow, imperceptible change go unheeded until they bring us to...