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The global citizen of the twenty-first century faces a wide spectrum of risks, such as from transportation, ionizing radiation, the propagation of contagious diseases, terrorism, natural disasters, and global climate change. Some of them, for instance the risk of a motorcycle accident, affect only individuals and have merely occasional direct impacts on society. Nevertheless the accumulation of these individual risks is leading to major long-term changes in risk patterns.
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Jacobsson, P., Grimvall, G., Holmgren, Å., Thedéen, T. (2010). Introduction: the Global Risk Arena, Technological Systems and This Book. In: Grimvall, G., Holmgren, Å., Jacobsson, P., Thedéen, T. (eds) Risks in Technological Systems. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-641-0_1
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