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ECONOMIC AND LABOUR RELATIONS REVIEW
Volume 31, Issue 3, Pages 444-466Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1177/1035304620944301
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Climate change; crisis; disaster management; environmental degradation; inequality; latent system failure; pandemics; population; resource depletion; social dislocation
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Human civilisation faces a series of existential threats from the combination of five global and human-engineered challenges, namely climate change, resource depletion, environmental degradation, overpopulation and rising social inequality. These challenges are arguably being manifested in both an increased likelihood and magnified impact of catastrophes like forest fires, prolonged droughts, pandemics and social dislocation/upheaval. This article argues that in understanding and addressing these challenges, important lessons can be drawn from what has repeatedly caused organisational failures. It applies the 'Ten Pathways to Disaster' model to a series of disasters/catastrophic events and then argues this model is salient to understanding inadequate responses to the five threats to civilisation. The article argues that because these challenges interact in mutually reinforcing ways, it is critical to address them simultaneously not in isolation.
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