Too Big to Ignore: Global Risk Perception Gaps Between Scientists and Business Leaders
Abstract Two major reports assessing global systemic risks have been published recently, presenting large‐scale panel data on the risk perceptions of different key communities, most notably business leaders and global change scientists. While both of these global communities agree on ranking environ...
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| author | Matthias Garschagen Sylvia L. R. Wood Jennifer Garard Maria Ivanova Amy Luers |
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| description | Abstract Two major reports assessing global systemic risks have been published recently, presenting large‐scale panel data on the risk perceptions of different key communities, most notably business leaders and global change scientists. While both of these global communities agree on ranking environmental risks the highest, followed by societal, geopolitical, technological, and economic risks, business leaders perceive the likelihood of most risks as lower than scientists. This gap implies vexing questions in relation to building a shared sense of urgency and facilitating collective action. These questions need to be addressed through new ways of co‐creating risk assessments and strategic futures analysis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a5d48a3fdc3b4bcdb234201185bbb9872022-12-22T00:50:56ZengWileyEarth's Future2328-42772020-03-0183n/an/a10.1029/2020EF001498Too Big to Ignore: Global Risk Perception Gaps Between Scientists and Business LeadersMatthias Garschagen0Sylvia L. R. Wood1Jennifer Garard2Maria Ivanova3Amy Luers4Department of Geography Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München Munich GermanyFuture Earth Montréal Quebec CanadaFuture Earth Montréal Quebec CanadaCenter for Governance and Sustainability, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies University of Massachusetts Boston Boston MA USAFuture Earth Montréal Quebec CanadaAbstract Two major reports assessing global systemic risks have been published recently, presenting large‐scale panel data on the risk perceptions of different key communities, most notably business leaders and global change scientists. While both of these global communities agree on ranking environmental risks the highest, followed by societal, geopolitical, technological, and economic risks, business leaders perceive the likelihood of most risks as lower than scientists. This gap implies vexing questions in relation to building a shared sense of urgency and facilitating collective action. These questions need to be addressed through new ways of co‐creating risk assessments and strategic futures analysis.https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001498global riskscollective actionshared sense of risk |
| spellingShingle | Matthias Garschagen Sylvia L. R. Wood Jennifer Garard Maria Ivanova Amy Luers Too Big to Ignore: Global Risk Perception Gaps Between Scientists and Business Leaders Earth's Future global risks collective action shared sense of risk |
| title | Too Big to Ignore: Global Risk Perception Gaps Between Scientists and Business Leaders |
| title_full | Too Big to Ignore: Global Risk Perception Gaps Between Scientists and Business Leaders |
| title_fullStr | Too Big to Ignore: Global Risk Perception Gaps Between Scientists and Business Leaders |
| title_full_unstemmed | Too Big to Ignore: Global Risk Perception Gaps Between Scientists and Business Leaders |
| title_short | Too Big to Ignore: Global Risk Perception Gaps Between Scientists and Business Leaders |
| title_sort | too big to ignore global risk perception gaps between scientists and business leaders |
| topic | global risks collective action shared sense of risk |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001498 |
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