Globally Networked Risks and How to Respond

Dirk Helbing demonstrates that “Systemic failures and extreme events are consequences of the highly interconnected systems and networked risks humans have created. When networks are interdependent this makes them even more vulnerable to abrupt failures.” He surveys key concepts in complexity and network science, draws upon examples of financial meltdowns and crowd disasters, and ultimately advocates an interdisciplinary “Global Systems Science… to make the theory of complex systems applicable to the solution of global-scale problems.”