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Global systems scientist David Korowicz shares his thinking on how on the coronavirus, electro-magnetic pulse (EMP), and other events can have non-obvious wider-spread impacts on the entire world.
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Previous Title: Coronavirus in Context: Public Narratives -- David Korowicz & Aaron Wissner | Local Future
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About David Korowicz
David is working on understanding large-scale systemic risk and supporting policy and social responses. Up until February 2020, he was director of Risk and Response at the Geneva Global Initiative, where his work was aimed at encouraging and supporting large-scale preparedness and contingency planning for intensifying large-scale systemic risks.
He is a systems thinker, physicist and human systems ecologist, interested in the challenges to our societies arising from the transformation of risk. This fits into his broader interests into the evolution, stability, and collapse of complex societies. He is an advocate for a re-appraisal of risk and the need for societal resilience, instability preparedness, and catastrophic shock planning.
He argues we are on the cusp of an inevitable major societal transformations that will largely outrun our capacity to manage or control. The implications will be prolonged and severe. We can choose to face such consequences head-on, and work to support what’s best in our human story in times that threaten to expose the worst. Understanding, anticipation and preparedness is part of this.
David has been a pioneer in drawing upon ideas from fields such as ecology, complexity and systems science to shed light on emergent risks, vulnerabilities and uncertainties. He has written influential studies on the the financial and socio-economic implications of a peak in global oil production; the propagation of financial and monetary shocks through trade networks and critical infrastructures; pandemic shocks and the limits to growth. Currently, he is developing a Globally Integrated Systemic Risk framework.
Korowicz has been an invited contributor on the socio-economic implications of a severe pandemic for USAID/ US Pacific Fleet ASEAN preparedness, and to the pandemic working group of the Global Agenda Council on Complexity & Risk (World Economic Forum); presented on contingency planning for large-scale socio-economic stress and shocks; and taught a masters course Human Systems Ecology & Systemic Risk at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. David was a ministerial appointment to the council of Comhar, Ireland’s sustainable development commission. He spent a number of years on the executive committee of Feasta, The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability - a think-tank. David also made a significant contribution to the Foresight Analysis Nexus.
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About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
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Streamed Live to the World Wide Web: 20200623 Aaron Wayne Wissner
Global systems scientist David Korowicz shares his thinking on how on the coronavirus, electro-magnetic pulse (EMP), and other events can have non-obvious wider-spread impacts on the entire world.
Previous talks by Korowicz:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu9390d_J5Mf6XR0aJk2w4TafyFLJiuTQ
Previous Title: Coronavirus in Context: Public Narratives -- David Korowicz & Aaron Wissner | Local Future
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About David Korowicz
David is working on understanding large-scale systemic risk and supporting policy and social responses. Up until February 2020, he was director of Risk and Response at the Geneva Global Initiative, where his work was aimed at encouraging and supporting large-scale preparedness and contingency planning for intensifying large-scale systemic risks.
He is a systems thinker, physicist and human systems ecologist, interested in the challenges to our societies arising from the transformation of risk. This fits into his broader interests into the evolution, stability, and collapse of complex societies. He is an advocate for a re-appraisal of risk and the need for societal resilience, instability preparedness, and catastrophic shock planning.
He argues we are on the cusp of an inevitable major societal transformations that will largely outrun our capacity to manage or control. The implications will be prolonged and severe. We can choose to face such consequences head-on, and work to support what’s best in our human story in times that threaten to expose the worst. Understanding, anticipation and preparedness is part of this.
David has been a pioneer in drawing upon ideas from fields such as ecology, complexity and systems science to shed light on emergent risks, vulnerabilities and uncertainties. He has written influential studies on the the financial and socio-economic implications of a peak in global oil production; the propagation of financial and monetary shocks through trade networks and critical infrastructures; pandemic shocks and the limits to growth. Currently, he is developing a Globally Integrated Systemic Risk framework.
Korowicz has been an invited contributor on the socio-economic implications of a severe pandemic for USAID/ US Pacific Fleet ASEAN preparedness, and to the pandemic working group of the Global Agenda Council on Complexity & Risk (World Economic Forum); presented on contingency planning for large-scale socio-economic stress and shocks; and taught a masters course Human Systems Ecology & Systemic Risk at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. David was a ministerial appointment to the council of Comhar, Ireland’s sustainable development commission. He spent a number of years on the executive committee of Feasta, The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability - a think-tank. David also made a significant contribution to the Foresight Analysis Nexus.
korowiczhumansystems.com
About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
aaronwissner.com
facebook.com/aaron.wissner.9
youtube.com/user/newculture
lifeishnowish.blogspot.com
Streamed Live to the World Wide Web: 20200623 Aaron Wayne Wissner
