In this work, we propose the concept of safety, which encompasses risk, vulnerability and resilience, fundamental concepts that are needed to consider when discussing the risks that threaten the communities. We argue that the safety index that we propose captures the most relevant issues about...

The emergence of cascaded risks we face at the Anthropocene raises new problems and demands for action. Climate change can be seen as the most critical world risk: it reflects the effect of human actions that promote several risks, it potentiates disasters and catastrophes caused by natural...

The Anthropocene is a new phase in the development of the planet. The transformations on the Earth System that are already visible in terms of droughts, heat waves, dying oceans, unbreathable air, wildfires, among other disruptive events that are increased by impact of actions that led to the...

The purpose of knowledge is to understand our world in the context of an evolving body of ideas, actually in a physical Universe in continuous transformation. Thus, science, a privileged form of enquiry, should be a homogeneous and interconnected endeavour spanning from physics and chemistry to...

How does fiction help to build a consensual narrative of the time we live? How necessary is this narrative and how close it should resemble the reality? Since its inception, fiction can state and frame ideas and concepts through the refutation of the established aesthetical, ethical,...

Risks have always been present throughout human history, however today they are qualitatively different, as many of them are anthropic (human-made). The fact that people are exposed to dangers for which they have no decision- making capacity depended on of knowledge they often do not have in...