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...

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...