‘Partitioning’ is another concept that might be useful.
Islands as refuge (basically same idea as the city idea above), this paper specifically mentions pandemic as threat and island as solution (ie risk first approach) and also considers nuclear (and other) winter scenarios too (see the Supplementary material): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33886124/
I note Alexey’s comment here too, broadly agree with his islands/refuge thinking.
The literature on group selection and species selection in biology might prove useful. You seem to be on to it tangentially with the butterfly example.
‘Partitioning’ is another concept that might be useful.
Islands as refuge (basically same idea as the city idea above), this paper specifically mentions pandemic as threat and island as solution (ie risk first approach) and also considers nuclear (and other) winter scenarios too (see the Supplementary material): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33886124/
I note Alexey’s comment here too, broadly agree with his islands/refuge thinking.
The literature on group selection and species selection in biology might prove useful. You seem to be on to it tangentially with the butterfly example.