Quantifying and Controlling Catastrophic Risks

• Author : B. John Garrick,Robert F. Christie
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2008
• Total pages : 351
• ISBN : 0123746019

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Summary : One of the first books to address both natural and human generated disasters, topics include events such as pandemic diseases, climate changes, major hurricanes, super earthquakes, mega tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, industrial accidents and terrorist attacks. Case studies appear at the end of the book allowing engineers to see how these ...

• Author : Various Authors
• Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
• Release Date : 2009-10-13
• Total pages : 2200
• ISBN : 0123746019

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Summary : Compiled by more than 300 of the world's leading professionals, visionaries, writers and educators, this is THE first-stop reference resource and knowledge base for finance. QFINANCE covers an extensive range of finance topics with unique insight, authoritative information, practical guidance and thought-provoking widsom. Unmatched for in-depth content, QFINANCE contains more than 2 ...

• Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release Date : 2010-07-01
• Total pages : 240
• ISBN : 0123746019

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Summary : Approaches to Enterprise Risk Management is a multi-author book written by leading experts in the field of risk management including Aswath Damodoran, John C. Groth and David Shimko. It is a valuable tool that enables you to assess the potential business threats, both from within your organization and from external ...

• Author : Marvin Rausand,Stein Haugen
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2020-03-03
• Total pages : 784
• ISBN : 0123746019

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Summary : Introduces risk assessment with key theories, proven methods, and state-of-the-art applications Risk Assessment: Theory, Methods, and Applications remains one of the few textbooks to address current risk analysis and risk assessment with an emphasis on the possibility of sudden, major accidents across various areas of practice—from machinery and manufacturing ...

• Author : Gernot Wagner,Martin L. Weitzman
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2016-04-19
• Total pages : 272
• ISBN : 0123746019

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Summary : How knowing the extreme risks of climate change can help us prepare for an uncertain future If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if ...

• Author : Raimund M. Kovacevic,Georg Ch. Pflug,Maria Teresa Vespucci
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2013-11-27
• Total pages : 505
• ISBN : 0123746019

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Summary : This book presents an overview of the risks involved in modern electricity production, delivery and trading, including technical risk in production, transportation and delivery, operational risk for the system operators, market risks for traders, and political and other long term risks in strategic management. Using decision making under uncertainty as ...

• Author : Ovidiu Cretu,Robert B. Stewart,Terry Berends
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2011-06-15
• Total pages : 288
• ISBN : 0123746019

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Summary : The essential risk assessment guide for civil engineering, design, and construction Risk management allows construction professionals to identify the risks inherent in all projects, and to provide the tools for evaluating the probabilities and impacts to minimize the risk potential. This book introduces risk as a central pillar of project ...

• Author : Michael R Greenberg
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release Date : 2016-09-13
• Total pages : 320
• ISBN : 0123746019

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Summary : Risk analysis is not a narrowly defined set of applications. Rather, it is widely used to assess and manage a plethora of hazards that threaten dire implications. However, too few people actually understand what risk analysis can help us accomplish and, even among experts, knowledge is often limited to one ...

• Author : Gorazd Meško,Dejana Dimitrijević,Charles B. Fields
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2011-02-08
• Total pages : 393
• ISBN : 0123746019

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Summary : This volume presents reflections on a variety of environmental issues in South-Eastern Europe from diverse contemporary scientific disciplines. The contributions address many crucial issues including national environmental policies, economic instruments for preventing crimes against the environment, international waste trafficking, threats to air, water and soil due to mining, management of ...

• Author : Sven Ove Hansson,Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2016-05-26
• Total pages : 353
• ISBN : 0123746019

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Summary : ​This book describes argumentative tools and strategies that can be used to guide policy decisions under conditions of great uncertainty. Contributing authors explore methods from philosophical analysis and in particular argumentation analysis, showing how it can be used to systematize discussions about policy issues involving great uncertainty. The first part ...

• Author : John C. Pine
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2014-09-10
• Total pages : 338
• ISBN : 0123746019

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Summary : The impacts of natural and man-made disasters have increased exponentially over the past few decades. Moreover, with our global interconnectedness and the growing scale of disasters, today's catastrophic disasters can have regional, national, and even global economic consequences. Following in the tradition of the successful first edition, Hazards Analysis: Reducing ...

• Author : M.S. Nikulin,Nikolaos Limnios,N. Balakrishnan,Waltraud Kahle,Catherine Huber-Carol
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2010-07-08
• Total pages : 416
• ISBN : 0123746019

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Summary : This volume is a collection of invited chapters covering recent advances in accelerated life testing and degradation models. The book covers a wide range of applications to areas such as reliability, quality control, the health sciences, economics and finance. It is an excellent reference for researchers and practitioners in applied ...

• Author : Alison Theaker
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2020-10-26
• Total pages : 424
• ISBN : 0123746019

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Summary : The Public Relations Handbook, 6th edition provides an engaging, in-depth exploration of the dynamic and ever-evolving public relations industry. Split into four parts exploring key conceptual themes in public relations, the book offers an overview of topics including strategic public relations, politics and the media; media relations in the social ...

• Author : Alison Theaker,Heather Yaxley
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2012-08-21
• Total pages : 400
• ISBN : 0123746019

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Summary : This introduction to the critical practice of public relations offers clear guidance on successful techniques and practices within a professional context that reflects the reality of contemporary careers in the discipline....

• Author : Bruce A. Arrigo
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release Date : 2014-07-17
• Total pages : 1216
• ISBN : 0123746019

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Summary : Federal, state, county, and municipal police forces all have their own codes of conduct, yet the ethics of being a police officer remain perplexing and are often difficult to apply in dynamic situations. The police misconduct statistics are staggering and indicate that excessive use of force comprises almost a quarter ...