Risk Assessment & Management

This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria...

This advanced undergraduate/graduate textbook teaches students in finance and economics how to use R to analyse financial data and implement financial models. It demonstrates how to take publically available data and manipulate, implement models and...

The HAZOP Leader's Handbook is designed specifically to help HAZOP leaders plan and execute successful HAZOP studies, based on the author's many years of experience of participating in, observing and facilitating HAZOP studies, as well as observing,...

Every year, financial services organizations make billions of dollars worth of decisions using automated systems. For example, who to give a credit card to and the premium someone should pay for their home insurance. This book explains how the...

High-level guidance for implementing enterprise risk management in any organization A Practical Guide to Risk Management shows organizations how to implement an effective ERM solution, starting with senior management and risk and compliance professionals...

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward? Drawing on the experience of leading risk researchers and practitioners, Effective Risk Communication focuses...

The tourism industry is arguably one of the most important sources of income and foreign exchange, and is growing rapidly. However, national and international crises have huge negative economic consequences. Crisis Management in the Tourism Industry aims...

Much has been written about the ups and downs of financial markets, from the lure of prosperity to the despair of crises. Yet a more fundamental and pernicious source of uncertainty exists in today's world: the traditional "insurance" risks of...

Develop and execute a resilient climate change enterprise risk strategy that can be tailored to any organization with this essential guide for risk professionals and business leaders. Climate Change Enterprise Risk Management equips readers with a...

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This book identifies the pitfalls of applying precautionary strategies to high-stakes risks that have already become entrenched. Precaution must be applied on a precautionary basis, considering alternative paths to progress that maintain natural risk...

This book explains what is behind the wave of increasingly frequent and severe financial crises since the 1980s. It links theoretical and policy misconceptions to explain, in plain words, why and how global finance needs fixing. Otherwise, the world may...

The recent crisis in financial markets has seen a gradual erosion of risk-free asset classes. In equity markets the credit risk has reached a critical level in valuation. Here a new cost of equity method for private companies is presented based on the...

A fascinating discussion of the role played by fear in financial market panics. Professor Read demonstrates, in easy-to-understand terms, that rising market fear portends to major financial declines. He explains the science and the economics of fear and...

In today's rapidly changing and increasingly complex business world, successful risk management is the key to survival and success. Risks beyond the control of the firm affect businesses more than ever before, and the fundamental job of executives is to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013272998Author Corinne BiederFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

This helpful resource provides you with an easy-to-follow, economically sensible maintenance and workorder management program.Plant engineers and maintenance managers know from experience: All manufacturing equipment will break down, often at the worst...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997104233Author Howard WolkowitzFormat PaperbackImprint Howard S Wolkowitz LLCPublisher Howard S Wolkowitz LLCWeight(grams) 213g

The threat we face from high-stakes risk has never been higher. These challenges include environmental pollution, fragile financial systems and the threat of widespread geopolitical violence. This book suggests that a return to natural risk levels -...

Improving Banking Supervision shows how greater market discipline can be used to help improve the quality of banks and their management in a world of increasing complexity, size and innovation. The book is based on research undertaken in the Nordic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997104226Author Howard WolkowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Howard S Wolkowitz LLCPublisher Howard S Wolkowitz LLCWeight(grams) 213g

Written by a leading financial analyst, this new book provides a detailed overview of the new regulatory environment facing the financial industry. Whilst the 1980s and early 1990s focused on deregulation within the financial sector, today a key point of...

Operational risk is one of the oldest risks in the banking sector, and yet regulatory bodies including the Basle Committee are still working on a regulatory framework. Damage control measures introduced by banks have often proved ineffective. The...

Dealing with high-stakes risk potentials is dependent on getting to grips with easy to understand, yet difficult to apply, criteria for decision. With a fresh, honest approach, this book shows why scientific assessments of catastrophic risk based on...

This book proposes new methods to build optimal portfolios and to analyze market liquidity and volatility under market microstructure effects, as well as new financial risk measures using parametric and non-parametric techniques. In particular, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997104240Author Howard WolkowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Howard S Wolkowitz LLCPublisher Howard S Wolkowitz LLCWeight(grams) 218g

The book argues that a successful monetary and banking reform requires: a rollback of monetary nationalism and return to monetary internationalism; trust in the banking system with its basic functions restored; a balance between competition and...

'International Political Risk Management: Looking to the Future' is the third in a series of volumes based on the MIGA-Georgetown University Symposium in International Political Risk Management. Like its predecessors, this volume offers expert...

This book sheds light on the emotional side of risk taking behaviour using an innovative cross-disciplinary approach, mixing financial competences with psychology and affective neuroscience. In doing so, it shows the implications for market participants...

This book reviews existing risk mitigation instruments - guarantee and insurance products - primarily focusing on those offered by multilateral and bilateral official agencies, and presents with case transactions recent trends and developments that make...

This book is the first attempt to re-define objective risk. It addresses the cost of running out of capital as a generalized cost syndrome and explains how it is possible to describe this cost in such a way as to give it practical, real-life significance...

The book provides an overarching perspective on sustainability from a historical, practical and legal perspective. It offers a holistic understanding of economic and ecologic concepts. Schools for sustainable business models are introduced and discussed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631575419Author Rick NasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Business Expert PressPublisher Business Expert PressWeight(grams) 204g

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To succeed, teams must assure the quality of IoT systems. The world of technology continually moves from one hot area to another; this book considers the next explosion-of IoT-from a quality testing viewpoint. You'll first gain an introduction to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883283902Author Len BiegelFormat PaperbackImprint Brick Tower PressPublisher Brick Tower PressWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948198165Author John Harvey MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Business Expert PressPublisher Business Expert PressWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998901654Author Clarence YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint John KembreyPublisher John KembreyWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636066189Author Ram K NarayanFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999285692Author Joseph MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Joseph MitchellPublisher Joseph MitchellWeight(grams) 195g