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Flood Hazards and Health: Responding to Present and Future Risks by Roger Few 9781844072156
RRP: $283.50$246.29Flood hazards and the risks they present to human health are an increasing concern across the globe, in terms of lives, well-being and livelihoods, and the public resources needed to plan for, and deal with, the health impacts. This book is the first... -
Governing Technology for Sustainability by Dr. Joseph Murphy 9781844073450
RRP: $188.98$164.83In a world of growing complexity and dwindling resources, the relationship between technology and sustainability is a pressing issue of concern at the highest levels. This book improves our understanding by examining the ways that people, technology and... -
Risk: The New Management Imperative in Finance by James T. Gleason 9781576600740
RRP: $110.25$72.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576600740Author James T. GleasonFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Bloomberg PressPublisher Bloomberg PressWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 238mm *... -
Facility Siting: Risk, Power and Identity in Land Use Planning by Asa Boholm 9781138990876
RRP: $92.38$80.72From dams to landfill sites, and power plants to radioactive waste repositories, the siting of facilities is a veritable minefield of conflicts involving industry, planners, authorities, NGOs and citizens. This penetrating volume examines risk, power and... -
Democratizing Technology: Risk, Responsibility and the Regulation of Chemicals by Anne Chapman 9781138967403
RRP: $92.38$80.72Democratizing Technology provides a much-needed fresh perspective on the regulation of chemicals, and an important contribution to green thinking about technology.Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP. This book is an excellent critique of the current... -
Transboundary Risk Management by Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer 9781138465718
RRP: $252.00$218.42Environmental hazards do not respect international boundaries. In this volume, distinguished international researchers make a significant contribution to the understanding and management of transboundary environmental risks. The transboundary risk topics... -
Risk, Media and Stigma: Understanding Public Challenges to Modern Science and Technology by Paul Slovic 9781138154384
RRP: $283.50$247.13The benefits of modern technology often involve health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion of technologies and aversion to certain products and substances. Amplified by the pervasive power of the media, public concern about... -
Risk Management in Project Organisations by Paul Bowen 9781138149113
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book enhances the reader's understanding of the nature and presence of risk by raising the organisation's awareness of the risks it faces, and formalising the systems needed to deal with and learn from those risks. While based on the experience of... -
Disasters: Learning the Lessons for a Safer World by David Eves 9781138144231
RRP: $252.00$217.58This is a reprint of ISBN 978-0-901357-46-5 Disasters: learning the lessons for a safer world is both a tribute to the victims of past safety failures and a warning against complacency and cutting corners today. It also recognises the achievements of... -
Risk, Surprises and Black Swans: Fundamental Ideas and Concepts in Risk Assessment and Risk Management by Terje Aven 9781138126879
RRP: $262.50$226.51Risk, Surprises and Black Swans provides an in depth analysis of the risk concept with a focus on the critical link to knowledge; and the lack of knowledge, that risk and probability judgements are based on. Based on technical scientific research,... -
Interpreting the Precautionary Principle by Timothy O'Riordan 9781138166486
RRP: $283.50$247.13Viewed from the perspective of environmental management, this study describes the implications and applications of the precautionary principle - a theory of avoiding risk even when its likelihood seems remote. This principle has been employed in the... -
The Ethics of Technological Risk by Lotte Asveld 9781138012233
RRP: $92.38$80.72'A comprehensive and important collection that includes essays by some of the leading figures in the field. ...Essential reading for anyone interested in risk assessment.' Professor Kristin Shrader-Frechette, University of Notre Dame 'The editors are to... -
Trust in Cooperative Risk Management: Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind by Timothy C. Earle 9781138012196
RRP: $62.98$55.94Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. In this book the world?s leading risk researchers explore all aspects of trust as it relates to risk... -
A Web of Prevention: Biological Weapons, Life Sciences and the Governance of Research by Brian Rappert 9781138012189
RRP: $92.38$80.72Web of Prevention provides a timely contribution to the current debate about life science research and its implications for security. It is an informative guide for both experts and the public. It is a forward-looking contribution covering both ends of... -
Loss Models: From Data to Decisions by Stuart A. Klugman 9781119523789
RRP: $272.90$236.21A guide that provides in-depth coverage of modeling techniques used throughout many branches of actuarial science, revised and updated Now in its fifth edition, Loss Models: From Data to Decisions puts the focus on material tested in the Society of... -
Dynamic Risk Assessment: The Practical Guide to Making Risk-Based Decisions with the 3-Level Risk Management Model by Stephen Asbury 9781138168534
RRP: $252.00$217.58Dynamic Risk Assessment is the key tool to support a holistic risk management framework. This book aims to help employers, managers and staff alike to understand how they can effectively integrate dynamic risk assessment into business management... -
Modernizing Insurance Regulation by John H. Biggs 9781118758717
RRP: $136.50$87.47The future of the insurance regulation begins now For those involved with the insurance industry, from investment professionals to policy makers, and regulators to legislators, tremendous change is coming. With insurance premiums constituting an... -
Whistleblowers: Incentives, Disincentives, and Protection Strategies by Frederick D. Lipman 9781118094037
RRP: $105.00$67.94Solid guidance for managing whistleblower policies in light of the new Dodd-Frank Act provisions In July 2010, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that greatly expanded whistleblower bounties in connection... -
The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management: Measurement and Theory Advancing Practice by Francis X. Diebold 9780691128832
RRP: $178.50$140.41A clear understanding of what we know, don't know, and can't know should guide any reasonable approach to managing financial risk, yet the most widely used measure in finance today--Value at Risk, or VaR--reduces these risks to a single number, creating... -
Uncertainty And Catastrophe Management: The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake And Beyond by Akira Ishikawa 9789814644952
RRP: $262.50$227.79Natural disasters, instability in the finance and banking sector, widespread social protests, and other crisis situations have increasingly become the focus of public attention. With the growing visibility of such events, accelerated by the rise and... -
Risk And Crisis Management: 101 Cases (Revised Edition) by Akira Ishikawa 9789814273893
RRP: $189.00$165.02Natural disasters, terrorist attacks, financial collapses, and other crisis situations have occupied public attention to an unprecedented degree in recent years. In the face of these events, the study of risk and crisis management is becoming more... -
Risk And Stochastics: Ragnar Norberg by Pauline Barrieu 9781786341945
RRP: $220.50$191.08with an autobiography from Ragnar NorbergThe Risk and Stochastics Conference, held at the Royal Statistical Society in April 2015, brought together academics from the worlds of actuarial science, stochastic calculus, finance and statistics to celebrate... -
Don't Tell the Boss!: How Poor Communication on Risks within Organizations Causes Major Catastrophes by Dmitry Chernov 9783031052088
RRP: $79.78$51.74After a major disaster, when investigators are piecing together the story of what happened, a striking fact often emerges: before disaster struck, some people in the organization involved were aware of dangerous conditions that had the potential to... -
Trust in Risk Management: Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind by Timothy C. Earle 9781138380837
RRP: $283.50$246.29Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. In this book the world's leading risk researchers explore all aspects of trust as it relates to risk... -
Political Risk Intelligence for Business Operations in Complex Environments by Robert Mckellar 9780367710613
RRP: $111.28$96.66Macro-level dynamics and modelling are well represented in the mainstream political risk literature. However, not many writings on the subject get their hands dirty in terms of revealing the hard, nuanced and practical work behind knowing what the issues... -
Urban Flood Risk Management: Looking at Jakarta by Christopher Silver 9780367774301
RRP: $83.98$73.63Like so many of the coastal cities in Southeast Asia (and other regions) established during European colonialism, there has been an ongoing challenge for decades dealing with the growing frequency and intensity of flooding. Jakarta’s flood problems since... -
Risk Management in Crisis: Winners and Losers during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Piotr Jedynak 9780367674557
RRP: $83.98$73.63Risk management is a domain of management which comes to the fore in crisis. This book looks at risk management under crisis conditions in the COVID-19 pandemic context. The book synthesizes existing concepts, strategies, approaches and methods of risk... -
Cognitive Risk by James Bone 9781032039091
RRP: $209.98$181.86Unique selling point: • This book combines risk management, cybersecurity and behavioral and decision science in one book with case studies, mitigation plans, and a new risk framework to address cognitive risks. Core audience: • Corporate and government... -
The Ten Commandments of Risk Leadership: A Behavioral Guide on Strategic Risk Management by Annette Hofmann 9783030887995
RRP: $94.48$85.22We as humans are prone to a variety of wired-in cognitive mistakes in the way we interpret and react to risk-related information. This is highly consequential since the cognitive biases managers are exposed to in their day-to-day business erode the... -
The Routledge Companion to Risk, Crisis and Emergency Management by C. Chet Miller 9781032475981
RRP: $88.18$77.18This volume provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the latest management and organizational research related to risk, crisis, and emergency management. It is the first volume to present these separate, but related, disciplines together... -
The Security Risk Assessment Handbook: A Complete Guide for Performing Security Risk Assessments by Douglas Landoll 9780367547479
RRP: $273.00$235.43Conducted properly, information security risk assessments provide managers with the feedback needed to understand threats to corporate assets, determine vulnerabilities of current controls, and select appropriate safeguards. Performed incorrectly, they... -
Organisational Resilience: Navigating Paradoxical Tensions by Elmar Kutsch 9780367537326
RRP: $262.50$226.51This book provides a guide to navigating the paradoxical tensions of organisational resilience and presents a framework to aid individuals and businesses to become more open-minded, flexible and mindful in managing the unexpected and anticipating crises... -
Risk Management in Public-Private Partnerships by Mohammad Heydari 9780367630829
RRP: $83.98$73.63Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a channel through which the public sector can seek alternative funding and expertise from the private sector to procure public infrastructure. Governments around the world are increasingly turning to Public-Private... -
Settling Climate Accounts: Navigating the Road to Net Zero by Thomas Heller 9783030836528
RRP: $115.48$88.75As drivers of climate action enter the fourth decade of what has become a multi-stage race, Net Zero has emerged as the dominant organizing principle. Hundreds of corporations and investors worldwide, together responsible for assets in the tens of... -
Risk Matrix: Rating Scheme Design and Risk Aggregation by Chunbing Bao
RRP: $251.98$230.06This book focuses on discussing the issues of rating scheme design and risk aggregation of risk matrix, which is a popular risk assessment tool in many fields. Although risk matrix is usually treated as qualitative tool, this book conducts the analysis... -
Risk Management: Fundamentals, Theory, and Practice in Asia by Hongmu Lee
RRP: $157.48$142.23This book outlines risk management theory systematically and comprehensively while distinguishing it from academic fields such as insurance theory. In addition, the book builds a risk financing theory that is independent of insurance theory.Until now,... -
Workplace Violence and the Facility Manager by Joseph F. Gustin
RRP: $188.98$163.99This book contains practical, comprehensive, and effective guidance and advice on the issue of workplace violence. It is written in plain language and in a non-theoretical, reader-friendly format for quick and easy reference. Topics include the risk... -
Progress-Driven Entrepreneurs, Private Equity Finance and Regulatory Issues by Zuhayr Mikdashi
$198.87Durable business performance is crucially dependent on a stakeholders' strategy and accessible entrepreneurial finance available within macro-economic and regulatory environments. These reflections on issues and policies of progress are mainly concerned... -
Foresight in Action: Developing Policy-Oriented Scenarios by Marjolein van Asselt
RRP: $283.50$246.29Assessing the future is vital in informing public policy decisions. One of the most widespread approaches is the development of scenarios, which are alternative hypothetical futures. Research has indicated, however, that the reality of how professionals... -
Uncertainty and Behaviour: Perceptions, Decisions and Actions in Business by Melanie E. Kreye
RRP: $77.68$68.31Uncertainty affects us in our everyday lives, and in a wide range of situations but how do individuals and indeed organisations respond to uncertainty and how does it impact their decision-making and actions? Based on the latest developments in academic...