Decision theory: general

Product recalls affect thousands of products globally each year, impacting millions of customers and causing severe consequences for companies.

This book offers a practical presentation of stochastic partial differential equations arising in physical applications and their numerical approximation.

Despite occupational diseases in construction contributing to a significant proportion of fatalities, and permanent and temporary incapacities, they have not gained as much attention as occupational injuries from practitioners and researchers.

Researchers in special education have been developing a knowledge base of evidence-based practices that improve the outcomes of students with disabilities.

Causal analytics methods can revolutionize the use of data to make effective decisions by revealing how different choices affect probabilities of various outcomes.

Parents, lawmakers, supervisors, and unions are among the many constituencies that demand influence, if not control, of the educational process.

This book comprises the selected proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Natural Hazards (NATHAZ'22), Angra do Heroismo, Terceira Island, Azores, 2022.

There is much specialist material written about different elements of managing risks of hazardous industries, such as hazard identification, risk analysis, and risk management.

It is no secret that women are increasingly controlling wealth.

This book offers 14 contributions that examine key questions in bank decision-taking,constitution of confidence in banks and risk management practices from Early Modernity to the twentieth century.

Legal risk covers all areas of business where regulation and the law impact on operations and decisions.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of international and domestic tourism and sharply focused attention on the importance of tourist health, safety and wellbeing like never before.

Written by international authorities on critical thinking, this book details an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and applicable to any and every situation in which human thinking is necessary.

Can Schools Survive?

Operational risk is the risk of loss from inadequate or failed internal processes, people, and systems or from external events.

Kids today are in a media-saturated environment.

This unique book provides a platform for resilience research, combining knowledge from various domains, such as genetics, primatology, archeology, geography, physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, medicine, ecology, psychology, risk management and systems science, in order to examine specific concepts.

There is a plethora of literature on the topic of penetration testing, hacking, and related fields.

We as humans are prone to a variety of wired-in cognitive mistakes in the way we interpret and react to risk-related information.

Public misperception of radiological risk consistently directs limited resources toward managing minimal or even phantom risks at great cost to government and industry with no measurable benefit to overall public health.

This book provides insight into domino effects in industrial chemical sites and process industries.

This book provides a practical and intuitive view of how European banks manage asset-liability mismatch risk from both a practitioner and supervisory perspective.

Quantitative methods have revolutionised the area of trading, regulation, risk management, portfolio construction, asset pricing and treasury activities, and governmental activity such as central banking.

This book outlines risk management theory systematically and comprehensively while distinguishing it from academic fields such as insurance theory.

This book contains the papers presented at the XXX International Congress INGEGRAF, "e;Digital Engineering, its application in Research, Development and Innovation"e;, held on 24-25 June 2021 in Valencia, Spain.

Now in its fifth edition, this book offers a detailed yet concise introduction to the growing field of statistical applications in finance.

This is the Proceedings of the International Workshop Heritagebot 2017 that was held in Cassino, Italy in September 2017.

This book analyzes the security of critical infrastructures such as road, rail, water, health, and electricity networks that are vital for a nation's society and economy, and assesses the resilience of these networks to intentional attacks.

Effective problem solving contributes to school leaders' ability to create lasting improvement in classroom and organizational practice.

The Thinker's Guide for Students on How to Study and Learn a Discipline empowers students to take control of their own learning by asking questions, challenging assumptions, drawing upon reliable information, and exploring alternative opinions.

This book on Interest Rate Derivatives has three parts.

The Environmental Management Revision Guide: For the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management is the perfect revision aid for students preparing to take their NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management.

In this book the author develops a new approach to uncertainty in economics, which calls for a fundamental change in the methodology of economics.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 2nd International Conference on Dam Safety Management and Engineering (ICDSME 2023), organized by the Malaysian National Committee on Large Dams (MYCOLD), Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID) and Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN).

Addressing a need for innovative solutions to challenges facing organisations today, this book explores the concept of Knowledge Risk Management (KRM), outlining how this new approach can be implemented in the banking sector.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of international and domestic tourism and sharply focused attention on the importance of tourist health, safety and wellbeing like never before.

This book aims to form part of the growing literature on the banking system in developing countries in its aim to show the levels of stability in the banking sector of small economies.

'Full of compelling advice on how to lead more effectively by choosing your words more wisely' - ADAM GRANT, author of Originals and Give and TakeYour words matter more than you thinkMost of us use the language we inherited from a time when workers worked with their hands and managers worked with their heads.

This book is in honor of Yasuhiko Takahara, a first-class researcher who has been active for some 50 years at the global level in systems research.

The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 modernised the UK's approach to disaster and emergency management, taking into account the kinds of threats the country faces in the 21st century, including terrorist threats and threats to the environment.

After her school wins the coveted United States National Secondary Education Award, a school principal embarks upon an educational odyssey.

Risk assessment is the key to successful management of health and safety at work.

As leaders increasingly understand the importance of good safety practice to support their business objectives, safety and health practitioners develop better tools and solutions.

How can you manage the complex threats that can cause financial, operational and reputational damage to the business?

This book investigates individual companies' and industries' supply chain risk management approaches to identify risk drivers and verify effective risk-reduction measures and business continuity plans.

This is a reprint of ISBN 978-0-901357-46-5Disasters: 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.

This book provides an analysis of various sources and forms of systemic financial risk.