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This book addresses researchers, practitioners, and policy makers interested in understanding the financial implications of mega-disaster risks as well as in seeking possible solutions with regard to governance, the allocation of financial risk, and resilience.

This book examines the role of risk management in the recent financial crisis and applies lessons from there to the national security realm.

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 textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of the legal arrangement of the corporation, the instruments and institutions through which capital can be raised, the management of the flow of funds through the individual firm, and the methods of dividing the risks and returns among the various contributors of funds.

This book serves as a technical yet practical risk management manual for professionals working with water and wastewater organizations.

This book provides an overview of predictive methods demonstrated by open source software modeling with Rattle (R') and WEKA.

A multi-disciplinary exploration of how we can help decision makers to deliberate and make better decisions.

Yield management has always been considered a teclinique for large companies, whether these be airlines, railroad, car rental or hotel companies.

This book explores the regulation of sustainable finance within the European Union, examining its background and development at a practical level.

This book is written to empower risk professionals to turn analytics and models into deployable solutions with minimal IT intervention.

Assembling a high profile group of scholars and practitioners, this book investigates the interplay of forecasting; warnings about, and responses to, known and unknown transnational risks.

Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organisation studies and philosophy, this book addresses how the perception, communication and management of risk is shaped by culturally informed and socially embedded knowledge and experience.

This book provides an extensive and critical assessment of the current regulatory and supervisory framework of investment services in the European Union (EU) and proposes alternative institutional structures.

This global handbook provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of shadow banking, or market-based finance as it has been recently coined.

This book is a one-stop reference for practitioners and academics in finance, business and economics, providing a holistic reference to the international agriculture business.

As in Improving Your Leadership Intelligence A Field Book for K-12 Leaders, Maulding Green and Leonard have in, Improving Your Leadership Intelligence: Volume 2Scenarios in K-12Leadership, provided the reader with an ongoing series of situational judgement test (SJT) scenarios, used ina process that assists both novice and experienced leaders to grow their Leadership Intelligence.

This book introduces readers to the key provisions of the URRAN-based technical asset management system - a methodology for managing resources and risks by analyzing and ensuring the required levels of reliability and safety in Russia's railway transport facilities.

How to Read a Paragraph introduces the importance of purposeful skilled reading and lays out methods by which to develop close reading skills using the tools of critical thinking.

This book combines the topics of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Lubrication Degradation Mechanisms (LDM) with the goal of allowing the reader to develop the disciplined thought process for getting to the root causes of each of the degradation mechanisms.

With the recent debacle of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the crypto trading company Alameda Research, the importance of comprehending the security and regulations of Web3, cryptocurrency, and blockchain projects has been magnified.

This book discusses new determinants for optimal portfolio selection.

This book discusses and chronicles various types of manufacturing processes, including casting and molding, machining, joining, shearing, and forming.

This book provides cases and analyses of causes and consequences of difficulty in downsizing and exiting in the electronics industry during the "e;two lost decades"e; in Japan.

This book explores the application of ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) factors in banking credit.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to knowledge risk management (KRM) as well as methods, tools and cases to address knowledge risk management issues in both the public and private sector.

In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, there have been many criticisms weighed against private credit rating agencies.

Air Transportation Industry considers the influence of political, legal, economic, social, and technological factors on the developments in the industry.

Use this reference for IT security practitioners to get an overview of the major standards and frameworks, and a proposed architecture to meet them.

With the Brexit referendum more than 50% of the British population voted in favour of the UK leaving the EU.

When the Nuclear Safety Commission in Japan reviewed safety-design guidelines for nuclear plants in 1990, the regulatory agency explicitly ruled out the need to consider prolonged AC power loss.

Detoxing America Schools: From Social Agency to Academic Urgency examines the issue of toxicity in public education institutions.

Introduces the reader to a wide variety of research results on pricing techniques and revenue management.

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This book explores the profound impact of digital transformation on enterprise risk management.

This book presents a comprehensive exploration of contemporary issues in corporate governance and sustainability within the Malaysian context.

The media landscape has changed, and children and adolescents now face a tsunami of entertainment and information.

Natural disasters, instability in the finance and banking sector, widespread social protests, and other crisis situations have increasingly become the focus of public attention.

This companion to the bestselling Introduction to Health and Safety at Work will help you prepare for the written assessments on the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety (2019 specification).

The US is the world's largest capital market.

The 'good life' for households has passed.

This book discusses non-bank financial intermediation as an alternative or complement to formal banking.

Actionable and adaptable guidance for extending the proven Data Wise process from the classroom to entire school systems

Whoholds the power in financial markets?

This book comprises chapters authored by experts who are professors and researchers in internationally recognized universities and research institutions.

The Thinker's Guide to Engineering Reasoningapplies critical thinking concepts to the field of engineering.

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

This book focuses squarely on the problem of saving local government in the context of extraordinary financial challenges being faced across the globe.

Capital Requirements, Disclosure, and Supervision in the European Insurance Industry provides an in-depth analysis of Solvency II's issues by combining both a theoretical approach and evidence of the empirical implications and effects on the European insurance industry.

Since the publication of the second edition in 2013, there has been an increasing interest in asset management globally, as evidenced by a series of international standards on asset management systems, to achieve excellence in asset management.

This book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of natural hazard warnings, drawing on perspectives from the social sciences, physical sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as disaster studies to articulate a distinction between traditional warnings and what might be called interdisciplinary warnings.