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.
A new book to help senior executives and boards get smart about risk management The ability of businesses to survive and thrive often requires unconventional thinking and calculated risk taking.
This volume of Eurasian Studies inBusiness and Economics focuses on latest results from research in Banking andFinance, Accounting and Corporate Governance, Growth and Development, alongwith a focus on the Energy sector.
Today's financial sector faces multiple challenges stemming from ecological, societal, and technological risks such as climate change, political extremism, and cyber-attacks.
This book reviews the latest risk-based techniques to protect national interests from invasive pests and pathogens before, at and within national borders.
How to Help Your School Thrive Without Breaking the Bank will help you improve your school without investing in externally developed, expensive, and time-consuming reform programs or initiatives.
Das Buch zeigt, wie Unternehmen durch die Anwendung der stochastischen Szenariosimulation ein wirksames und effizientes Risikomanagement umsetzen können.
This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 1st International Conference on Dam Safety Management and Engineering (ICDSME 2019), 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).
This book gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of quality control and improvement of bridges and structures, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the 1st Conference of the European Association on Quality Control of Bridges and Structures (EUROSTRUCT 2021), held in Padua, Italy on August 29 - September 1, 2021.
Faced with the compliance requirements of increasingly punitive information and privacy-related regulation, as well as the proliferation of complex threats to information security, there is an urgent need for organizations to adopt IT governance best practice.
This book analyses the raising of capital imposed by regulatory and supervisory constraints for the soundness and survival of banks in Europe, highlighting critical issues.
Risk communication helps companies, governments and institutions minimise disputes, resolve issues and anticipate problems before they result in an irreversible breakdown in communications.
While aviation fatalities have thankfully fallen dramatically in recent years, the phenomena of complexity and cognitive bias have been shown to be factors in many accidents.
Within a technological context, this volume addresses contemporary theories of consciousness, subjective experience, the creation of meaning and emotion, and relationships between cognition and location.
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.
Dieses Buch liefert eine fundierte Bestandsaufnahme zur Geschichte des Umgangs mit Non-Financial Risks und leitet daraus nützliche Empfehlungen für das künftige Risikomanagement ab.
"Wie war es möglich, dass an einem durch nichts ausgezeichneten Punkt am Rande einer eher durchschnittlichen Galaxie die Funken des Geistes zu sprühen begannen?
Most approaches that contribute to the design of life-critical systems almost only consider nominal situations where procedures can be developed and used to achieve satisfactory operations.
On Fire, Under Fire, or Fired: Superintendents in the Pandemic provides a unique view into the unprecedented challenges and transformative opportunities superintendents faced during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic and examines the lessons that can be learned moving forward.
This volume of Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics includes selected papers from the 24th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Bangkok.
Corporate Governance is a text which considers the problems surrounding governance and proposes solutions to help restore investor confidence in the corporate world.
This book provides a methodology, grounded in prior research, for analyzing supply chain vulnerabilities and determining appropriate strategic sourcing approaches firms can adopt for managing risk and ensuring supply chain resilience.
The assessment of cancer risk is a complex process that requires the examination of etiological agents, real-world environments, and individual rates of exposure.
This book analyses the raising of capital imposed by regulatory and supervisory constraints for the soundness and survival of banks in Europe, highlighting critical issues.
Safety Management Systems and their Origins: Insights from the Aviation Industry presents different perspectives on SMS to better decode what it means as a safety approach and what it implicitly conveys beyond safety.
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.
If you are a beginner to the world of options, Mastering Options-Effective and Profitable Strategies for Traders is essential for learning the basics of option strategies that will enable you to start making consistently handsome earnings.
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.
