Decision theory: general

This study develops a methodology for rapidly obtaining approximate estimates of the economic consequences from numerous natural, man-made and technological threats.

As an Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) practitioner have you ever wondered "e;How can I shape my career trajectory to reach a C-suite position in business?

This latest addition to the Financial Engineering Explained series focuses on the new standards for derivatives valuation, namely, pricing and risk management taking into account counterparty risk, and the XVA's Credit, Funding and Debt value adjustments.

Risk and reliability analysis is an area of growing importance in geotechnical engineering, where many variables have to be considered.

Is your business playing it safe—or taking the right risks?

Sebastian Moenninghoff provides an extensive overview of the status of the 'Too-Big-to-Fail' doctrine post-crisis and develops the first comprehensive framework to categorize and discuss the full range of major policy options for regulating banks.

This book examines the effectiveness of surveillance by international institutions for financial crisis prevention.

The Aspiring Thinker's Guide to Critical Thinking introduces concepts and strategies for developing essential reasoning skills and intellectual character.

This book proposes a new approach to dynamic and online risk assessment of automated and autonomous marine systems, taking into account different environmental and operational conditions.

Managing Disaster Risks to Cultural Heritage presents case studies from different regions in the world and establishes a framework for understanding, identifying, and analysing disaster risks to immovable cultural heritage.

This book aims to clarify the priorities of the Sendai Framework for the DRR 2015 - 2030, through gathering recent contributions addressing the different ways researchers define, measure, reduce, and manage risk in the challenge of the DRR.

This is the first of its kind in its topical coverage of the developments and prospects of Islamic finance education at Western higher education.

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.

Presents systems-based theory, methodology, and applications in risk modeling, assessment, and management This book examines risk analysis, focusing on quantifying risk and constructing probabilities for real-world decision-making, including engineering, design, technology, institutions, organizations, and policy.

Professional investment portfolio management is increasingly utilizing sophisticated statistical and computer techniques to better control risks and improve performance.

How do accidents and disasters occur?

Business valuation and company value play a very important role in making an informed investment decision; buying and selling shares and bonds of a company on the stock market; insurance; taxation, etc.

The Nobel Prize-winning Father of Modern Portfolio Theory returns with new insights on his classic work to help you build a lasting portfolio todayContemporary investing as we know it would not exist without these two words: Portfolio selection.

This book analyzes climate change from a societal risk perspective, considering IPCC data, harm reduction, and global impact.

The new millennium has seen a variety of parenting styles that differ greatly from previous generations.

This book examines some of the most important challenges facing administrators and other professionals in PreK-12 schools today: safety and security, hiring and evaluating members of the faculty and staff, dealing with students' academic and behavioral challenges, assessing student performance, responding to disengaged or overly engaged parents, and handling external pressures from the community.

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

The book provides a data-driven approach to real-world crew resource management (CRM) applicable to commercial pilot performance.

This volume describes risk management practices in the construction industry in selected countries, with an emphasis on developing countries and how these countries can learn from the practices in more developed ones.

This book covers recent research advances, methods and techniques, applications and projects in financial analytics, with a focus on the effects of the health crisis on banking activities and financial engineering.

In this lively and practical book, seasoned educator Jonathan Cassie shines a spotlight on gamification, an instructional approach that's revolutionizing K-12 education.

In diesem Buch lernen Sie die Vielfalt der Wechselwirkungen von Zufallsvariablen und unterschiedliche Ansätze ihrer theoretischen Beschreibung kennen.

This book provides the statistical basis for quantitative risk management by presenting and explaining the most important distributions.

Over a period of several centuries, the academic study of risk has evolved as a distinct body of thought, which continues to influence conceptual developments in fields such as economics, management, politics and sociology.

Wie ein Musikstück eine ganze Produktionsstätte lahmlegen kann, welche Gefahr der Mensch für IT‑Systeme darstellt und wie IT-Risiken finanziell bewertet werden sollten, sind Fragen, die sich Einzeln und in Summe mit diesem Buch beantworten lassen.

This volume investigates the impact of energy issues on geostrategy.

This handbook shows a firm how to repurpose its risk management in order to design and implement a corporate culture which involves all business units and individuals at each level of the hierarchy, how to analyse its risk appetite, translate it into risk policies and risk targets and distribute responsibilities and capabilities accordingly.

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.

This book offers the latest research results and predictions in data protection with a special focus on post-pandemic society.

This book takes you on a journey through post-crisis regulatory reform, highlighting the unintended consequences of some of the measures on transaction banking, a business that provides the backbone of financial markets.

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

Risk science is becoming increasingly important as businesses, policymakers and public sector leaders are tasked with decision-making and investment using varying levels of knowledge and information.

Monetary Policy, central banking, and international norms and regulations; a discussion far from new, nor applying exclusively to the world's most advanced economies.

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.

Critical Thinking, 2nd Edition is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your lifeas a professional, as a consumer, citizen, friend, or parent.

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

This book discusses the successful integration of values, ergonomy and risk management to achieve corporate strategic goals.

Full treatment, from model formulation to computational implementation, of optimization techniques that solve central problems in finance.

Suppose you're offered an opportunity to experience something that is unlike anything you have ever encountered, but that's all you know--aside from the fact that the experience is physically safe and morally acceptable.

Why is it that incredibly unlikely phenomena actually happen quite regularly and why should we, in fact, expect such things to happen?

This book uses relatable case studies to dispense practical financial advice to educators.