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Acts of god and man
Much has been written about the ups and downs of financial markets, from the lure of prosperity to the despair of crises. Yet a more fundamental and pernicious source of uncertainty exists in today's world: the traditional "insurance" risks of earthquakes, storms, terrorist attacks, and other dis...
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Contemporary studies of risks in emerging technology
With the rapid development of technologies, it becomes increasingly important for us to remain up-to-date on new and emerging technologies. This series, therefore, aims to deliver content on current and future technologies and how the young generation benefits from this.
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Corporate risk management
More than thirty leading scholars and finance practitioners discuss the theory and practice of using enterprise-risk management (ERM) to increase corporate values. ERM is the corporate-wide effort to manage the right-hand side of the balance sheeta firm's total liability structure-in ways that e...
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Disaster planning and preparedness in the hotel industry
By identifying major emergencies that have occurred in the hotel industry; investigating hotels’ preparation for emergencies in the past; and exploring how hotels manage and overcome such emergencies; this book will increase the awareness of emergency managers on how to manage and overcome the im...
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Economic risks of climate change
A landmark, data-driven assessment for decision makers intent on insuring their interests against climate change.
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Endangered economies
One of the founders of environmental economics clearly and passionately demonstrates that the only way to achieve long-term economic growth is to protect our environment. After painting a stark picture of our current state, Geoffrey Heal outlines simple solutions that have already proven effectiv...
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Essentials and assessment of risk management
The first volume of The FERMA-rimap Series describes the principles of risk and enterprise risk management (ERM) as well as the aims and benefits of an effective enterprise risk management.
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Pensions, social security, and the privatization of risk
As Social Security, workplace pensions, and individual retirement accounts become more insecure, America's pension system is in serious need of rehabilitation. In this timely volume, Mitchell A. Orenstein and his distinguished colleagues Gary Burtless, Teresa Ghilarducci, and Alicia Munnell argue...
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Pricing lives
How society’s undervaluing of life puts all of us at risk—and the groundbreaking economic measure that can fix itLike it or not, sometimes we need to put a monetary value on people's lives. In the past, government agencies used the financial "cost of death" to monetize the mortality risks of regu...
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Risk measurement and monitoring
The third volume of The FERMA-rimap Series defines approaches to modelling uncertainty and helps readers distinguish between simple, complex and matrix organisational structures, and explores operational risk management.
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Risk treatment
The second volume of The FERMA-rimap Series explores examples of organisational risk and the aims and benefits of an effective risk management strategy.
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Smart growth
Smart growth and its role in future planning and development remain confusing to many, including decision makers in the public arena who represent citizens hungry for strong policy, planning, and design solutions. The essays in this book cover the history of suburban growth, consequences of curre...
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Vuca and other analytics in business resilience
This volume brings together specialists from different disciplines and continents to discuss descriptive/diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics tools and how they might be used to investigate 'black swan' occurrences like the COVID-19-related worldwide catastrophe and the ramification...
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When insurers go bust
In the 1990s, large insurance companies failed in virtually every major market, prompting a fierce and ongoing debate about how to better protect policyholders. Drawing lessons from the failures of four insurance companies, When Insurers Go Bust dramatically advances this debate by arguing that t...
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