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Author : Patrick Caplan
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745314635
A range of distinguished anthropologists and sociologists re-examine the concept of risk in contemporary societies.
Author : Eugene Rosa,Aaron McCright,Ortwin Renn
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439902593
Risk is a part of life. How we handle uncertainty and deal with potential threats influence decision making throughout our lives. In The Risk Society Revisited, Eugene A. Rosa, Ortwin Renn, and Aaron M. McCright offer the first book to present an integrated theory of risk and governance. The authors examine our sociological understanding of risk and how we reconcile modern human conditions with our handling of risk in our quest for improved quality of life. They build a new framework for understanding risk—one that provides an innovative connection between social theory and the governance of technological and environmental risks and the sociopolitical challenges they pose for a sustainable future. Showing how our consciousness affects risk in the decisions we make—as individuals and as members of a democratic society—The Risk Society Revisited makes an important contribution to the literature of risk research.
Author : Lauretta Marie Burke,World Resources Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Coral reef ecology
ISBN : OCLC:707730664
Author : Simon Hubbert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119953029
Everything you need to know in order to manage risk effectively within your organization You cannot afford to ignore the explosion in mathematical finance in your quest to remain competitive. This exciting branch of mathematics has very direct practical implications: when a new model is tested and implemented it can have an immediate impact on the financial environment. With risk management top of the agenda for many organizations, this book is essential reading for getting to grips with the mathematical story behind the subject of financial risk management. It will take you on a journey—from the early ideas of risk quantification up to today's sophisticated models and approaches to business risk management. To help you investigate the most up-to-date, pioneering developments in modern risk management, the book presents statistical theories and shows you how to put statistical tools into action to investigate areas such as the design of mathematical models for financial volatility or calculating the value at risk for an investment portfolio. Respected academic author Simon Hubbert is the youngest director of a financial engineering program in the U.K. He brings his industry experience to his practical approach to risk analysis Captures the essential mathematical tools needed to explore many common risk management problems Website with model simulations and source code enables you to put models of risk management into practice Plunges into the world of high-risk finance and examines the crucial relationship between the risk and the potential reward of holding a portfolio of risky financial assets This book is your one-stop-shop for effective risk management.
Author : W. Clapton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137396372
The English School of International Relations has traditionally maintained that international society cannot accommodate hierarchical relationships between states. This book employs a unique theoretical and conceptual approach challenging this view and arguing that hierarchies are formed on Western states' need to manage globalised risks.
Author : John Tulloch,Deborah Lupton
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761947590
Risk and Everyday Life examines how people respond to, experience and think about risk as part of their everyday lives. Bringing together original empirical research and sociocultural theory, the authors examine how people define risk and what risks they see as affecting them, for example in relation to immigration, employment and family life. They emphasise the need to take account of the cultural dimensions of risk and risk-taking to understand how risk is experienced as part of everyday life and consider the influence that gender, social class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, occupation, geographical location and nationality have on our perceptions and experience of risk. Drawing on the work of key theorists - Ulrich Beck, Scott Lash, and Mary Douglas - the authors examine and critique theories of risk in the light of their own research and presents case studies which show how notions of risk interact with day-to-day concerns.
Author : Felix H. Kloman,H. Felix Kloman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781450045681
Author : Ana Paula Cusolito,William F. Maloney
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464813627
Productivity has again moved to center stage in two critical academic and policy debates: the slowing of global growth amid spectacular technological advances, and developing countries’ frustratingly slow progress in catching up to the technological frontier. Productivity Revisited brings together the new conceptual advances of 'second-wave' productivity analysis that have revolutionized the study of productivity, calling much previous analysis into question while providing a new set of tools for approaching these debates. The book extends this analysis and, using unique data sets from multiple developing countries, grounds it in the developing-country context. It calls for rebalancing away from an exclusive focus on misallocation toward a greater focus on upgrading firms and facilitating the emergence of productive new establishments. Such an approach requires a supportive environment and various types of human capital--managerial, technical, and actuarial--necessary to cultivate new transformational firms. The book is the second volume of the World Bank Productivity Project, which seeks to bring frontier thinking on the measurement and determinants of productivity to global policy makers.
Author : Barbara Adam,Ulrich Beck,Joost Van Loon
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 076196469X
Risk society and beyond traces the evolution of Ulrich Beck's ideas as expressed in Risk Society (1992) and expands into previously unforeseen risk areas, such as genetics and cyberspace.
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292705428
This report explores the benefits of Asia and the Pacific’s coral reefs, outlines the myriad risks they face from climate change, pollution, and development, and considers how nature-positive investments can finance their protection and restoration. Outlining how over 85% of the region’s reefs are under threat, the report looks at the first ever insurance policy taken out on coral reefs in Mexico and considers how parametric insurance can be adopted in the region. Focused on managing degraded and disaster-damaged reefs, it shows how innovative products including catastrophe bonds and blue carbon credit can protect critical ecosystem services and enhance coastal resilience.
Author : Barbara H. Harthorn,Laury Oaks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780313039201
Examines the diverse uses and abuses of risk by social actors across a wide range of cultural, ethnic, and geographical locales. The introductory chapter by the two co-editors analyzes and contextualizes current scholarly debates on the social, cultural, and political construction of risk. It is followed by an overview on the anthropology of harm reduction that outlines an innovative framework for culturally informed risk analysis. The remaining nine chapters are organized into three sections, The Cultivation of Fear, Perceptions of Health, Safety, and Hazard: Risk Makers and Risk Takers, and Regulating Risk and the Public's Health. The book aims to address a set of questions of theoretical and practical importance to anthropologists, sociologists, public health scholars and professionals, and public policy advocates, among others. These questions include: How do individuals conceptualize and respond to risk? Can risk be a tool of empowerment for individuals and communities who define themselves as at-risk? How has risk figured recently in the production of health inequality? Has the social contract to provide care in its broadest sense expanded or contracted around issues of risk? Are risk and the imperative to adhere to risk warnings used by experts as a means of social control? The volume's contributors, medical anthropologists and sociologists, provide rich, grounded ethnographic case material on the processes at work in everyday social life around the globe, as individuals and groups struggle to make saense of the health risks and inequities in their lives and communities. Authors address an array of urgent health concerns, ranging from food safety to environment, new technologies to infectious disease, in such contrasting locales as the US, Europe, South and Southeast Asia, and North Africa, and across diverse ethnicities and social classes.
Author : Alan France,Ross Homel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134019397
Deals with the development of prevention policies and approaches that involve intervention 'early' in the lives of children, young people and their families. This book explores evidence that has been emerging from longitudinal and developmental prevention research.
Author : Jonathan Reuvid
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749466619
Risk management is the identification, assessment and prioritization of risks, and effective risk management is a vital consideration when looking to safeguard your company's commercial future and deal with the latest regulatory requirements. Managing Business Risk will enable your company to maintain the clearest possible controls on risks that may threaten your business while at the same time delivering transparent reporting to your stakeholders.The book examines the key areas of risk you need to consider in today's competitive and complex business market. Drawing on expert advice from leading risk consultants, lawyers and regulatory authorities, it shows you how to protect your business against a rising tide of business risks.If you don't build risk controls into the structure of your company, from the boardroom down, then your business could be vulnerable to a number of threats - both internal and external. Identify and neutralise them now, and give your company a competitive advantage.
Author : Esther Eidinow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199277780
A study of the question tablets from the oracle at Dodona and binding-curse tablets from across the ancient Greek world, These tablets reveal the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, and help us to understand some of the ways in which they managed risk and uncertainty in their daily lives.
Author : Steven Vertovec
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317989301
The field of anthropology of migration and multiculturalism is booming. Throughout its hundred-odd year history, studies of migration and diverse or ‘plural’ societies have arguably been both marginal and central to the discipline of Anthropology. However, recent years have witnessed the rapid growth of anthropological studies concerning these topics. This has particularly been the case since the 1970s, when anthropologists developed a keen interest in the subject of ethnicity, especially in post-migration communities. Since the 1990s, migrant transnationalism has become one of the most fashionable topics. There is still much to do in research and theory surrounding this field, not least with regard to contemporary public debates around multiculturalism, immigration and ‘integration’ policy. This book presents essays pointing toward a number of possible new directions – both theoretical and methodological – for anthropological inquiry into migration and multiculturalism, including innovative ways of examining diversity discourses, urban conditions, social complexities, scales of analysis, transnational marriages, entangled politics and interwoven cultures. This book was published as a special issue of the Ethnic and Racial Studies.