Tag: Risk

Free Download Happy Apocalypse: A History of Technological Risk by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
English | June 18th, 2024 | ISBN: 183976550X | 272 pages | True EPUB | 4.42 MB
How risk, disasters and pollution were managed and made acceptable during the Industrial Revolution

Free Download Extinctopedia: Discover what we have lost, what is at risk, and how we can preserve the diversity of our fragile planet (Smithsonian) by Serenella Quarello, Alessio Alcini, Margaret Greenan
English | March 12, 2024 | ISBN: 163655072X | 64 pages | MOBI | 31 Mb
A Smithsonian collaboration-this journey of discovery through the animal kingdom, past and present, calls on us to educate ourselves and take action to save the amazing diversity of our planet.

Free Download Enterprise Risk Management Models: Focus on Sustainability (Springer Texts in Business and Economics) by David L. Olson, Desheng Wu
English | October 29, 2023 | ISBN: 3662680378 | 259 pages | MOBI | 9.34 Mb
This textbook, now in its fourth edition, serves as a comprehensive guide to learning various aspects of risk, encompassing supply chain management, artificial intelligence, and sustainability. It demonstrates a wide range of operations research models that have been successfully applied to enterprise supply chain risk management. Each chapter of the book can function as a standalone module focusing on a specific topic, offering dedicated examples, definitions, and discussion notes.

Free Download Amphibian Species in Environmental Risk Assessment Strategies (Issues in Toxicology) by Marcelo L Larramendy, Guillermo Eli Liwszyc
English | December 18, 2023 | ISBN: 1837671524 | 290 pages | PDF | 43 Mb
With the expansion of human settlements and the environmental changes brought about by human activity and pollutants, toxicology and risk assessment of amphibian species has become increasingly of interest to toxicologists involved in environmental research.

Free Download Advances in Risk-Informed Technologies: Keynote Volume (ICRESH 2024) (Risk, Reliability and Safety Engineering) by Prabhakar V. Varde, Manoj Kumar, Mayank Agarwal
English | January 8, 2024 | ISBN: 9819991218 | 177 pages | MOBI | 9.57 Mb
This book presents the latest research in the areas of development and application of risk-informed and risk-based technologies. The book discusses how advances in computational technologies, availability of accumulated experience and data on design, operations, maintenance and regulations, new insights in human factor modelling and development of new technologies, such as physics-of-failure modelling, prognostics and health management, have paved the way for implementation of risk and reliability tools and methods. The book will be useful for researchers, academicians, and engineers, particularly the field engineers, designers and regulators working on complex engineering systems.

Free Download Advanced Analytical Methods for Climate Risk and ESG Risk Management: A Concrete Approach to Modeling by Jorge R. Sobehart
English | August 19th, 2024 | ISBN: 139422009X | 496 pages | True EPUB | 14.76 MB
A holistic view on climate risk and practical ways to model and measure it

Free Download A Theory of Insurance and Gambling: Replacing Risk Preferences with Quid pro Quo by John A. Nyman
English | February 1, 2024 | ISBN: 019768792X | True EPUB/PDF | 272 pages | 4.35/12.6 MB
In 1948, Milton Friedman and L. J. Savage suggested that risk preferences explain the demand for insurance and gambling-a theory that is still almost universally accepted by economists today. If you were to ask almost any economist why people purchase insurance, they would say it is because most people are "risk averse," or equivalently, "prefer certainty of losses." If asked to explain why people gamble, they would say it is because some people are "risk seekers."

Free Download A Theory of Insurance and Gambling: Replacing Risk Preferences with Quid pro Quo by John A. Nyman
English | February 1, 2024 | ISBN: 019768792X | True EPUB/PDF | 272 pages | 4.35/12.6 MB
In 1948, Milton Friedman and L. J. Savage suggested that risk preferences explain the demand for insurance and gambling-a theory that is still almost universally accepted by economists today. If you were to ask almost any economist why people purchase insurance, they would say it is because most people are "risk averse," or equivalently, "prefer certainty of losses." If asked to explain why people gamble, they would say it is because some people are "risk seekers."

Free Download Rick E. Ingram, Joseph M. Price, "Vulnerability to Psychopathology: Risk across the Lifespan"
English | 2000 | pages: 545 | ISBN: 1572306033 | PDF | 2,6 mb
Vulnerability has become the focal point of much theory and research in the study of psychopathology. Until now, however, work on child and adult disorders has largely been conducted separately, with little cross-communication of knowledge on risk factors across the lifespan. This important work brings together leading clinical researchers to lay the foundations for an integrative lifespan perspective on biological, psychological, and social-contextual processes of vulnerability. Demonstrated are ways that the vulnerability construct can lead to genuine progress in understanding not only the genesis of psychological symptoms, but also their prevention and treatment. For each of the major disorders, a chapter on the condition as it appears in childhood and adolescence is followed by a chapter on adulthood. Contributors review theories of vulnerability and resilience, current findings, and clinical implications of the research. A third chapter on each disorder, written jointly by the authors of the previous two, highlights commonalities and differences in child and adult psychopathology and identifies key questions that remain unanswered.

Free Download Oren Falk, "Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland: This Spattered Isle"
English | ISBN: 0198866046 | 2021 | 374 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past. Yet historians have been slow to subject ‘violence’ itself to conceptual analysis. What aspects of the past do we designate violent? To what methodological assumptions do we commit ourselves when we employ this term? How may we approach the category ‘violence’ in a specifically historical way, and what is it that we explain when we write its history? Astonishingly, such questions are seldom even voiced, much less debated, in the historical literature.