Tag: Risk

Free Download The Leader’s Guide to Managing Risk: A Proven Method to Build Resilience and Reliability (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZWN9SLQ | 2023 | 8 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 248 MB
Author: K. Scott Griffith
Narrator: K. Scott Griffith
Be prepared for the dangerous and largely unknown risks that threaten your business and learn how to survive and thrive when uncertainty hits. Leaders today must navigate their teams and organizations through unprecedented levels of uncertainty. It feels like every year there is some-game changing technology or catastrophe that gives rise to a "new normal" and sends businesses scrambling for how to rethink themselves to operate under these new conditions. In The Leader’s Guide to Managing Risk, K. Scott Griffith, a former airline pilot, socio-technical physicist, and author of the first independently audited high reliability and just culture model, offers practical and proven methods to build processes that will withstand the winds of uncertainty while driving success. By understanding that organizations are people operating within systems, leaders of all kinds will build reliability and resiliency into their culture and set up their business to withstand the next big changes that come their way.

Free Download The Essentials of Risk Management (Third Edition) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHSZCS21 | 2023 | 21 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 607 MB
Author: Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai, Robert Mark
Narrator: Michael Butler Murray
The "bible" of risk management-fully updated for an investing landscape dramatically altered by social and technological upheavals. When it was first published, The Essentials of Risk Management became an instant classic in risk management. Now, the authors provide a comprehensively updated and revised edition to help you succeed in a world rocked by unprecedented changes. Combining academic research with real-world applications, this bestselling guide provides the expert insights that has made it so popular for so many years, covering the most effective ways to measure and transfer credit risk, increase risk-management transparency, and implement an organization-wide enterprise risk management approach. In addition, it covers a wide range of new issues, including: fallout from the COVID pandemic; new emerging risks associated with digital finance; the effect of climate change on risk management; and game-changing new technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence, and distributed ledger technology. The definitive resource for quantifying risk versus return, The Essentials of Risk Management delivers everything you need to safeguard your investments in today’s economy.

Free Download Earthquake and Disaster Risk: Decade Retrospective of the Wenchuan Earthquake by Yong-Gang Li
English | EPUB | 2019 | 259 Pages | ISBN : 9811380147 | 96.8 MB
This book presents review papers and research articles focusing on the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China, discussing cross-disciplinary and multiple thematic aspects of modern seismological, geophysical, geological and stochastic methodology and technology. Resulting from international and regional earthquake research and disaster mitigation collaborations, and written by international authors from multiple institutions and disciplines, it describes methods and techniques in earthquake science based on investigations of the Wenchuan earthquake. It also includes extensive reference lists to aid further research.

Free Download Disaster Risk Reduction in Agriculture by Mukhtar Ahmed, Shakeel Ahmad
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 563 Pages | ISBN : 981991762X | 70.4 MB
This book is related to disaster risk reduction in agriculture particularly under changing climate. Climate change refers to significant, long-term changes in the global climate. There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate. Human activity is the principal cause. The planets average surface temperature has risen to about 1oC since the late 19th century and most of the warming occurred in the past 40 years.

Free Download Carole LeBlanc, "Demystifying Climate Risk Volume I"
English | ISBN: 1527500136 | 2017 | 195 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book is a distillation of the First Annual International Technical Workshop on Climate Risk held in 2016 in Wells, Maine, USA. It is organized into three major themes, namely: environmental, health and societal impacts; the special case of Africa; and advances in education. The volumes premise is that, long before the 2015 Paris Agreement, many professionals from diverse fields were working to solve the problems of human-caused climate change. The 1987 Montreal Protocol is now in support of a key emission reduction goal of the Agreement. It was time for the seasoned leaders who implement the Protocol, the worlds most successful treaty for atmospheric protection, to share their knowledge and wisdom with the next generation before that expertise was lost. The purpose of bringing these communities of practice together is to leverage the many successes to date to inspire future innovations through lessons learned; ensure that new or updated regulations are timely communicated and economically executed; and identify opportunities for related sustainable development.

Free Download Critical Thinking in the Sustainable Rehabilitation and Risk Management of the Built Environment: CRIT-RE-BUILT. Proceedings of the International Conference, Iași, Romania, November 7-9, 2019 by Ancuța Rotaru
English | PDF | 2021 | 603 Pages | ISBN : 3030611175 | 150 MB
This proceedings book presents contributions to the International Conference on Critical Thinking in the Sustainable Rehabilitation and Risk Management of the Built Environment – CRIT-RE-BUILT – held in Iași, Romania, November 7-9, 2019.

Free Download Contemporary Ideas on Ship Stability: Risk of Capsizing by Vadim L. Belenky
English | EPUB | 2019 | 931 Pages | ISBN : 3030005143 | 118.4 MB
This book contains a selection of research papers presented at the 11th and 12th International Ship Stability Workshops (Wageningen, 2010 and Washington DC, 2011) and the 11th International Conference on Stability of Ships and Ocean Vehicles (Athens, 2012). The book is directed toward the ship stability community and presents innovative ideas concerning the understanding of the physical nature of stability failures and methodologies for assessing ship stability. Particular interest of the readership is expected in relation with appearance of new and unconventional types of ships; assessment of stability of these ships cannot rely on the existing experience and has to be based on the first principles. As the complexity of the physical processes responsible for stability failure have increasingly made time-domain numerical simulation the main tool for stability assessment, particular emphasis is made on the development an application of such tools.

Free Download Baard Herman Borge, "Children and Youth at Risk in Times of Transition: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 3111009637 | 2023 | 340 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 4 MB
Children and youth belong to one of the most vulnerable groups in societies. This was the case even before the current humanitarian crises around the world which led millions of people and families to flee from wars, terror, poverty and exploitation. Minors have been denied human rights such as access to education, food and health services. They have been kidnapped, sold, manipulated, mutilated, killed, and injured. This has been and continues to be the case in both developed and developing countries, and it does not look as if the situation will improve in the near future. Rather, current geopolitical developments, political and economic uncertainties and instabilities seem to be increasing the vulnerability of minors, especially in the wars and armed conflicts currently being waged not only in Europe, but on almost every continent. How can risks children and youth are exposed to in times of transition be reduced? Which role do state agencies, non-governmental organisations, as well as children’s coping strategies play in mitigating the vulnerabilities of minors?

Free Download Atlas of Global Change Risk of Population and Economic Systems by Peijun Shi (Editor-in-Chief)
English | EPUB | 2022 | 300 Pages | ISBN : 9811666903 | 543.3 MB
This book is and illustrates the spatial distribution of the global change risk of population and economic systems with the maps of environment, global climate change, global population and economic systems, and global change risk. The risks of global change are mapped at 0.25 degree grid unit. The risk results and their contribution rates of the world at national level are unprecedentedly derived and ranked. The book can be a good reference for researchers and students in the field of global climate change and natural disaster risk management, as well as risk managers and enterpriser to understand the global change risk of population and economic systems.

Free Download Active Learning to Minimize the Possible Risk of Future Epidemics by KC Santosh , Suprim Nakarmi
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 107 Pages | ISBN : 9819974410 | 8 MB
Future epidemics are inevitable, and it takes months and even years to collect fully annotated data. The sheer magnitude of data required for machine learning algorithms, spanning both shallow and deep structures, raises a fundamental question: how big data is big enough to effectively tackle future epidemics? In this context, active learning, often referred to as human or expert-in-the-loop learning, becomes imperative, enabling machines to commence learning from day one with minimal labeled data. In unsupervised learning, the focus shifts toward constructing advanced machine learning models like deep structured networks that autonomously learn over time, with human or expert intervention only when errors occur and for limited data-a process we term mentoring. In the context of Covid-19, this book explores the use of deep features to classify data into two clusters (0/1: Covid-19/non-Covid-19) across three distinct datasets: cough sound, Computed Tomography (CT) scan, and chest x-ray (CXR). Not to be confused, our primary objective is to provide a strong assertion on how active learning could potentially be used to predict disease from any upcoming epidemics. Upon request (education/training purpose), GitHub source codes are provided.