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“neil a doherty”

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  • At War with the Weather

    Managing Large-Scale Risks in a New Era of Catastrophes

    by Howard C. Kunreuther, Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan, Neil A. Doherty, Martin F. Grace, Robert W. Klein ...
    Innovative, long-term strategies for reducing vulnerability to large-scale natural disasters and for providing financial support for disaster victims.The United States and other nations are facing large-scale risks at an accelerating rhythm. In 2005, three major hurricanes—Katrina, Rita, and Wilma—made landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast within a six-week period. The damage caused by these storms ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management

    Measurement and Theory Advancing Practice

    Edited by Francis X. Diebold, Neil A. Doherty, Richard J. Herring ...
    A clear understanding of what we know, don't know, and can't know should guide any reasonable approach to managing financial risk, yet the most widely used measure in finance today--Value at Risk, or VaR--reduces these risks to a single number, creating a false sense of security among risk managers, executives, and regulators. This book introduces a more realistic and holistic framework calledKuU- ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

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  • Game-Changer

    Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations

    by David McAdams ...
    A radically new, and easily learned, way to outstrategize your rivals.“The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.” So wrote Zhuge Liang, the great Chinese military strategist. He was referring to battlefield tactics, but the same can be said about any strategic situation. Even seemingly certain defeat can be turned into victory—whether in battle, business, or life—by those ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Applied Choice Analysis

    by David A. Hensher, John M. Rose, William H. Greene ...
    The second edition of this popular book brings students fully up to date with the latest methods and techniques in choice analysis. Comprehensive yet accessible, it offers a unique introduction to anyone interested in understanding how to model and forecast the range of choices made by individuals and groups. In addition to a complete rewrite of several chapters, new topics covered include ordered ... Read more

    $89.39 USD

  • Humble Consulting

    How to Provide Real Help Faster

    by Edgar H. Schein ...
    Consulting in Complex and Changing TimesOrganizations face challenges today that are too messy and complicated for consultants to simply play doctor: run a few tests, offer a neat diagnosis of the “problem,” and recommend a solution. Edgar Schein argues that consultants have to jettison the old idea of professional distance and work with their clients in a more personal way, emphasizing authentic ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Democratizing Technology

    Risk, Responsibility and the Regulation of Chemicals

    by Anne Chapman ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    Democratizing Technology provides a much-needed fresh perspective on the regulation of chemicals, and an important contribution to green thinking about technology.Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP. This book is an excellent critique of the current risk-based approach to technology. By exploring the philosophical underpinnings and the practical applications of current policy on science and technology ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Beautiful Game Theory

    How Soccer Can Help Economics

    by Ignacio Palacios-Huerta ...
    The first book to use the world's most popular sport to test economic theories and document novel human behaviorA wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields. Research has also shown that economics can provide insight into many aspects of sports, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Economic Consequence Analysis of Disasters

    The E-CAT Software Tool

    by Adam Rose, Zhenhua Chen, Fynnwin Prager, Nathaniel Heatwole, Eric Warren, Dan Wei, Samrat Chatterjee ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This study develops a methodology for rapidly obtaining approximate estimates of the economic consequences from numerous natural, man-made and technological threats. This software tool is intended for use by various decision makers and analysts to obtain estimates rapidly. It is programmed in Excel and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to facilitate its use. This tool is called E-CAT (Economic ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Handbook of Risk Management

    Implementing a Post-Crisis Corporate Culture

    by Philippe Carrel ...
    Series series The Wiley Finance Series
    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 book explains how to identify risk exposure across ... Read more

    $80.00 USD

  • Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience from a Societal, Environmental and Security Perspective

    by Adam Rose ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume presents an economic framework for the analysis of resilience in relation to societal, environmental, and personal security perspectives. It offers a rigorous definition of economic resilience and an operational metric, and it shows how they can be applied to measuring and applying the concept to private and public decision making. Major dimensions of resilience and their implications ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Rethinking Reputational Risk

    How to Manage the Risks that can Ruin Your Business, Your Reputation and You

    by Anthony Fitzsimmons, Prof Derek Atkins ...
    A company's reputation is one of its most valuable assets, and reputational risk is high on the agenda at board level and amongst regulators. Rethinking Reputational Risk explains the hidden factors which can both cause crises and tip an otherwise survivable crisis into a reputational disaster.Reputations are lost when the perception of an organization is damaged by its behaviour not meeting ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services

    From Regulation to Innovation

    by Philipp Aerni ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services. The author combines field research and insights from the multi-stakeholder dialogue at the FAO to analyze the gap between the predictions provided by theory and the corresponding outcomes in practice. In particular, the author challenges the theory behind Payments for ... Read more

    $49.49 USD