[PDF] Risk Revisited eBook

Author : Patrick Caplan
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 2000-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745314631

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A range of distinguished anthropologists and sociologists re-examine the concept of risk in contemporary societies.

Author : John Monahan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0190286016

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The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries. Legislatures, courts, and the public have come to expect that mental health professionals will protect them from violent acts by persons with mental disorders. Yet for three decades research has shown that clinicians' unaided assessments of "dangerousness" are barely better than chance. Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence tells the story of a pioneering investigation that challenges preconceptions about the frequency and nature of violence among persons with mental disorders, and suggests an innovative approach to predicting its occurrence. The authors of this massive project -- the largest ever undertaken on the topic -- demonstrate how clinicians can use a "decision tree" to identify groups of patients at very low and very high risk for violence. This dramatic new finding, and its implications for the every day clinical practice of risk assessment and risk management, is thoroughly described in this remarkable and long-anticipated volume. Taken to heart, its message will change the way clinicians, judges, and others who must deal with persons who are mentally ill and may be violent will do their work.

Author : Barbara Adam
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761964698

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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 : Vanessa Le Leslé
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1475502656

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In this paper, we provide an overview of the concerns surrounding the variations in the calculation of risk-weighted assets (RWAs) across banks and jurisdictions and how this might undermine the Basel III capital adequacy framework. We discuss the key drivers behind the differences in these calculations, drawing upon a sample of systemically important banks from Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. We then discuss a range of policy options that could be explored to fix the actual and perceived problems with RWAs, and improve the use of risk-sensitive capital ratios.

Author : J. Besson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2007-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230605044

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The book is an interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays, with an editorial introduction, on a range of territories in the Commonwealth, Francophone, and Hispanic Caribbean. The authors focus on land and development, providing fresh perspectives through a collection of international contributing authors.

Author : Josh Lerner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226473031

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This volume offers contributions to questions relating to the economics of innovation and technological change. Central to the development of new technologies are institutional environments and among the topics discussed are the roles played by universities and the ways in which the allocation of funds affects innovation.

Author : Chennat Gopalakrishnan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317443810

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Classic Papers in Natural Resource Economics Revisited is the first attempt to bring together a selection of classic papers in natural resource economics, alongside reflections by highly regarded professionals about how these papers have impacted the field. The seven papers included in this volume are grouped into five sections, representing the five core areas in natural resource economics: the intertemporal problem; externalities and market failure; property rights, institutions and public choice; the economics of exhaustible resources; and the economics of renewable resources. The seven papers are written by distinguished economists, five of them Nobelists. The papers, originally published between 1960 and 2000, addressed key issues in resource production, pricing, consumption, planning, management and policy. The original insights, fresh perspectives and bold vision embodied in these papers had a profound influence on the readership and they became classics in the field. This is the first attempt to publish original commentaries from a diverse group of scholars to identify, probe and analyse the ways in which these papers have impacted and shaped the discourse in natural resource economics. Although directed primarily at an academic audience, this book should also be of great appeal to researchers, policy analysts, and natural resource professionals, in general. This book was published as a series of symposia in the Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research.

Author : W. Clapton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137396377

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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.