Managing Risk in Extreme Environments

Duncan Martin

ISBN 10: 0749449454 / ISBN 13: 9780749449452

Editore: Kogan Page Ltd, GB, 2007

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When it really is a matter of life and death, how do risk management strategies stand up to the pressure?Do such radical situations have a practical relevance to risk management policies in today's business and financial worlds?Managing Risk in Extreme Environments looks at real-life examples - from epidemics to earthquakes - to showcase risk management strategies which have been tested in adverse conditions and shown to succeed. The author then demonstrates how the lessons learnt from each can be effectively applied in business.Including first-hand interviews, and a summary of core risk management concepts, this is essential reading for all risk management professionals and business managers.

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• Titolo: Managing Risk in Extreme Environments
• Editore: Kogan Page Ltd, GB
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0749449454
• ISBN 13: 9780749449452
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 288 grammi

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Riassunto

When it really is a matter of life and death, how do risk management strategies stand up to the pressure? And do these radical situations have a practical relevance for risk management policies in today’s business and financial worlds?

Managing Risk in Extreme Environments looks at real-life examples and case studies in order to extract risk management practices that have been tested in adverse conditions and shown to succeed. Duncan Martin interviews experts who have first-hand experience managing crises we know well: the SARS outbreak, the flooding of New Orleans, insurgent attacks in Iraq, the nuclear reactor explosion in Chernobyl. Distilling risk management lessons from these and other emergencies, he shows how these lessons can be transferred to the less extreme operational environments in which most of us work.

Informazioni sugli autori

Duncan Martin is an expert in credit modelling who currently works in risk management at the Royal Bank of Scotland Wholesale.  He has been a consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton and Oliver Wyman risk consulting services, and Director of Strategic Risk at DrKW (Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein).  He was educated at Cambridge University and at the University of Pennsylvania.

Duncan Martin is an expert in credit modelling who currently works in risk management at the Royal Bank of Scotland Wholesale. He has been a consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton and Oliver Wyman risk consulting services, and Director of Strategic Risk at DrKW (Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein). He was educated at Cambridge University and at the University of Pennsylvania.