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For boards and executives, high-quality and transparent information
is critical to allow effective decision-making. Emerging risks are
increasingly challenging issues, both in terms of threats and
growth opportunities; not least since the science pertaining to
these risks tends to be contested. Emerging Risks: A Strategic
Management Guide restores the constructive dialogue between the
business professional and the expert/scientist community, essential
if companies are to anticipate, plan ahead and exploit leading-edge
ideas. It provides insights into some of the major emerging risks
of the 21st century and then guides organizations on how to
approach and manage those risks proactively in the wake of new
regulation, governance and enterprise-wide risk management. The
topics covered include: nanotechnologies, covering the industrial
revolution of the 21st Century; new information and communication
technologies (NICT), discussing the infrastructure of the future;
electromagnetic fields (EMF) and their debated health impact;
chemical substances/REACH, a regulation with major economic and
environmental stakes and an example of emerging risk management;
biological risk and its on-going need for international
surveillance; supply chain, a top management priority; and country
risk, for which security and corporate social responsibility (CSR)
are growing issues. The authors assess and propose a process for
managing emerging risks and the strategies that need to be put in
place, drawing on examples of best practice.
For boards and executives, high-quality and transparent information
is critical to allow effective decision-making. Emerging risks are
increasingly challenging issues, both in terms of threats and
growth opportunities; not least since the science pertaining to
these risks tends to be contested. Emerging Risks: A Strategic
Management Guide restores the constructive dialogue between the
business professional and the expert/scientist community, essential
if companies are to anticipate, plan ahead and exploit leading-edge
ideas. It provides insights into some of the major emerging risks
of the 21st century and then guides organizations on how to
approach and manage those risks proactively in the wake of new
regulation, governance and enterprise-wide risk management. The
topics covered include: nanotechnologies, covering the industrial
revolution of the 21st Century; new information and communication
technologies (NICT), discussing the infrastructure of the future;
electromagnetic fields (EMF) and their debated health impact;
chemical substances/REACH, a regulation with major economic and
environmental stakes and an example of emerging risk management;
biological risk and its on-going need for international
surveillance; supply chain, a top management priority; and country
risk, for which security and corporate social responsibility (CSR)
are growing issues. The authors assess and propose a process for
managing emerging risks and the strategies that need to be put in
place, drawing on examples of best practice.
This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the
supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by
focusing on the workings of the bowels and viscera that so obsessed
writers and thinkers during the long eighteenth-century. These
inner organs and the digestive process acted as counterpoints to
politeness and other modes of refined sociability, drawing
attention to the deeper workings of the self. Moving beyond recent
studies of luxury and conspicuous consumption, where dysfunctional
bowels have been represented as a symptom of excess, this book
seeks to explore other manifestations of the visceral and to
explain how the bowels played a crucial part in eighteenth-century
emotions and perceptions of the self. The collection offers an
interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on entrails and
digestion by addressing urban history, visual studies, literature,
medical history, religious history, and material culture in
England, France and Germany. -- .
This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the
supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by
focusing on the workings of the bowels and viscera that so obsessed
writers and thinkers during the long eighteenth-century. These
inner organs and the digestive process acted as counterpoints to
politeness and other modes of refined sociability, drawing
attention to the deeper workings of the self. Moving beyond recent
studies of luxury and conspicuous consumption, where dysfunctional
bowels have been represented as a symptom of excess, this book
seeks to explore other manifestations of the visceral and to
explain how the bowels played a crucial part in eighteenth-century
emotions and perceptions of the self. The collection offers an
interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on entrails and
digestion by addressing urban history, visual studies, literature,
medical history, religious history, and material culture in
England, France, and Germany. -- .
This edited collection presents a selection of essays on the
history of Irish masculinities. Beginning with representations of
masculinity in eighteenth-century drama, economics, and satire, and
concluding with work on the politics of masculinity post
Good-Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, the collection advances
the importance of masculinities in our understanding of Irish
history and historiography. Using a variety of approaches,
including literary and legal theory as well as cultural, political
and local histories, this collection illuminates the differing
forms, roles, and representations of Irish masculinities. Themes
include the politicisation of Irishmen in both the Republic of
Ireland and in Northern Ireland; muscular manliness in the Irish
Diaspora; Orangewomen and political agency; the disruptive
possibility of the rural bachelor; and aspirational constructions
of boyhood. Several essays explore how masculinity is constructed
and performed by women, thus emphasizing the necessity of
differentiating masculinity from maleness. These essays demonstrate
the value of gender and masculinities for historical research and
the transformative potential of these concepts in how we envision
Ireland's past, present, and future.
This volume of essays explores the multiple forms and functions of
reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. This century saw
a dramatic transition in literacy levels and in the education and
language practices of the Irish population, yet the processes and
full significance of these transitions remains critically under
explored. This book traces how understandings of literacy and
language shaped national and transnational discourses of cultural
identity, and the different reading communities produced by
questions of language, religion, status, education and audience.
Essays are gathered under four main areas of analysis: Literacy and
Bilingualism; Periodicals and their readers; Translation,
transmission and transnational literacies; Visual literacies.
Through these sections, the authors offer a range of understandings
of the ways in which Irish readers and writers interpreted and
communicated their worlds. List of contributors: Rebecca Anne Barr,
Sarah-Anne Buckley, Muireann O'Cinneide, Niall O Ciosain, Maire Nic
an Bhaird, Liam Mac Mathuna, James Quinn, Nicola Morris, Elizabeth
Tilley, Darragh Gannon, Florry O'Driscoll, Michele Milan, Nessa
Cronin and Stephanie Rains.
This volume of essays explores the multiple forms and functions of
reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. This century saw
a dramatic transition in literacy levels and in the education and
language practices of the Irish population, yet the processes and
full significance of these transitions remains critically under
explored. This book traces how understandings of literacy and
language shaped national and transnational discourses of cultural
identity, and the different reading communities produced by
questions of language, religion, status, education and audience.
Essays are gathered under four main areas of analysis: Literacy and
Bilingualism; Periodicals and their readers; Translation,
transmission and transnational literacies; Visual literacies.
Through these sections, the authors offer a range of understandings
of the ways in which Irish readers and writers interpreted and
communicated their worlds. List of contributors: Rebecca Anne Barr,
Sarah-Anne Buckley, Muireann O'Cinneide, Niall O Ciosain, Maire Nic
an Bhaird, Liam Mac Mathuna, James Quinn, Nicola Morris, Elizabeth
Tilley, Darragh Gannon, Florry O'Driscoll, Michele Milan, Nessa
Cronin and Stephanie Rains.
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