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Whether man-made or naturally occurring, large-scale disasters can
cause fatalities and injuries, devastate property and communities,
savage the environment, impose significant financial burdens on
individuals and firms, and test political leadership. Moreover,
global challenges such as climate change and terrorism reveal the
interdependent and interconnected nature of our current moment:
what occurs in one nation or geographical region is likely to have
effects across the globe. Our information age creates new and more
integrated forms of communication that incur risks that are
difficult to evaluate, let alone anticipate. All of this makes
clear that innovative approaches to assessing and managing risk are
urgently required. When catastrophic risk management was in its
inception thirty years ago, scientists and engineers would provide
estimates of the probability of specific types of accidents and
their potential consequences. Economists would then propose risk
management policies based on those experts' estimates with little
thought as to how this data would be used by interested parties.
Today, however, the disciplines of finance, geography, history,
insurance, marketing, political science, sociology, and the
decision sciences combine scientific knowledge on risk assessment
with a better appreciation for the importance of improving
individual and collective decision-making processes. The essays in
this volume highlight past research, recent discoveries, and open
questions written by leading thinkers in risk management and
behavioral sciences. The Future of Risk Management provides
scholars, businesses, civil servants, and the concerned public
tools for making more informed decisions and developing long-term
strategies for reducing future losses from potentially catastrophic
events. Contributors: Mona Ahmadiani, Joshua D. Baker, W. J. Wouter
Botzen, Cary Coglianese, Gregory Colson, Jeffrey Czajkowski, Nate
Dieckmann, Robin Dillon, Baruch Fischhoff, Jeffrey A. Friedman,
Robin Gregory, Robert W. Klein, Carolyn Kousky, Howard Kunreuther,
Craig E. Landry, Barbara Mellers, Robert J. Meyer, Erwann
Michel-Kerjan, Robert Muir-Wood, Mark Pauly, Lisa Robinson, Adam
Rose, Paul J. H. Schoemaker, Paul Slovic, Phil Tetlock, Daniel
Vastfjall, W. Kip Viscusi, Elke U. Weber, Richard Zeckhauser.
The revised and expanded edition includes new information, new
teaching resources, and perspectives gained in the last eight
years, as well as the General Convention resolutions of 2015.
Beyond Business as Usual is full of resources for forming the
vestry as a learning community. It deals with the "soft" side of
leadership that enables the pastor and vestry together to journey
along the leadership path. Each chapter can be read and reviewed at
a series of vestry meetings or as part of a vestry retreat, and
includes questions for group and individual discussion. The book
also contains resources for vestries, based upon different
preferred learning styles, for the formation part of the vestry
meeting or retreat.
In the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, executives and
policymakers are motivated than ever to reduce the vulnerability of
social and economic systems to disasters. Most prior work on
critical infrastructure protection has focused on the
responsibilities and actions of government rather than on those of
the private sector firms that provide most vital services. Seeds of
Disaster, Roots of Response is the first systematic attempt to
understand how private decisions and operations affect public
vulnerability. It describes effective and sustainable approaches
both business strategies and public policies to ensure provision of
critical services in the event of disaster. The authors are
business leaders from multiple industries and experts in fields as
diverse as risk analysis, economics, engineering, organization
theory and public policy. The book shows the necessity of deeply
rooted collaboration between private and public institutions, and
the accountability and leadership required to go from words to
action.
As America debates the merits of government-provided health
insurance, it is important to note that the U.S. government is
already the largest insurance provider in the world. For decades,
it has used taxpayer funds to support the world's largest health
care insurance programs (Medicare and Medicaid) as well as the
biggest pension and disability insurance system (Social Security).
The recent economic crisis has prompted the government to
dramatically increase its insurance role by assuming large equity
positions in private firms and bailing out troubled mortgages
buyers and sellers. Do these public insurance programs improve
social welfare? Or does government intervention risk moral hazard
and result in inefficient programs that would be better handled by
the private sector? In Public Insurance and Private Markets,
leading economists critically examine the government's role in
insuring against pension fund shortfalls, crop losses, property
damage from floods and other natural catastrophes, bank failure,
and terrorism. Jeffrey R. Brown and his coauthors argue that
government intervention must always be economically justified; that
risk adjusted premiums are essential; that the true taxpayer burden
for public insurance programs must be recognized; and that private
markets are capable of transferring risk without government
intervention. Poorly designed government insurance programs result
in misallocation of resources, excessive risk-taking, and
potentially enormous burdens on current and future taxpayers.
Public Insurance and Private Markets offers market-based guidelines
for the proper scope of government intervention and the design of
public insurance programs guidelines that will benefit the U.S.
economy and protect the resources of future generations.
The intention of the VIIth International Symposium on the Facial
Nerve was to create a platform for an extensive exchange of
knowledge and scientific infor mation between clinicians and basic
research workers. This aim could only be realized on the basis of a
common interest in the facial nerve, which unites the
interdisciplinary scientific efforts of otologists, neurosurgeons,
facial plastic surgeons, neurologists, neurophysiologists, and
neuroanatomists. Therefore, a meeting of this kind remains in its
aim to exchange ideas over scientific disciplines which do not come
unique together normal conditions. The symposium has been held
every four years since 1966. The VIIth sym posium was preceded by
symposia in Stockholm (1966), Osaka (1970), ZUrich (1976), Los
Angeles (1980), Bordeaux (1984) and Rio de Janeiro (1988), and
marked an important milestone in the continuously developing
knowledge about the facial nerve, its physiology, disorders,
diagnostics and treatment. In contrast to the previous meetings
this symposium extended in vitations to both clinicians and basic
research workers. More than 350 scientists from 25 different
nations met in Cologne, Germany, in June 1992 and their high-level
presentations contributed to the overwhelming success of this
international meeting. The symposium took place in the vicinity of
the old cllthedral of Cologne, itself a vivid symbol of
never-ending efforts to create something perfect and lasting."
Featuring more than 75 pages of new information and updated content
throughout, this "New York Times" bestseller gives readers the
power not just to know what to do to keep fit, but to understand
why and how.
Whether man-made or naturally occurring, large-scale disasters can
cause fatalities and injuries, devastate property and communities,
savage the environment, impose significant financial burdens on
individuals and firms, and test political leadership. Moreover,
global challenges such as climate change and terrorism reveal the
interdependent and interconnected nature of our current moment:
what occurs in one nation or geographical region is likely to have
effects across the globe. Our information age creates new and more
integrated forms of communication that incur risks that are
difficult to evaluate, let alone anticipate. All of this makes
clear that innovative approaches to assessing and managing risk are
urgently required. When catastrophic risk management was in its
inception thirty years ago, scientists and engineers would provide
estimates of the probability of specific types of accidents and
their potential consequences. Economists would then propose risk
management policies based on those experts' estimates with little
thought as to how this data would be used by interested parties.
Today, however, the disciplines of finance, geography, history,
insurance, marketing, political science, sociology, and the
decision sciences combine scientific knowledge on risk assessment
with a better appreciation for the importance of improving
individual and collective decision-making processes. The essays in
this volume highlight past research, recent discoveries, and open
questions written by leading thinkers in risk management and
behavioral sciences. The Future of Risk Management provides
scholars, businesses, civil servants, and the concerned public
tools for making more informed decisions and developing long-term
strategies for reducing future losses from potentially catastrophic
events. Contributors: Mona Ahmadiani, Joshua D. Baker, W. J. Wouter
Botzen, Cary Coglianese, Gregory Colson, Jeffrey Czajkowski, Nate
Dieckmann, Robin Dillon, Baruch Fischhoff, Jeffrey A. Friedman,
Robin Gregory, Robert W. Klein, Carolyn Kousky, Howard Kunreuther,
Craig E. Landry, Barbara Mellers, Robert J. Meyer, Erwann
Michel-Kerjan, Robert Muir-Wood, Mark Pauly, Lisa Robinson, Adam
Rose, Paul J. H. Schoemaker, Paul Slovic, Phil Tetlock, Daniel
Vastfjall, W. Kip Viscusi, Elke U. Weber, Richard Zeckhauser.
In the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, executives and
policymakers are motivated than ever to reduce the vulnerability of
social and economic systems to disasters. Most prior work on
critical infrastructure protection has focused on the
responsibilities and actions of government rather than on those of
the private sector firms that provide most vital services. Seeds of
Disaster, Roots of Response is the first systematic attempt to
understand how private decisions and operations affect public
vulnerability. It describes effective and sustainable approaches
both business strategies and public policies to ensure provision of
critical services in the event of disaster. The authors are
business leaders from multiple industries and experts in fields as
diverse as risk analysis, economics, engineering, organization
theory and public policy. The book shows the necessity of deeply
rooted collaboration between private and public institutions, and
the accountability and leadership required to go from words to
action.
In early 2001, Kari Grady Grossman and her husband adopted a little
boy from Cambodia, and in turn adopted his country, discovering a
personal connection to a little known and long-suffering people.
Feeling the need to give back to the beautiful, struggling country
of their son's birth, they decided to have a school built in his
honor in the rural countryside. But the building was just the
beginning.
"Teacher Absent Often" is a frequent phrase uttered by students
and their parents to describe the dismal state of Cambodia's
education system. In "Teacher Absent Often" (Youth Edition), Kari
weaves fascinating stories of learning to empower one poor,
marginalized, illiterate community to sustain a school for their
children. She reveals something every developed world do-gooder
should know-how to help people in the way they want to be helped,
not the way we think they should be helped. To read "Teacher Absent
Often" is to feel the call to action.
Esta guia tiene las respuestas que necesitas
para convertirte en un experto de tu propio cuerpo
Que tan bien conoces tu cuerpo? Entre tu espejo de cuerpo entero
y las clases de biologia en el bachillerato, lo mas probable es que
creas que sabes mucho sobre el cuerpo humano. Pero aunque vivimos
en una epoca en la que estamos tan obsesionados con nuestros
cuerpos como con los peinados de los famosos, la realidad es que
muchos sabemos muy poco acerca de lo que se mueve, se revuelve y
palpita en el interior de este milagroso sistema de anatomia.
Cuando se trata de longevidad y calidad de vida, es importante
entender los sistemas internos para saber llevar una vida mas
saludable, mas joven y mejor.
"TU: El Manual de Instrucciones" reta tus ideas preconcebidas de
como funciona y envejece el cuerpo humano. Aprenderas sobre todos
los sistemas y organos que bombean la sangre, digieren los
alimentos y nos permiten recordar informacion clave. Descubriras
como empiezan las enfermedades y como afectan al cuerpo, y
encontraras recomendaciones sobre como prevenir y vencer los
estados que amenazan tu calidad de vida.
Esta guia incluye consejos sobre ejercicios, normas
nutricionales, cambios sencillos en tu estilo de vida y enfoques
alternativos, y ofrece un metodo facil y completo para cambiar tu
vida y asi ahuyentar el envejecimiento. Ademas, te ofrece La Dieta
del Manual de Instrucciones -- un plan de alimentacion disenado con
un solo objetivo en mente: ayudarte a vivir una vida mas joven.
Bienvenido a tu cuerpo! Por que no entras y le das un
vistazo?
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