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  • Convergent Leadership-Divergent Exposures

    Climate Change, Resilience, Vulnerabilities, and Ethics

    by Franco Oboni, Cesar H. Oboni, Janis A. Shandro ...
    This book aims, through its chapters, at providing the knowledge to make competent decisions, convince peers or top management to take appropriate action, or beat out the competition for climate adaptation measures including adjustments for design and operations. Topics discussed include business-as-usual vs. divergence; the effects of public pressure on corporate, industrial and government ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Tailings Dam Management for the Twenty-First Century

    What Mining Companies Need to Know and Do to Thrive in Our Complex World

    by Franco Oboni, Cesar Oboni, Henry Brehaut ...
    This book presents a comprehensive approach to address the need to improve the design of tailings dams, their management and the regulation of tailings management facilities to reduce, and eventually eliminate, the risk of such facilities failing. The scope of the challenge is well documented in the report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and GRID Arendal entitled “Mine Tailings ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

    by Scott E. Page ...
    Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Blockchain Alternative

    Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory

    by Kariappa Bheemaiah ...
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    Examine what would happen if we were to deploy blockchain technology at the sovereign level and use it to create a decentralized cashless economy. This book explains how finance and economics work today, and how the convergence of various technologies related to the financial sector can help us find solutions to problems, such as excessive debt creation, banks getting too big to fail, and shadow ... Read more

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  • Dark Data

    Why What You Don’t Know Matters

    by David J. Hand ...
    A practical guide to making good decisions in a world of missing dataIn the era of big data, it is easy to imagine that we have all the information we need to make good decisions. But in fact the data we have are never complete, and may be only the tip of the iceberg. Just as much of the universe is composed of dark matter, invisible to us but nonetheless present, the universe of information is ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Quantitative Methods for ESG Finance

    by Cino Robin Castelli, Cyril Shmatov ...
    A quantitative analyst’s introduction to the theory and practice of ESG financeIn Quantitative Methods for ESG Finance, accomplished risk and ESG experts Dr. Cyril Shmatov and Cino Robin Castelli deliver an incisive and essential introduction to the quantitative basis of ESG finance from a quantitative analyst’s perspective. The book combines the theoretical and mathematical bases underlying risk ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Solving for Project Risk Management: Understanding the Critical Role of Uncertainty in Project Management

    by Christian B. Smart ...
    Risk is real—but you can manage it with this hard-hitting guide to reducing risk on any project, in any industryAll projects, large and small, are subject to various risks. But the failure to manage inherent risk with diligence and know-how can lead to devastating consequences for an organization. In this comprehensive hands-on guide, a renowned expert in the field provides everything ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Land Development and Restoration

    Decision Consequence Analysis

    by Kandi Brown, William L Hall, Marjorie Hall Snook, Kathleen Garvin ...
    Decision Consequence Analysis (DCA) is a framework for improving the quality of decision results. The framework is a systematic, multi-criteria quantification of uncertainties and the opportunities for managing and reducing the potential negative consequences of such uncertainties. DCA is demonstrated throughout Sustainable Land Development and Restoration for each stage of system based management ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling

    A Practitioner's Guide

    by Kirsten Mitchell-Wallace, Matthew Jones, John Hillier, Matthew Foote ...
    This book covers both the practical and theoretical aspects of catastrophe modelling for insurance industry practitioners and public policymakers. Written by authors with both academic and industry experience it also functions as an excellent graduate-level text and overview of the field.Ours is a time of unprecedented levels of risk from both natural and anthropogenic sources. Fortunately, it is ... Read more

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  • Forecasting and Management of Technology

    by Alan L. Porter, Scott W. Cunningham, Jerry Banks, A. Thomas Roper, Thomas W. Mason, Frederick A. Rossini ...
    Published in 1991, the first edition of Forecasting and Management of Technology was one of the leading handful of books to deal with the topic of forecasting of technology and technology management as this discipline was emerging. The new, revised edition of this book will build on this knowledge in the context of business organizations that now place a greater emphasis on technology to stay on ... Read more

    $185.99 CAD

  • Spationomy

    Spatial Exploration of Economic Data and Methods of Interdisciplinary Analytics

    Edited by Vít Pászto, Carsten Jürgens, Polona Tominc, Jaroslav Burian ...
    This open access book is based on "Spationomy – Spatial Exploration of Economic Data", an interdisciplinary and international project in the frame of ERASMUS+ funded by the European Union.The project aims to exchange interdisciplinary knowledge in the fields of economics and geomatics. For the newly introduced courses, interdisciplinary learning materials have been developed by a team of lecturers ... Read more

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  • Systems Engineering with Economics, Probability & Statistics

    by C. Jotin Khisty, Jamshid Mohammadi, Adjo Amekudzi ...
    This extensively revised comprehensive textbook, covering a wide range of topics, is suitable for courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, each with a different emphasis. There is more than enough material to cover two semesters of an undergraduate course, as well as a one semester graduate course. The pedagogy provides enough flexibility for an instructor to teach the topics in systems ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD