Managing risk in extreme environments front-line business lessons for corporates and financial institutions /

• Main Author: Martin, Duncan.
• Corporate Author: Gale Group.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London, England : Kogan Page, c2008.
• Series: Gale virtual reference library
• Subjects: Risk management.; Emergency management.
• Online Access: Available for Universiti Teknologi MARA via Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click here to access

Presents real-life examples of extreme situations - from epidemics to earthquakes - to showcase risk management strategies which have been tested and shown to succeed.

Table of Contents:

• Epidemic
• Wildfire
• Terrorism
• Extreme humanitarian aid
• Mountain
• Meltdown
• Extraction
• Flood
• Earthquake
• Managing risk in extreme environments
• So what?
• The seven laws of extreme risk management.