This handbook examines the latest techniques and strategies that are used to unlock the risk transfer capacity of global financial and capital markets. Taking the financial crisis and global recession into account, it frames and contextualises non-traditional risk transfer tools created over the...

1 Uncertainty: new perspectives, questions and proposals, by Gilles Motet -- 2 Uncertainty - its ontological status and relation to safety, by Ove Njå, Øivind Solberg & Geir Sverre Braut -- 3 A conceptual foundation for assessing and managing risk, surprises and black swans, by Terje Aven -- 4...

The risk process commonly used in the corporate world to deal with risks may be suitable for non-catastrophic events, but not for extreme events. By analyzing a series of past disasters and the relevant 'lessons learned', this books proposes a series of prescriptive measures to cope with future...