Rainfall is an important source of covariate shock in developing countries. Insurance against a rainfall index has, therefore, held much promise as a formal insurance product to protect the livelihoods of poor farmers. But how good is rainfall as a measure of covariate shocks? The imperfect...

This book is a comprehensive guide to several aspects of risk, including information systems, disaster management, supply chain and disaster management perspectives. A major portion of this book is devoted to presenting a number of operations research models that have been (or could be) applied...

Enterprise Risk Management in Supply Chains -- Risk Matrices -- Value-Focused Supply Chain Risk Analysis -- Examples of Supply Chain Decisions Trading Off Criteria -- Simulation of Supply Chain Risk -- Value at Risk Models -- Chance Constrained Models -- Data Envelopment Analysis in Enterprise...

Enterprise Risk Management in Supply Chains -- Enterprise Risk Management Process -- Information Systems Security Risk -- Enterprise Risk Management in Projects -- Natural Disaster Risk Management -- Disaster Risk Management in China -- Value-Focused Supply Chain Risk Analysis -- Examples of...

The paper deals with maritime risk, which we consider important, no doubt, for ship-owners acting in volatile markets. Traditionally, risk is measured by "standard deviation". Other risk measures like "excess kurtosis", "excess skewness", "long-term dependence" and the "catastrophe propensity"...