Offers readers with the knowledge and the skill-set needed to achieve a highly effective risk analysis assessment. This title demonstrates how to identify threats and then determine if those threats pose a real risk. It is suitable for industry and academia professionals

1. High risk vessels -- 2. Coastal States' jurisdiction under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea -- 3. Significance of the precautionary principle in marine law -- 4. Practical applications of the precautionary principle in marine law -- 5. Application of the precautionary...

1. What is to come? -- 2. Thinking about the im-possible risk in the financial industry -- 3. Risk : the sovereign exception -- 4. The displaced world of risk : risk management as alienated risk (perception?) -- 5. From "risk and responsibility" to the risk of responsibility -- 6. "Who's afraid...

ch. 1. Introduction : why conduct risk analysis? -- ch. 2. Cost risk analysis basics : the three-point estimate and an analytic solution, the method of moments -- ch. 3. What is Monte Carlo simulation and how does it apply to cost risk analysis? -- ch. 4. Collecting high-quality data on cost...

1. Introduction / Robert C. Lind -- 2. A primer on the major issues relating to the discount rate for evaluating national energy options / Robert C. Lind -- 3. A reader's guide to the papers in this volume / Robert C. Lind -- 4. The rate of discount on public investments with imperfect capital...

Economic theory -- Prices, profits, and costs -- Real and money wages -- The theory of value -- Investment spending -- Consumption spending -- Taxation -- Macroeconomic cycles and growth -- Interest rates, inflation, and monetary policy -- Financial institutions and financial markets -- Economic...