There has been some degree of reluctance in the past to consider disaster risk management within the mainstream of adaptation to climate variability and climate change. However, there is now wide recognition of the need to incorporate disaster risk management concerns in dealing with such...

1. Enterprise Risk Management in Supply Chains -- 2. Risk Matrices -- 3. Value-Focused Supply Chain Risk Analysis -- 4. Examples of Supply Chain Decisions Trading-off Criteria -- 5. Simulation of Supply Chain Risk -- 6. Value at Risk Models -- 7. Chance-Constrained Models -- 8. Data Envelopment...

Focusing on the physics of the catastrophe process and addressed directly to advanced students, this innovative textbook quantifies dozens of perils, both natural and man-made, and covers the latest developments in catastrophe modelling. Combining basic statistics, applied physics, natural and...