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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Risk governance"”.
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Law and power relations in risk governance of oil and gas activities in the Russian north
… is a socio-legal interdisciplinary study of risk governance in the oil and gas sector in the Russian North. Against a backdrop of the author's experience of training to be and working as a lawyer in both Siberia and the United States, it is based on four types of sources: (i) texts of …
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Understanding and improving disaster risk governance to address small-scale recurring disasters: insights from Aotearoa New Zealand
… aren’t specific and clear policies in disaster risk governance that address the emergency response to and recovery from small-scale recurring disasters. Thus, they fall through risk assessment processes because those processes do not sufficiently capture them thereby preventing their evaluation …
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Collaborative Flood Risk Governance at Property Scale: the Challenges and Discourse around Property Level Flood Risk Data in England
… one in six properties in England and Wales is at risk of flooding (EA, 2009b). Study on components of flood risk suggests that damage sustained by buildings during flood events can vary considerably depending on the characteristics of the flood hazard and individual building characteristics. …
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The Role of Gender in Post-Disaster Recovery and Disaster Risk Governance in Nepal: Examining Links Between Women, Institutions and Capacity-Building
… affect their ability to participate in disaster risk management. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 53 participants from four categories: Nepali women and men who reside within Bhaktapur municipality; employees of non-governmental institutions who run community programmes aimed at …
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From compliance to coping: Experiences of Chief Risk Officers in UK banks 2007-2009
… the pressures of a financial crisis, the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) in UK banks occupied a potentially conflicted role during 2007 - 9. The Boards of banks had created the CRO role with responsibility for managing commercial risk but also for producing public risk reports within a system of …
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The Implications of Wicked Problems for the Legitimacy of European Environmental Policy Development. The case of Environmental Risks from the Pharmaceutical Endocrine Disrupter, 17α-Ethinyl Oestradiol under the European Water Framework Directive
The issue of environmental risks from the pharmaceutical endocrine disrupter 17 alpha-ethinyl oestradiol (EE2), which is an active ingredient in the contraceptive pill, confronts government responsibilities for citizens' health with potential environmental risks from its presence in aquatic …
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Governing coastal risk: the case of Langebaan's disappearing shoreline
… South African are highly exposed to climate risks, namely storm surges, flooding and coastal erosion, which particularly impact socio-ecological systems at the local level. The aim of this study is to examine the various technical responses and governance approaches employed by government to …
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Development of a governance framework for delivery of collaborative and security-minded BIM projects
… are able to govern digitalsecurity-risks whilst also reconciling tensions between collaborative motives, leading to difficultiesin sharing enough information to ensure stakeholder efficiency whilst not exposing sensitivitiesand elevating security-risk. This research aims to address …
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Examining the feasiblity of informal settlement flood early warning systems : focus on the urban flood-risk experience of Kosovo and Masiphumelele residents, Cape Town South Africa
… are disproportionally borne both by those at risk and the local government that is required to repeatedly respond to them. A social science perspective is adopted, with the application of a risk communication framework. The urban flood-risk context of both study sites and the risk governance …
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Going national: universal jurisdiction and the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
In a historical moment, after a couple of decades of development from Nuremberg to the ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) set to work in The Hague in 2002, to fight impunity for the most atrocious crimes against international law, …
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Defensive tactics against takeovers in theory and practice in the USA, the UK, South Africa, Germany and the EU
After the takeover wave of the 1970s and 1980s in the USA and in the United Kingdom the 1990s have experienced a more moderate takeover market. Nonetheless takeovers nowadays are a major issue all over the industrialised world, in economic and legal circles as well as in society. One rather …
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The United Nations council for Namibia with special emphasis on its Decree No 1
This thesis examines the legal status of the United Nations Council for Namibia and the validity of its actions before and after the independence of the Territory with special emphasis on its Decree No 1. Chapter I describes the natural environment of Namibia, its human resources and economic …
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Developing a framework for robust safety management in Ghana’s upstream oil and gas industry
… industry. Given the country’s experience of poor risk governance regimes before the emergence of the upstream oil and gas industry, it has become imperative to develop a robust safety management regime that can deal with the complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity of risk associated with upstream …
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Essays in International Financial Governance
… shift in the prevailing consensus on financial governance. It reminded us of the fragility of the international financial system and the politically unacceptable costs to society when it fails. This dissertation adds to the literature on the governance of private and public sector financial …
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Informativeness of Value-at-risk Disclosure in the Banking Industry
… the Basel Committee’s advocacy of value-at-risk (VaR) disclosure in external reports of financial institutions, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued Financial Reporting Release No. 48 to permit VaR disclosure as one of the most important disclosure approaches for market-risk …
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The Influence of Policy Discourses on multilevel water governance: a case study of the Equatorial Nile Basin
… of informal policy networks for water governance, and critically discusses the extent to which the framing of issues by these networks are reflected in the practical implementation of multilevel water governance. This thesis uses a mixed methods approach, combining qualitative with …
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Disaster risk reduction in Africa: is the institutionalization of traditional leaders key?
… the role of traditional leaders in shaping governance of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Africa. It argues that although traditional leaders remain central to local governance, especially in rural communities, they are still largely absent from formal DRR frameworks despite their authority, …
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Exploring Risk-Based Decision-Making Practices in Malaysian Oil and Gas Companies: A Qualitative Study on Key Implementation Elements for Business Value Creation
… past decade. This research aims to investigate risk-based decision-making framework key elements, its implications to the organisation business value creation and other determinant factors or emergent that contribute to greater business value creation in selected Malaysian oil and gas companies. …
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Risk and Socio-technical Systems: A study of the Taiwanese Campus Accident Reporting System
… is to examine the processes and problems of risk governance within the functioning of a socio-technical system in a hierarchical organization. I explore the actual problems of operators of the Campus Security Report System and the solutions they deploy as different groups of people. The …
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