Making Sense Of Virtual Risks
DOWNLOAD
Download Making Sense Of Virtual Risks PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Making Sense Of Virtual Risks book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Making Sense Of Virtual Risks
DOWNLOAD
Author : Casper Harteveld
language : en
Publisher: IOS Press
Release Date : 2012
Making Sense Of Virtual Risks written by Casper Harteveld and has been published by IOS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Computers categories.
Along with the rise of digital games over the past decades came an increased interest for using games for other purposes than entertainment. Although a few successes are known, much research seems to suggest little evidence for games' advantages. Existing literature claims that more studies are needed that investigate the effective design and use of games and especially studies that are comprehensive, rigorous, and innovative. To contribute to this emerging field, the author investigated the case of Levee Patroller. The target audience of the game, levee patrollers, are considered the "eyes and ears" of the Dutch water authorities. They inspect levees and report any risks they encounter. Similarly, in the game players have to find all virtual failures in a region and report these. If they do not find the failures in time or report them incorrectly, it could result in a levee breach that floods the whole virtual region.
Life S Adventure Virtual Risk In A Real World
DOWNLOAD
Author : Roger Bate
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-06-17
Life S Adventure Virtual Risk In A Real World written by Roger Bate and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with Business & Economics categories.
We live in a dangerous world. Numerous hazards can strike us down from infectious diseases and genetic disorders to food poisoning and car crashes. Furthermore, the advances in information technology enable consumers to be more aware of these problems as the latest data on new hazards is spun around the world in a matter of seconds. As part of the opinion forming sector (as a think tank researcher and opinion editorial writer) Roger Bate has contributed to this information exchange. His writing over the past five years, as reflected in this book, has focussed on 5 key themes: 1. Hazards are as likely to come from natural as from man-made substances. 2. The linear no-threshold hypothesis is rubbish (i.e. the dose makes the poison). 3. An entire industry has developed to scare us into stopping certain activities, or making us feel guilty for continuing them, or lobbying to have them banned by government. 4. The public are quite capable of making decisions that involve complex trade-offs if only we would let them; indeed not letting them causes enormous problems as government bodies do not have the dispersed knowledge to do this, and are subject to interest group pressure. 5. There are innumerable benefits, as well as costs, from risk taking. Most articles concerning risk avoid mentioning any of the above five themes. The articles for this book were originally published in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Economic Affairs, and The Sunday Times. An introduction will draw all the articles together.
The Real Story Of Risk
DOWNLOAD
Author : Glenn Croston
language : en
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Release Date : 2012-11-06
The Real Story Of Risk written by Glenn Croston and has been published by Prometheus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-06 with Science categories.
We live in a world of risk. It waits for us in our refrigerator and surrounds us on the freeway. It's lurking in our arteries and sitting in our 401(k) accounts. Given that we deal with risk on a constant basis, we should be good at it; as it turns out, though, we're not. We're blind to common risks like heart disease (one in five deaths), but we shrink in fear from rare events like shark attacks (one in a million) and airplane crashes (one in twenty thousand). What accounts for our poor ability to perceive and react to the risks that really matter? Starting from an evolutionary perspective, the author traces our distorted perception of risk back to our ancestors, reminding readers that we are all the culmination of a long line of survivors who fought life-and-death threats such as attacks from wild animals, starvation, and disease. The fact that we have covered Earth with seven billion people is a testament to our skill at overcoming these risks. But our spectacular success has also produced our contemporary artificial world with new threats like climate change, chili dogs, and online gambling. Our brains, which evolved to deal with the ancient world, are ill equipped to process the new threats we face. Croston examines the many facets of our hazardous modern environment that we only dimly perceive. He explains why we let our guard down for a beautiful face, why slow-moving risks (like rising seas) are hard to stop, how a good story (though false) can be more persuasive than dry statistics (even alarming ones), what we fear even more than death, and many other intriguing quirks about our built-in incompetence to adequately handle present-day risks. Offering a wealth of fascinating information about health, sex, money, safety, food, and the environment, this book illuminates an often-misunderstood but crucial aspect of daily life.
Risk And Technological Culture
DOWNLOAD
Author : Joost Van Loon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
Risk And Technological Culture written by Joost Van Loon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Social Science categories.
The question as to whether we are now entering a risk society has become a key debate in contemporary social theory. Risk and Technological Culture presents a critical discussion of the main theories of risk from Ulrich Becks foundational work to that of his contemporaries such as Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash and assesses the extent to which risk has impacted on modern societies. In this discussion van Loon demonstrates how new technologies are transforming the character of risk and examines the relationship between technological culture and society through substantive chapters on topics such as waste, emerging viruses, communication technologies and urban disorders. In so doing this innovative new book extends the debate to encompass theorists such as Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Jean-François Lyotard.
Handbook Of Research Methods And Applications In Environmental Studies
DOWNLOAD
Author : Matthias Ruth,
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2015-08-28
Handbook Of Research Methods And Applications In Environmental Studies written by Matthias Ruth, and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-28 with Political Science categories.
This Handbook presents methods to advance the understanding of interdependencies between the well-being of human societies and the performance of their biophysical environment. It showcases applications to material and energy use; urbanization and tech
User Avatar Bond Risk And Opportunities In Gaming And Beyond
DOWNLOAD
Author : Vasileios Stavropoulos
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2022-06-07
User Avatar Bond Risk And Opportunities In Gaming And Beyond written by Vasileios Stavropoulos and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-07 with Science categories.
Virtual Teams
DOWNLOAD
Author : David Pauleen
language : en
Publisher: IGI Global
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Virtual Teams written by David Pauleen and has been published by IGI Global this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Computers categories.
Virtual teams are a new phenomenon and by definition work across time, distance and organizations. This text gathers academic research on real, work-based virtual teams. It presents practical research, insight and advice on how virtual team projects can be better managed.
Securing Finance Mobilizing Risk
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Morris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-03-28
Securing Finance Mobilizing Risk written by John Morris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-28 with Business & Economics categories.
Drawing on the history of modern finance, as well as the sociology of money and risk, this book examines how cultural understandings of finance have contributed to the increased capitalization of the UK financial system following the Global Financial Crisis. Providing both a geographically-inflected analysis and re-appraisal of the concept of performativity, it demonstrates that financial risk management has a spatiality that helps to inform understandings and imaginaries of the risks associated with money and finance. The book traces the development of understandings of risk at the Bank of England, with an analysis that spans some 1,000 reports, documents and speeches alongside elite interviews with past and present employees at the central bank. The author argues that the Bank has moved from a relatively broad-brush approach to the risks being managed in the financial sector, to a greater preoccupation with the understanding and mapping of the mobilization of financial risk. The study of financial practices from a critical social sciences and humanities perspective has grown rapidly since the Global Financial Crisis and this book will be of interest to multiple subject areas including IPE, economic geography, sociology of finance and critical security studies.
Supply Chain Risk Management
DOWNLOAD
Author : Robert Handfield
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2007-12-17
Supply Chain Risk Management written by Robert Handfield and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-17 with Business & Economics categories.
The lifeblood of any business is the timely delivery of products and services. In the best possible world, if one plans accordingly, disruptions never occur. However, in the real world, disruptions do and will occur and the best business plans are those that anticipate and prepare for this inevitability, especially when dealing with international s
The Risk Society And Beyond
DOWNLOAD
Author : Barbara Adam
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2000-07-27
The Risk Society And Beyond written by Barbara Adam and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-27 with Social Science categories.
Ulrich Beck's best selling Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of social movements and acted as a reference point for state and local policies in risk management. The Risk Society and Beyond charts the progress of Beck's ideas and traces their evolution. It demonstrates why the issues raised by Beck reverberate widely throughout social theory and covers the new risks that Beck did not foresee, associated with the emergence of new technologies, genetic and cybernetic. The book is unique because it offers both an introduction to the main arg