Hazard: The Extinction Protocol guide to risk mitigation

Hazard: The Extinction Protocol guide to risk mitigation
Author: Alvin Conway
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2012-06
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1105824446

"Major disasters like the Japanese earthquake, the Joplin tornadoes, and Sandy are likely to become more frequent, and global governments must prepare for an uncertain future," said the 2011 report issued by the International Development Ministry in Britain. Scientists, in the report, said recent natural disasters are "the beginnings of a new kind of future in which mega-disasters are going to be more frequent. The scale, frequency and severity of rapid onset humanitarian disasters will continue to grow in the coming years, and at an accelerating pace." What would you do if you were faced with the imminent threat of a mega-earthquake or tsunami, the threat of a thermo-nuclear war, a nuclear plant melt-down, a volcanic eruption, a chemical or biological terror attack or a global pandemic? How do you protect yourself and your family from the ever-increasing set of calamitous hazards facing our modern world? What are the planet's low risk zones and where do you find them?

Climate Change Enterprise Risk Management

Climate Change Enterprise Risk Management
Author: Martin Massey
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2022-12-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1398608718

Develop and execute a resilient climate change enterprise risk strategy that can be tailored to any organization with this essential guide for risk professionals and business leaders. Climate Change Enterprise Risk Management equips readers with a practical roadmap for how organizations can integrate climate change into their enterprise risk strategy. It offers guidance on how to secure a robust framework that can identify and manage climate threats and opportunities for a business, how to increase the visibility of climate risk management activities at board level, and how and when to implement techniques such as thresholds, mitigation strategies, monitoring capabilities and risk appetite metrics. The book covers both existing best practice risk management tools and how they can be adapted for climate enterprise risk management as well as new interdisciplinary tools like stakeholder mapping. Climate Change Enterprise Risk Management is richly supported by global examples, interviews and case studies representing a wide range of companies and industries including the insurance, finance, infrastructure, oil and gas, legal and auditing sectors. This is a must-read for all risk professionals and business leaders involved in developing and executing enterprise risk management and strategy. It will also be valuable reading for students taking modules on enterprise risk management and climate change, sustainable business and risk management.

Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine Current Therapy, Volume 10 - E-Book

Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine Current Therapy, Volume 10 - E-Book
Author: R. Eric Miller
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 834
Release: 2022-07-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323828531

Get the latest advances in zoo and wild animal medicine in one invaluable reference! Written by internationally recognized experts, Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine: Current Therapy, Volume 10 provides a practical guide to the latest research and clinical management of captive and free-ranging wild animals. For each animal, coverage includes topics such as biology, anatomy and special physiology, reproduction, restraint and handling, housing requirements, nutrition and feeding, surgery and anesthesia, diagnostics, and treatment protocols. New topics in this edition include holistic treatments, antibiotic resistance in aquariums, non-invasive imaging for amphibians, emerging reptile viruses, and African ground hornbill medicine, in addition to giant anteater medicine, Brucella in marine animals, and rhinoceros birth parameters. With coverage of many subjects where information has not been readily available, Fowler's is a resource you don't want to be without. - Fowler's Current Therapy format ensures that each volume in the series covers all-new topics with timely information on current topics of interest in the field. - Focused coverage offers just the right amount of depth — often fewer than 10 pages in a chapter — which makes the material easier to access and easier to understand. - General taxon-based format covers all terrestrial vertebrate taxa plus selected topics on aquatic and invertebrate taxa. - Updated information from the Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS) includes records from their growing database for 2.3 million animals (374,000 living) and 23,000 taxa, which can serve as a basis for new research. - Expert, global contributors include authors from the U.S. and 25 other countries, each representing trends in their part of the world, and each focusing on the latest research and clinical management of captive and free-ranging wild animals. - NEW! All-new topics and contributors ensure that this volume addresses the most current issues relating to zoo and wild animals. - NEW! Content on emerging diseases includes topics such as COVID-19, rabbit hemorrhagic disease, yellow fever in South American primates, monitoring herpesviruses in multiple species, and canine distemper in unusual species. - NEW! Emphasis on management includes coverage of diversity in zoo and wildlife medicine. - NEW! Panel of international contributors includes, for the first time, experts from Costa Rica, Estonia, Ethiopia, India, Norway, and Singapore, along with many other countries. - NEW! Enhanced eBook version is included with each print purchase, providing a fully searchable version of the entire text and access to all of its text, figures, and references.

Psychology and Geriatrics

Psychology and Geriatrics
Author: Benjamin A. Bensadon
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2015-04-16
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0124201814

Psychology and Geriatrics demonstrates the value of integrating psychological knowledge and insight with medical training and geriatric care. Leading physician and geropsychologist contributors come together to share their collective wisdom about topics that are as emotionally uncomfortable as they are universally relevant. As the world struggles to respond to unprecedented gains in life expectancy and an explosion of new retirees living with chronic health conditions, this collaboration could not be more timely. This exceptional resource is, itself, evidence that physicians and psychologists can work together to optimize truly patient-centered geriatric care. Here at last is a scientifically rigorous, evidence-based response to the aging mind and body from those most expertly trained. - Illustrates why and how psychologists must assume a more integrated role in meeting the health care needs of older patients - Confronts emotionally laden topics such as cognitively impaired driving, caregiver burden, end-of-life communication, suicide, and systemic issues such as bias, payment, and the culture of medicine - Challenges decades-long barriers to integration, from both physician and psychologist perspectives, suggesting how they can finally be overcome - Provides an innovative, practical response to academic medicine's growing emphasis on psychological and behavioral science - Demonstrates how health care reform creates a behavioral health niche that clinical psychologists are uniquely qualified to fill

Guidelines for reintroductions and other conservation translocations

Guidelines for reintroductions and other conservation translocations
Author: Reintroduction and invasive species specialist groups' taskforce on moving plants and animals for conservation purposes
Publisher: IUCN
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2013
Genre: Animal ecology
ISBN: 2831716098

"As the world's biodiversity faces the incessant threats of habitat loss, invasive species and climate change, there is an increasing need to consider more direct conservation interventions. Humans have moved organisms between sites for their own purposes for millennia, and this has yielded benefits for human kind, but in some cases has led to disastrous impacts. In response to this complex aspect of conservation management, the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Reintroduction Specialist Group (RSG) and Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) have revised and published the IUCN 'Guidelines for Reintroductions and Other Conservation Translocations'"--Website.

A Practical Guide to Basic Laboratory Andrology

A Practical Guide to Basic Laboratory Andrology
Author: David Mortimer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2022-03-10
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1009181637

Preceded by A practical guide to basic labratory andrology / Lars Bjèorndahl... [et al.]. 2010.

Standard Fire Behavior Fuel Models

Standard Fire Behavior Fuel Models
Author: Joe H. Scott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2005
Genre: Fire management
ISBN:

This report describes a new set of standard fire behavior fuel models for use with Rothermels surface fire spread model and the relationship of the new set to the original set of 13 fire behavior fuel models. To assist with transition to using the new fuel models, a fuel model selection guide, fuel model crosswalk, and set of fuel model photos are provided.