Asia Pacific – Page 82
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Archive
Global Warming and Extreme Weather Events
The blockbuster movie of the summer of 2004, The Day After Tomorrow, popularised the public's conventional assumptions regarding how global warming will manifest - as a global increase in severe or ev
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Archive
New Madrid Warning
After a magnitude 41 earthquake from the New Madrid fault shook eastern Arkansas and western Tennessee on 10 February 2005, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reminded people living in the region that th
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European Round-up
Around Europe
News and comments from the Federation of European Risk Management Associations
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Features
Risk and Reward
Despite the current preoccupation with corporate governance, customer service risk still concerns European financial managers more than financial reporting requirements, says Wendy Cohen
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Features
The Role of Diversity
Eden Charles highlights the need for senior management to wake up to the increasing role of diversity in order to survive in today's global market
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Features
Looking into the crystal ball
What risks will the future bring? Does today's science fiction presage tomorrow's fact?
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Interviews
Airmic Interview
Julia Graham, director of risk management for the international Law firm DLA, talks to Lee Coppack
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Features
An Art or a Science?
Ken MacDonald and Vladimir Uhmylenko discuss how organisations can optimise their risk retention programmes
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Features
Cost versus risk
Keith Tilley discusses the importance of evaluating the risks associated with off-shoring business processes and what the risk management professional should consider when deciding to move mission-cri
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Analysis
Sustainable Building
Governments, not markets must be in the driving seat if there is to be any progress in controlling the massive environmental impact of the world's construction activities, says a new report published
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Features
Using your intelligence
Mark T Townsend examines the importance of business intelligence and due diligence in assessing risk in emerging markets
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Archive
Disasters Bulletin 5: 21 February - 21 July 2004
Flood events have dominated the natural disaster scene for the period February to July 2004, with 119 serious floods recorded up to and including 22 July
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Archive
Preparing a global prevention plan
Businesses can suffer catastrophic consequences from different types of events, some of which are not catastrophic in themselves
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Archive
Introduction - From the Editor
As we went to press hurricane Charley had dissipated its force en route to New England but the storm left a trail of damage as it travelled diagonally across Florida Preliminary estimates of insured d
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Archive
AIRMIC News Day 2: Lecturers
DR LYNN DRENNAN has taught at Glasgow Caledonian University since 1987 and has been head of its division of risk since 1998
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Archive
AIRMIC News Day 1: Lecturers
David Hall began his insurance career in 1963 with Sun Alliance, coming from an engineering background with a double 1st in marine engineering from Liverpool University
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Features
Keeping Your Promises
Jenny Rayner explores how you can protect and enhance corporate reputation by managing risks to delivering customer promise
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Features
Educating Tomorrow's Risk Managers
Jean-Paul Louisot looks at developing and disseminating risk management knowledge and enhanced standards of excellence
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Features
Asbestos Update
Over 100 years after it was first publicly revealed in a UK parliamentary report to be hazardous to health, asbestos has made an unwelcome return to the top of organisations' risk registers, says Neil
