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- Provides knowledge to make competent decisions to address risks and hazards
- Presents case studies
- Suggests solutions under the form of healthy, rational, and quantitative methodological approaches
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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State of Affairs
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Divergent Exposures, the Public and Ethics
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Convergent Assessment of Exposures
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Tactical and Strategic Planning for Convergent/Divergent Reality
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Convergent Assessment for Divergent Exposures: Case Studies
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About this book
This book aims, through its chapters, at providing the knowledge to make competent decisions, convince peers or top management to take appropriate action, or beat out the competition for climate adaptation measures including adjustments for design and operations. Topics discussed include business-as-usual vs. divergence; the effects of public pressure on corporate, industrial and government decision making; techniques for gathering the proper information to assess risks and hazards; the importance determining risk tolerance thresholds; the difference between tolerable risks, intolerable ones that benefit from mitigation and those that require strategic shifts; why common practice approaches such as FMEA, and risk matrices are inadequate in today’s world and do not help ensure infrastructural and systemic resilience and sustainability.
Case histories and three complete case studies that can be adapted to any industry or project walk the reader step by step from client request to recommendations and conditions of validity. The ultimate aim is to understand how to reduce risks to tolerable and societally acceptable levels while simultaneously creating sustainable and ethical systems.
Authors and Affiliations
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Oboni Riskope Associates Inc., Vancouver, Canada
Franco Oboni, Cesar H. Oboni
About the authors
Cesar H. Oboni has been involved in risk analyses and reviews for numerous facilities and organizations, communities, mining companies (coal mining, gold, copper and zinc mining), military bodies, and transportation entities, including “at perpetuity” projects. In addition to his activities in Risk Assessment and Optimum Risk Estimates, he has been very active in the analysis of special and emerging risks, co-authoring a report on Cyber-defense at national scale for an European country. Cesar analyses and prioritizes residual risk of mining infrastructures, tailings and water treatment plants. His clients include Fortune 500 companies, large mining corporations, UN/UNDP, transportation and military bodies. César is the author of more than 35 papers published in the proceedings of international conferences and symposiums. He is the co-author several books. He was co-recipient of the 2010 ICCC, the Italian Canadian Chamber of Commerce (Canada West) Innovation Award.
Janis A. Shandro (Contributor) works and researches on a range of topics associated with community and occupational health, safety development and security. She has broad experience across diverse sectors in the areas of effective risk management, strategic health and development investments, and monitoring and evaluation approaches. She has successfully supported the adoption of improved health, safety and social performance in challenging and unique settings as well as developed and implemented a range of programs and capacity building efforts for diverse target groups. Dr. Shandro is specialized in identifying and managing social, health, safety and security risks associated with large-scale development projects, incidents and emergency scenarios. She has a proven track record of working collaboratively with communities, governments (Indigenous and non), international organizations, multilateral development banks, academic institutions and the private sector in developing and developed nations. Her projects include health/social impact assessment; health and safety; indigenous health; the health and social performance of the global development sector; climate change and health; international performance standards, requirements and safeguard policies; resettlement/ livelihood restoration.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Convergent Leadership-Divergent Exposures
Book Subtitle: Climate Change, Resilience, Vulnerabilities, and Ethics
Authors: Franco Oboni, Cesar H. Oboni
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74930-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74929-3Published: 15 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74932-3Published: 16 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74930-9Published: 14 June 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 351
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 87 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environment, general, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Analytical Chemistry, Natural Hazards, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics