Unpacking notions of residents' responsibility in flood risk governance [PDF]
, 2022 Environmental disasters, and especially floods, are among today's biggest sustainability challenges. The number and intensity of floods are increasing, challenging current governance approaches.
Doorn, Neelke +31 more
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Revisiting corporate governance and financial risk-taking [PDF]
, 2023 Corporate governance attributes have varying effects on risk taking when variables are examined separately. We study the effects of a large range of corporate governance attributes on risk taking using a comprehensive US sample. Our findings confirm that
Yazdifar, Hassan +7 more
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Self-Governance for Sustainable Global Supply Chains: Can it deliver the impacts needed? [PDF]
, 2013 The world community convened in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012 for the third UN Conference on Sustainable Development. We are, however, increasingly facing major persistent threats, which despite being known for a few decades are still far from being ...
Walter J.V. Vermeulen +3 more
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Boosting systemic risk governance: Perspectives and insights from understanding national systems approaches for dealing with disaster and climate risk. Contributing Paper. [PDF]
, 2022 This contributing paper reviews the governance of systemic risk with the aim to identify opportunities and enabling factors for improving governance by managing what are increasingly interdependent risks with the potential for cascading impacts.
Norton, R. +5 more
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A meta-level analysis of major trends in environmental health risk governance [PDF]
, 2010 Internationally but also within countries, large differences exist regarding how environmental health risks (EHRs) are governed. Despite these differences, at a meta-level some general trends can be discerned that may point to a convergence of EHR ...
Sluijs, J.P. van der +5 more
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The flood risk management plan: towards spatial water governance [PDF]
, 2017 The flood risk management plan challenges both water engineers and spatial planners. It calls for a new mode of governance for flood risk management. This contribution analyses how this mode of governance distinguishes from prevalent approaches.
Driessen, P. +5 more
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Coporate governance and firm risk [PDF]
, 2017 This study explores the relationship between the board governance structure and firm risk. Specifically, we develop a ‘Governance index’ based on four different aspects of the board: 1. Board composition, 2. Board leadership structure, 3.
Salma Ibrahim +8 more
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Risk governance: An Overview of Drivers and Success Factors [PDF]
This paper proposes a broad review of what risk governance is about and the main deficits that often hinder effective governance of complex, uncertain or systemic risks. Working to overcome identified roadblocks to effective disaster risk management is a
Florin, Marie-Valentine, Jianhua, Xu
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The good governance guide to risk
, 2021 Risk is something that affects all organisations and if not handled correctly, it can be catastrophic. Our Good Governance Guide to Risk offers complete coverage of this dense, wide-ranging topic and will make sure that you are managing and controlling ...
Ashby, Simon
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Risk and Efficiency in European Banking — Does Corporate Governance Matter?
, 2015 The challenges for banks due to the new detailed regulation of the 'management body' predict a reduced bank risk at low cost. In this chapter, we determine the relevance of this statement, empirically testing whether the corporate governance of banks ...
Willesson, Magnus,, Magnus Willesson
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