The volume examines complex intersections of environmental conditions, geopolitical tensions and local innovative reactions characterising ‘the Arctic’ in the early twenty-first century. What happens in the region (such as permafrost thaw or methane release) not only sweeps rapidly through local ecosystems but also has profound global implications. Bringing together a unique combination of authors who are local practitioners, indigenous scholars and international researchers, the book provides nuanced views of the social consequences of climate change and environmental risks across human and non-human realms.

The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may play a positive role regarding safety. Building on these two observations and bridging the gap between risk communication and safety practices leads to a new, more societal perspective on risk communication, that allows for smart risk governance and safety management. This book is Open Access under a CC-BY licence.

This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back. Since then, these dangers have only multiplied, from climate change to engineered pathogens and artificial intelligence. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late. Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies that can safeguard humanity. An Oxford philosopher committed to putting ideas into action, Toby Ord has advised the US National Intelligence Council, the UK Prime Minister's Office, and the World Bank on the biggest questions facing humanity. In The Precipice, he offers a startling reassessment of human history, the future we are failing to protect, and the steps we must take to ensure that our generation is not the last. "A book that seems made for the present moment." —New Yorker

This publication serves as a roadmap for exploring and managing climate risk in the U.S. financial system. It is the first major climate publication by a U.S. financial regulator. The central message is that U.S. financial regulators must recognize that climate change poses serious emerging risks to the U.S. financial system, and they should move urgently and decisively to measure, understand, and address these risks. Achieving this goal calls for strengthening regulators’ capabilities, expertise, and data and tools to better monitor, analyze, and quantify climate risks. It calls for working closely with the private sector to ensure that financial institutions and market participants do the same. And it calls for policy and regulatory choices that are flexible, open-ended, and adaptable to new information about climate change and its risks, based on close and iterative dialogue with the private sector. At the same time, the financial community should not simply be reactive—it should provide solutions. Regulators should recognize that the financial system can itself be a catalyst for investments that accelerate economic resilience and the transition to a net-zero emissions economy. Financial innovations, in the form of new financial products, services, and technologies, can help the U.S. economy better manage climate risk and help channel more capital into technologies essential for the transition. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5247742

This open access edited volume critically examines a coherence building opportunity between Climate Change Adaptation, the Sustainable Development Goals and Disaster Risk Reduction agendas through presenting best practice approaches, and supporting Irish and international case studies. The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted existing global inequalities and demonstrated the scope and scale of cascading socio-ecological impacts. The impacts of climate change on our global communities will likely dwarf the disruption brought on by the pandemic, and moreover, these impacts will be more diffuse and pervasive over a longer timeframe. This edited volume considers opportunities to address global challenges in the context of developing resilience as an integrated development continuum instead of through independent and siloed agendas.

"Success is all about managing risk, not profits." In Trading With Confluence, Michael Toma takes a unique risk-based approach to succeeding in trading futures. "The one single reason that separates success and failure in trading is the ability to focus on and assess risk," says Toma, who admits throughout the book that his risk management expertise, not his trading skills, propelled his success as a trader. The author provides all the information needed to succeed including his ten most profitable trading setups in an easy-to-understand format. The author also explains his unique methodology on how to self-assess your own trading performance by using key performance indicators specific to trading futures. Additional topics in the book include: -The importance of managing risk and how to identify high probability opportunities. -The 'Big 4 and Little 3' - the 7 key elements to trading success. -Step-by-step instruction on how to setup your trading business. -How to create your trading plan and trade journal. -Learn how to measure and assess your trading activity like a professional risk manager. -Development of key performance indicators allowing you to monitor your success and identify areas of improvement. -Learning the 'graduation plan' method of managing your trading capital. -Explanation of high probability setups to use immediately. -Specific tips on how to overcome the demons of trading psychology. -A chapter on the realities of trading and how to minimize mistakes. -Characteristics of a successful trading coach and how to select the right one for you. Trading With Confluence provides trade setups you can use from the 1st day you start your trading business and will help reduce the learning curve time that most traders struggle through before becoming consistently profitable. After spending several years as a corporate risk manager, Michael Toma takes the same risk principles used in his teaching of risk theory and combines it with his passion for trading into a no-nonsense yet intuitive understanding of why markets move through areas of 'confluence'. In Trading With Confluence, Toma provides the trader with all they need to know to trade e-mini futures by minimizing risk of capital. Packed with valuable trade setups, trading templates and platform charting tips, Trading With Confluence is a must read for the novice trader hungry for success trading the e-mini futures markets.