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FeaturesCan you dig for wealth and be green?
Extractive industries and sustainability do not go hand in hand. Or do they? We asked Total and Rio Tinto for their views
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FeaturesWhat do you know?
Managing risk information successfully has become a priority for European companies. Graham Buck asks what a risk information system needs to be effective for everyone within the organisation
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FeaturesGetting ready for The 31000
The new ISO standard is meeting with a mixed response from risk managers, says Neil Hodge
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FeaturesTaking a united approach
Alex Kiffen reports on a recent round table discussion on how to deal with catastrophe and how to prevent it
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FeaturesAn integrated approach
Aymeric Boyer-Vidal, GDF-Suez’s director of audit and risk discusses embedding enterprise risk management and handling a crisis
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FeaturesWinds of change for agricultural risks
Changing climate and commodity price trends are steering agricultural risk in a new direction. The result is a rethink of exposure, products and product design. By Thomas Heintz
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A geographical understanding of risk
The advent of satellite navigation and the birth of Google Earth, Google Maps and France’s Geoportail have alerted everyone involved in the management of catastrophes to the value of geographical information systems. By François-Xavier Goblet
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Seeing risk: Floods
The 2007 UK summer floods pushed flooding up the agenda for politicians and businesses alike. A year and a half later topographical maps and modelling technologies have improved to give us better tools to manage the risks. By Justin Butler
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Hurricane risk at high resolution
We are using high resolution climate models and supercomputers to assess future hurricane risk to the United States and Caribbean at precision never before seen. By Greg Holland with James Done, Jim Hurrell, David Hosansky and Asuka Suzuki
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Catastrophe risk management using multiple models
While catastrophe models follow a similar overall approach to risk assessment, there can be wide variations in results, leaving users to question which is the most appropriate. By Atul Khanduri
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Converting knowledge into action
Anselm Smolka was one of the few geoscientists in the insurance sector when he joined Munich Re Group. Today he is head of Geo Risks, corporate underwriting for the group. He tells Catastrophe Risk Management about his work. By Lee Coppack
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FeaturesCEO INTERVIEW: Peter Harmer, chief executive, AON UK
The downfall of AIG threw AON’s team into crisis management mode. But the broker remains confident that the turmoil will reveal new opportunities
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FeaturesTerror trade
Kidnappers and extortionists use violence as a means to their financial or political ends. They pose a threat to both employees and corporate reputations. Nathan Skinner talks through the problem
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FeaturesInsuring against the downturn
The economic downturn introduces new risks and emphasises old ones. Nathan Skinner investigates what is making companies cautious and how the insurance industry is responding
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FeaturesEverything changes, nothing changes
Risk management is by no means a new idea. Andrew Leslie, deputy editor, StrategicRISK, looks back at medieval Europe to see how merchants and traders managed their risk
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The engine-house of modern risk management
Do internal audit and risk management connect or not? Responding to an article last year in StrategicRISK, Nicola Rimmer gives her opinion
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FeaturesPaolo Rubini, director risk management, Telecom Italia & vice chairman, ANRA
Nathan Skinner quizzes one of Italy’s top risk managers on the challenges to his profession in a tricky economic climate
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FeaturesSolutions not problems
A four pronged approach to supply chain risk management can improve resilience and the value of the insurance programme says Jim Carruthers
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FeaturesThat uncertain feeling
All measurements are made because somebody, somewhere, needs information. This information is often used to enable decisions to be made. In order to minimise risk, these decisions must be reliable, says John Hurll
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FeaturesERM for insurers
Nathan Skinner chairs a discussion on risk management in insurance companies
