Download or read book Analytical Methods for Risk Management written by Paul R. Garvey and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Text on the Foundation Processes, Analytical Principles, and Implementation Practices of Engineering Risk Management Drawing from the author's many years of hands-on experience in the field, Analytical Methods for Risk Management: A Systems Engineering Perspectivepresents the foundation processes and analytical practices

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Download or read book Deep Mapping the Media City written by Shannon Mattern and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going beyond current scholarship on the “media city” and the “smart city,” Shannon Mattern argues that our global cities have been mediated and intelligent for millennia. Deep Mapping the Media City advocates for urban media archaeology, a multisensory approach to investigating the material history of networked cities. Mattern explores the material assemblages and infrastructures that have shaped the media city by taking archaeology literally—using techniques like excavation and mapping to discover the modern city’s roots in time. Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

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