Risk Management or The End of Over Consumption

Risk Management

Author: Emmett J Vaughan

This book reflects the trend in industry toward an increased focus on risk management in insurance. Combining both the theoretical and practical, it explores what today's risk managers need to know.

Booknews

Designed to be used in either a first course, or a capstone course in risk management. Topics include: the history of modern risk management; risk management decisions; policy and objectives; methodologies, tools, and techniques; measuring property loss, indirect loss, criminal loss and legal liability exposures; usefulness of quantitative analysis; general considerations of risk control; practical considerations in insurance buying, types and taxation of captive insurers; and risk financing. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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The End of Over-Consumption: Towards a Lifestyle of Moderation and Self-Restraint

Author: Marius Geus

This provocative and readable study examines the norms, values and beliefs that contribute to modern environmental problems. Criticizing the environmental abuses inherent in the acquisitive values of consumer society, the argument presented contends that individuals must simplify their lifestyles and exhibit moderation and self-restraint to avoid waste and maintain the earth's resources. In this vision, governments must translate moderation and limitation into effective policy measures and adapt economic, social, and political institutions accordingly.

Environmental Val

A splendidly engaging work . . . The author covers an enormous amount of ground with elegance and economy of expression."

Environmental Values

A splendidly engaging work . . . The author covers an enormous amount of ground with elegance and economy of expression."

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements	11
	Introduction	13
Pt. I	Sustainability and the Greening of Political Institutions
1	Sustainability, Liberal Democracy, Liberalism	23
2	Formulating Sustainability in a Liberal Democracy	39
3	The Ecological Restructuring of the State	57
Pt. II	Utopia and Sustainability
4	Ecological Utopianism and Sustainability	81
5	Landscapes in the Western Utopian Tradition	98
6	Utopians on Education for Sustainability	118
Pt. III	Lifestyle Changes, Consumerism and Frugality
7	The Need to Deliberately Steer Consumer Behaviour	137
8	Consumerism, Hedonism and the Permanent Renewal of Desires	157
9	Towards a Lifestyle of Moderation and Self-restraint	176
	Notes	199
	References	211
	About the Author	218
	Index	219