www.elsevier.com/locate/gloenvcha Vulnerability conditions and risk representations in Latin-America: Framing the territorializing urban risk Julien Rebotier * ˆtiment IRSAM – SET‚ 64000 Pau‚ France CNRS – UMR 5603‚ Domaine Universitaire‚ Ba A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Received 24 December 2010 Received in revised form 12 December 2011 Accepted 14 December 2011 Available online 18 January 2012 In risk studies‚ a large scope of approaches has already
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What is Risk Taking? What is risk taking. Risk concerns the deviation of one or more results of one or more future events from their expected value. Risk taking can have many definitions but in my opinion risk taking is doing something that is out of the ordinary‚ something that you don’t feel comfortable doing. Risk taking could be different for many people‚ what I see as taking a risk could be something normal for someone else. To me trying to wrestle an alligator is taking a risk but to people
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The Real Truth about Doubt I believe the dispute between the two virtues‚ certainty and doubt‚ is very controversial. Despite the clear sides that people have fixed themselves to‚ there are pros and cons to both. A person’s doubt can cloud their judgment. Yet it can also aid them in making the better decision‚ by questioning and eliminating the inferior options. On the other hand‚ a person’s certainty can blind them from seeing the truth. Regardless of these cons‚ both are necessary in the everyday
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The Merits of Environmental Uncertainty People are creatures of habit and have a need to know what the world has in store for us. We plan every aspect of our lives from what we will eat later in the day to what we will be doing 40 years from now when we retire. The business community is no different and seeks to plan and predict what the future will hold in terms of their success. We are at a point in time in which there is a great amount of uncertainty in the business community. Investors
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The 9/11 event changed a lot of lives‚ took a lot of lives‚ and changed every American’s everyday of living. We all remember where were‚ what we were doing‚ and who first let us know. We all remember like it was yesterday and we will always hold it in our hearts and never forget that feeling we felt when our stomachs dropped. Every American’s way of life changed after that day. One thing that definitely changed was the racism towards Muslims. Muslims in my opinion are simply human just like everyone
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Uncertainty avoidance 1….Uncertainty Avoidance‚ "a society ’s tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity". It reflects the extent to which members of a society attempt to cope with anxiety by minimizing uncertainty. The uncertainty avoidance dimension expresses the degree to which a person in society feels uncomfortable with a sense of uncertainty and ambiguity. The fundamental issue here is how a society deals with the fact that the future can never be known: should we try to control the future or
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Certainty and Insanity: Hamlet With no way to be absolutely certain about anything in life‚ it makes it hard to deliver the justice some may need. In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark‚ Hamlet never allows himself to come to an absolute certainty that Claudius killed his father. Whether it was his insanity or his morals‚ he is unable to take retribution for the murder of his father‚ which helps drive him insane. By not taking justice into his own hands‚ Hamlet’s indecision‚ and
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attack. I don’t remember a lot of details other than uncontrollable crying (the really ugly kind) and gasping for every breath as if it were my last. I was 24 at the time – barely out of college – and I’d already survived a lot of early 20’s angst‚ so what triggered the attack was pretty tame by comparison: I thought my boyfriend was on a short list for a promotion‚ resulting in an imminent move to Charlotte‚ North Carolina.That’s it.Not usually the stuff that results in convulsions on the floor. Still
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central theme is the elusiveness of knowledge and certainty‚ and this is manifested in the fact that 4 acts of the play consist of the protagonist’s hesitation and sadness‚ fear and anger. From it’s outset‚ the play establishes uncertainty through the interrogative dialogue between Barnardo‚ Marcellus and Horatio. “Whos there” … “Nay Stand and unfold yourself” … “what‚ is Horatio there” … “A piece of him” Having established a mood of fear and uncertainty‚ the apparition of a ghost sees Horatio state
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Risk Assessment Tools in Decision Making Article Review Risk assessment is a tool especially used in decision-making by the scientific and regulatory community. In Making Good Decisions‚ Peter Montague discusses the use of risk assessment‚ points out its lack of usefulness in his opinion‚ and posits that the current use of risk assessment today is largely unethical. He states that "Risk Assessment is one way of making decisions‚ but it is not the only way‚ and it is not the best way." (Montague
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