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Olympic risks / Will Jennings.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Executive politics and governancePublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.Description: xiv, 263 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230300064
  • 0230300065
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.48068 JEN
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: RISK AND MEGA-EVENTS -- Risk and Governing Mega-Events -- The Olympics as a Mega-Event -- PART II: THE OLYMPICS, RISK AND UNCERTAINTY -- Olympic Risks -- Decision-Making Under Uncertainty -- Counting the Costs and Benefits of the Games -- PART III: GOVERNING THE GAMES -- Managing Olympic Risks -- Public Opinion and Reputational Risk -- The Risks of Risk Management -- Conclusions.
Summary: An exploration of how the Olympics are organized in response to risk. This book looks at the tension between the riskiness of mega-events, attributable to their scale and complexities, and the societal, political and organizational pressures that exist for safety, security and management of risk - leading to changes in how the Games are governed-- Provided by publisher.
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Standard Loan Moylish Library Main Collection 796.48068 JEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100504779

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An exploration of how the Olympics are organised in response to risk. This book looks at the tension between the riskiness of mega-events, attributable to their scale and complexities, and the societal, political and organisational pressures that exist for safety, security and management of risk - leading to changes in how the Games are governed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: RISK AND MEGA-EVENTS -- Risk and Governing Mega-Events -- The Olympics as a Mega-Event -- PART II: THE OLYMPICS, RISK AND UNCERTAINTY -- Olympic Risks -- Decision-Making Under Uncertainty -- Counting the Costs and Benefits of the Games -- PART III: GOVERNING THE GAMES -- Managing Olympic Risks -- Public Opinion and Reputational Risk -- The Risks of Risk Management -- Conclusions.

An exploration of how the Olympics are organized in response to risk. This book looks at the tension between the riskiness of mega-events, attributable to their scale and complexities, and the societal, political and organizational pressures that exist for safety, security and management of risk - leading to changes in how the Games are governed-- Provided by publisher.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Tables (p. x)
  • List of Figures (p. xi)
  • Acknowledgements (p. xii)
  • Introduction: Governing the Games in an Age of Uncertainty (p. 1)
  • Part I Risk and Mega-Events
  • 1 Risk, Governance and Mega-Events (p. 11)
  • 2 Costs, Complexity and Size of the Games (p. 29)
  • Part II The Olympics, Risk and Uncertainty
  • 3 Risk and the Games (p. 41)
  • 4 Decision-Making under Uncertainty (p. 64)
  • 5 Counting the Costs and the Benefits of the Games (p. 94)
  • Part III Governing the Games
  • 6 Managing Olympic Risks (p. 117)
  • 7 Public Opinion and Reputational Risk (p. 203)
  • 8 The Risks of Risk Management (p. 223)
  • Notes (p. 240)
  • Bibliography (p. 242)
  • Index (p. 261)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Will Jennings is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Southampton, UK, and Research Associate at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He specialises in the analysis of government and public opinion, research methods and risk management in mega-projects and mega-events.

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