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Author: Challenger, Rose

Title: Understanding Crowd Behaviors

Summary: This practical report provides a comprehensive set of good gractice guidelines for crowd events and management, and for emergency situations and evacuations. It also provides a comprehesive set of good practice guidelines for simulating crowd behaviors, as a useful tool to aid event preparation. The report ends with a number of suggestions for future research so that practice may be improved. The five volumes are: Understanding Crowd Behaviours: A Guide for Readers; Understanding Crowd Behaviours: Guidance and Lessons Identified; Understanding Crowd Behaviours: Simulation Tools; Understanding Crowd Behaviours: Supporting Evidence; and Understanding Crowd Behaviours: Supporting Documentation.

Details: York, UK: Cabinet Office Emergency Planning College, 2009. 5 vols.

Source: Internet Resource

Year: 2009

Country: Uruguay

URL:

Shelf Number: 116267

Keywords:
Crowd Control
Event Planning
Sporting Events

Author: Jennings, Will

Title: Tools of Security Risk Management for the London 2012 Olympic Games and FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany

Summary: Mega-events such as the Olympic Games and the football World Cup represent a special venue for the practice of risk management. This paper explores management of security risks in the case of two sporting mega-events, the London 2012 Olympic Games and the FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany. The analysis progresses in three stages. First, it explores three explanations that have dominated the literature on policy instruments and tools and introduces the generic tools of government approach developed by Christopher Hood (1983). Second, it reviews the tools used for security risk management at the two mega-events. Third, it evaluates competing explanations of tool choice and degree to which these are consistent with organisational strategies of risk management at the events. The findings highlight the importance of national political systems in influencing tool choice.

Details: London: Centre fo Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics, 2009. 27p.

Source: CARR Discussion Paper No. 55: Internet Resource: Accessed August 13, 2012 at http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/36539/1/Disspaper55.pdf

Year: 2009

Country: International

URL: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/36539/1/Disspaper55.pdf

Shelf Number: 126012

Keywords:
Event Planning
Risk Management
Sporting Events

Author: Jennings, Will

Title: Mega-Events and Risk Colonisation: Risk Management and the Olympics

Summary: This paper uses the idea of risk colonisation (Rothstein et al. 2006) to analyse how societal and institutional risks simultaneously make mega-events such as the Olympics a problematic site for risk management while contributing to the spread of the logic and formal managerial practice of risk management. It outlines how mega-events are linked to broader societal and institutional hazards and threats but at the same time induce their own unique set of organizational pathologies and biases. In this context, it is argued that the combination of societal and institutional risks create pressure for safety and security which in turn give rise to the growing influence of risk as an object of planning, operations and communication both in organisation of the Games and governance of the Olympic movement. This is consistent with the colonizing influence of risk over time: both in the creation of formal institutions (such as risk management teams and divisions) and the proliferation of the language of 'risk' as an object of regulation and control.

Details: London: Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012. 31p.

Source: Internet Resource: Discussion Paper No. 71: Accessed October 8, 2015 at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/accounting/CARR/pdf/DPs/Disspaper71.pdf

Year: 2012

Country: United Kingdom

URL: http://www.lse.ac.uk/accounting/CARR/pdf/DPs/Disspaper71.pdf

Shelf Number: 136978

Keywords:
Event Planning
Olympics
Risk Management
Security
Sports