Event Risk Management Solutions - ERMS

FROM RISK TO RESILIENCE: CONTEMPORARY INSIGHTS INTO EVENT RISK MANAGEMENT
8,000 words later, just submitted my chapter contribution for publication. The chapter abstract:
Drawing upon the existing body of literature for event risk management, from Berlonghi (1990) to a recent 2019 industry survey on event risk management practices (Ashwin and Wilson, 2020), this chapter explores contemporary risk issues in today’s volatile, ambiguous, complex and uncertain world. First, the inter-related risk constructs pertaining to socio-cultural theoretical perspectives of risk will be discussed; to what extent does an event organizers perception of risk influence their approach to risk management and decision-making? Following on, the second part of the chapter explores first, the cyber-criminal threat to event digital eco-systems; and second, domestic terrorism, the evoving threat from homegrown violent extremists, domestic violent extremists and ‘lone wolves’. Finally, new perspectives for risk mitigation and event resilience will be offered including situational crime prevention, an evidence-based criminological perspective and other ‘real world’ applications for event organizers to enhance event team preparedness and resilience to adversity and uncertainty.