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This chapter considers the importance of threats and hazards to organisation and staging of the Olympics. It relates wider debates about the rise of risk management in the public and private sectors to the Olympic experience of risk and changes over time in organising strategies used to manage and mitigate risks. It first presents a theoretical dissection of different forms of Olympic risk: highlighting cross-cutting internal-external and national-transnational dimensions. It then proceeds to as

First Author: Richards, Anthony; Fussey, Pete; Silke, Andrew
Attributed to:  Going for Gold: The Olympics, Risk and Risk Management funded by ESRC

Abstract

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Terrorism and the Olympics: Major Event Security and Lessons for the Future (2010)

Page Reference: 135-162

ISBN: 9780415499392