Description
Book SynopsisFrom Main Street to Mumbai, Managing Emerging Risk: The Capstone of Preparedness considers the new global drivers behind threats and hazards facing all those tasked with protecting the public and private sector. The text delves into the global mindset of public and private sector emergency managers and presents a new risk landscape vastly different from the one existing ten years ago.
The book begins by presenting a series of fictitious scenarios each resulting in mass destruction and fatalities. These are each followed by actual news stories that support the scenarios and demonstrate that the proposed eventsseemingly unthinkablehave the potential to occur. Next, the author identifies two drivers in the practice of emergency management and general preparedness today that constitute our view of the future and the new face of risk. The first is the Disaster Halo Effectthe idea that modern threats exhibit more than one event. The second is the wor
Table of Contents
Imagine This. The New Face of Risk and the Market State. Scenario Planning, Strategy, and Risk Assessments for an Unknown Future. Sources of Data for First Event Scenarios. Tracking Memes: Data Trends and the Diffusion of Innovation. Coolhunters and Pattern Recognition. Putting the Market State to Use, Application, Practice, and Understanding. Tracking Memes: Data Trends and the Diffusion of Innovation. Engaging in a New State of Practice. Index.
