Strategic Risk and Crisis Management: A Handbook for Modelling and Managing Complex Risks

by David Rubens, David Rubens (Foreword by)

Overview

From natural disasters to cyber-attacks to global pandemics, the modern risk environment is highly complex and challenges our fundamental understanding of risk and crisis management.

All senior risk and crisis managers face a similar challenge: maximizing their organization's ability to prepare for a potential high-impact event. Blending practical insights with rigorous research, Strategic Risk and Crisis Management provides a range of realistic solutions for any operational environment. It introduces concepts, frameworks and processes that will allow businesses to not only survive but respond and recover at a time of maximum chaos and confusion.

Authored by a recognized global authority on the strategic management of complex events, the book covers the integration of multiple stakeholders and the importance of information exchange and critical decision-making under pressure at strategic, tactical and operational levels. It also includes material on leadership, sense-making, resilience, wicked problems and the challenges of global urban resilience, as well as case studies with detailed analysis of organizational failures and the lessons learned, including COVID-19, the WannaCry attack, the Texas snowstorm, and the Gatwick Airport Drone Incident. Strategic Risk and Crisis Management is an essential read for professionals working in security, risk, crisis management and emergency response. It will also be a valuable text for university students taking modules on security, risk, emergency response and crisis management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781398609754
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	02/28/2023
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 0.79(h) x 9.45(d)

About the Author

David Rubens is Professor in the United Nations Universityfor Peace European Centre for Peace and Development (Belgrade), where he is Programme Director for the International Postgraduate Study Programme in Strategic Risk and Crisis Management. He founded the Institute of Strategic Risk Management in 2018, which has established itself as a leading platform for academics, practitioners and policy makers across the range of security, risk and crisis management-related sectors.

Table of Contents

** Chapter - 00: Introduction ** Chapter - 01: Setting the scene - An overview of historical crisis management research; ** Chapter - 02: Corporate risk management in the 2020s; ** Chapter - 03: Black swans + grey rhinos – being ready; ** Chapter - 04: Causes of crisis management failure; ** Chapter - 05: Incident command systems and hierarchical management; ** Chapter - 06: Leadership; ** Chapter - 07: Resilience; ** Chapter - 08: The regulatory system – a failing safety net; ** Chapter - 09: Global urban resilience in the 2020s; ** Chapter - 10: Creating the new urban order; ** Chapter - 11: In the stranglehold of a pandemic - learning from Covid-19; ** Chapter - 12: Wicked problems; ** Chapter - 13: Case studies;

Editorial Reviews

"Crisis management practitioners have recognized for years that a definitive and detailed handbook that can help all levels of those involved in crisis management planning, policy or execution is needed. This is now available, and I strongly recommend anybody and everybody interested or engaged in crisis management have this book in quick and easy reach."

David Horobin

"This is the right book at the right time. This is an imaginative, far sighted and relevant book, and I take great pleasure in recommending it for anyone interested in any aspect of strategic risk and crisis management."

Professor Ljiljana Markovic PhD

"David Rubens provides an incredibly timely and indispensable guide, equipping managers, policy makers, and all of us with the knowledge and insights for managing complex risks that we need if we are to find a safe course through the treacherous waters that lie before us."

Stephen Flynn

"This handbook is extremely useful and timely, as it fills the gap between academia and practitioner, providing vital insights to discuss complex risks whilst providing a framework for action."

Xavier Castellanos

"Captivating. David Rubens has brought a lifetime of scholarship and practical work on Risk and Crisis Management to a subject we spend too little time thinking, or more importantly, doing something about. His entertaining stories and practical lessons offer a supremely useful handbook for everyone who confronts risks and crises in today's world - that's all of us."

General Stanley McChrystal

"There is an ever-increasing need to look at strategic risk and crisis management from a meta-perspective, allowing both high level integration of multiple stakeholders but also ensuring that there is meaningful engagement in the issues facing communities around the world. David Rubens' book offers both a deeply researched and highly detailed academic analysis combined with a practical approach that will have real value for practitioners, whatever area of risk management they are involved in."

Nadine Sulkowski

"In a world of chaos and instability, this book matches formal academic rigour with a deep understanding of the challenges that the world is throwing at us. It offers the reader a structure and methodology that is invaluable in developing frameworks that would support our own activities within the regional and global risk environment we are all operating in."

Marqueza Cathalina L. Reyes