Provides an in-depth understanding of the challenging nature of events, where knowledge needs to be created and shared both pre-event and during the event, as well as stored effectively post-event. Generic KM frameworks and models are introduced, applied and adapted in order for event organisers to avoid ‘reinventing the wheel’ each year.

Explores in detail a range of leadership theories, providing insight into the developments that are driving leadership today and contextualises this into the specific demands of the event industry.

The first text to present a system for crowd management which integrates security with the other concerns for the health and safety for crowds, looking at the theories and practices of the management processes, plans, monitoring and evaluation of crowds.