Managing Emerging Risk

Providing ideas, tools, and a new way of thinking, this important guide introduces the concept of emerging risk and the effective mitigation of and response to unforeseen events. It describes new types of risks, their identification, and their implications for mass casualty and damage. Encouraging cooperation among services, it proposes response actions with regard to identification, mitigation, messaging, crisis communications, planning, and preparedness. It explains techniques for modeling new risks and threat outlooks, methods for calculating and creating strategy and tactics, and guidelines for conducting ongoing risk assessments.