Special events : the brave new world for bolder and better live events / Shawn Seungwon Lee and Joe Goldblatt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Welcome to greener event leadership and economic success -- Changing paradigms for greener leadership and social change -- Composing the sustainable event plan -- Event leadership and human resources management -- Financial sustainability -- Ensuring a safer and more secure event environment -- The virtual view of live events -- Reinvesting a joyful and sustainable career -- Global, national and local best practices in event leadership -- Twenty real world event management experience and mini case studies -- Appendices 1 to 19 and accompanying image gallery are available online

"Understand and appreciate the importance of economic, social, cultural, political, technological and environmental sustainability for planned events. Recognize and understand the economic, social, political, cultural, technological and environmental changes that are affecting the global events industry. Identify and benefit from the demographic changes affecting the global event industry. Utilize the psychographic changes affecting event length, purpose, and outcomes to improve performance Recognize and analyze the multitudinous challenges facing the events industry including financial, security, labor, ecological, and other critical areas. Identify new and emerging career opportunities in this growing field. Understand why education has become the most important factor in the growth of planned events. Identify industry certification programs. Advance your career throughout the twenty-first century. Develop new ways to sustain your career"-- Provided by publisher.