Martin Fone and Peter Young follow up the hugely successful Public Sector Risk Management with Managing Risks in Public Organisations. This insightful book provides an intellectual and analytical framework, in which readers will come to understand the issues central to managing risks in public organisations and recognise the strategies, tools and techniques necessary to implement effective risk management programs.

Written by experts, and based on extensive academic and practitioner research within the risk management field, the focus of this publication is on the unique challenge of managing risks in a public sector environment. Public sector risks exhibit many distinct attributes, and readers will learn about the special challenges that arise in assessing and addressing them.

Endorsed by the European Insitute for Risk Management (EIRM), ALARM, and The Institute of Risk Management.
'One of the few books to focus directly on risk management in the public sector, this is a valuable addition to the bookshelves of practitioners and students in this field.' - Alarm Matters

Risk, Uncertainty and the Management of Public Risk
Organisation Risk Management: The Conceptual Framework
Risk Management Programme Administration
Risk Management Decision Analysis
Public Sector Risk Management: History and Current Issues
Intergovernmental Pooling
The UK Political Environment
The Economic Environment
The Legal Environment
The Operational Environment: Partnering

MARTIN FONE works for Charles Taylor Consulting and his duties include the development of mutuals, risk retention groups and captive insurance arrangements. He started his insurance career with Municipal Mutual, having previously worked with Price Waterhouse, and also worked with Zurich Municipal and Munich-American RiskPartners. He has been at the forefront of developing integrated risk management programmes for the UK public sector and designing risk financing solutions aimed at maximizing the financial efficiencies of risk retention and transfer strategies.

PETER C. YOUNG occupies the E.W. Blanch, Sr. Chair in Risk Management at the University of St. Thomas College of Business, USA. He has been a Visiting Professor at the City University in London, Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, and most recently at Glasgow Caledonian University. Currently he is an external scholar and senior advisor at the European Institute for Risk Management in Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds a PhD in Risk Management from the University of Minnesota, USA, and a Master's Degree in Public Administration (State and Local Government) from the University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA. He is considered a leading expert on Risk Management, particularly in public sector organizations. He has written four books and has been published extensively in academic and practitioner journals as well. In addition to his academic work, he is a consultant to and advises numerous organizations in the insurance and risk management fields.