XI. Legacy Considerations
Security legacy has been defined as “a range of tangible and intangible security strategies, structures and impacts (positive and negative) created for and by a sport mega-event that continue to have significance beyond the life of the event itself”.112 Beyond this definition, slightly adapting a categorization suggested by Giulianotti and Klauser (2010) for types of security legacy associated with MSEs,113 this chapter will consider five kinds of security legacies associated with MSEs, namely:
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Preuss, H. (2007b),‘The conceptualisation and measurement of mega sport event legacies’, Journal of Sport & Tourism, 12(3-4), pp. 207-228.
113 Cf. Giulianotti, R. and Klauser, F., “Security Governance and Sport Mega-events: Toward an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda”; see https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Security-Governance-and-Sport-Mega-events%3A-Toward-Giulianotti-Klauser/aeaeb821bfbda2a7914082b98679cb0e845a16bc. The following six categories are suggested by these authors: 1.Technologies; 2. Practices; 3. Governmental policies and new legislation; 4. Externally imposed social transformations; 5. Generalized changes in social and trans-societal relations; 6. Urban redevelopment.
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