COVID-19 Policy briefs

Policy briefs based on the outcomes of UNDRR's webinar series.

UNDRR Americas & Caribbean COVID-19 Brief: Science and Technology for DRR in the Context of COVID-19

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

UNDRR Americas & Caribbean COVID-19 Brief: People with disabilities in the face of COVID-19 in the Americas and the Caribbean

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

Conversion as an adaptation strategy for supply chain resilience to the COVID- 19 pandemic

This contributing paper proposes a new typology of an adaptation strategy – conversion strategy – as a countermeasure to manage risks in interconnected supply chains in the private sector during the pandemic.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

The challenge of Anthropocene risks

This contributing paper paper offers an analysis of the global COVID-19 experience and stepwise implementing consequences which will require a long-term effort involving scientists, decision-makers, and many more.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

A human security perspective in understanding risk information during the COVID-19 pandemic

This contributing paper examines access to emergency and related information during the COVID-19 pandemic as a crucial human security issue. 

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Understanding COVID-19 public health outcomes as a function of systemic risks and community resilience: A socio-technical assessment framework to inform governance strategies on social vulnerability, workforce exposure, and resource accessibility

This paper summarises the Argonne National Laboratory research team’s efforts in conducting these assessments to support local public health interventions in the City of Chicago, and the potential applications for communities throughout the world. 

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Supply chain resilience: The indirect economic implication of Sunda Strait (Krakatoa) tsunami and COVID-19 outbreak to the tourism hospitality supply chain in Pandeglang, Indonesia

This contributing paper delves into the impact of a tsunami and the COVID-19 pandemic on the coastal tourism sector in Pandeglang Regency (Banten Province) in Indonesia.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Establishing the nexus between cultural heritage and risk-informed sustainable development: Experiences of understanding and addressing systemic disaster risk from the World Heritage City of Ahmedabad

This contributing paper investigates the process of how the pandemic risk had been building in the World Heritage (old) city of Ahmedabad by considering the old city as a ‘system’ and its functional and operational dimensions as ‘sibling systems’.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

A global measure of the impact of COVID-19 in 2020, and a comparison to all other disasters (2000-2019)

This study uses a Lifeyears Index of disaster damage to assess the costs of the COVID-19 pandemic across countries against the costs of all other disasters that have occurred in all countries in the past 20 years.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Understanding and managing cascading and systemic risks: Lessons from COVID-19

The analysis of the COVID-19 crisis through multiple case studies unveiled complex and multi-faceted webs of cascading and systemic risks and impacts. Key in the analysis is the characterization of the network and system structure, and network dynamics.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

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