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This report contributes to deepening our collective understanding of the potential role of DRR within the HDP nexus; a gap identified as part of the consultative processes leading up to the Mid-Term Review of the Sendai Framework. We do not focus here on the challenges and barriers to action. Drawing on an extensive review of published material as well…
This contributing paper examines how different constituent systems (sibling systems) of a larger system react and propagate reverberations affecting the overall system using a novel visualisation tool – Sibling System State Diagram (SSSD). The tools that are currently used to assess disaster risk have major limitations, like the inability to model…
This study delves into multilateral and systemic disruption of critical infrastructure (CI) networks to assess the systemic resilience of CI “network-of-networks”. The study defines systemic resilience as the stability and reliability of the entire public services provided by the network-of-networks of CI. Consequently, this study proposes a r…
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This contributing paper analyses systemic risk and compound vulnerabilities, by highlighting a case study to help decision-makers formulate effective strategies to address the nature of systemic risks in their societies. The researchers put a spotlight on several risks and propose actions and policy recommendations. These spotlights include i) extreme w…
This contributing paper aims to assess how risk, as generally used and developed over several centuries, may not appropriate for the complex systemic and cascading threats now being faced. The refinement of the concept and its application has been about increased precision and accuracy. It argues that global systemic risks do not lend themselves to…
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This Briefing Note represents an integrated perspective of climate, environmental and disaster risk science and practice regarding systemic risk. It provides an overview of the concepts of systemic risk that have evolved over time and identifies commonalities across terminologies and perspectives associated with systemic risk used in different contexts.…
There is growing evidence that the worst-case scenario at a global scale – an existential risk – is increasingly likely and driven by technological development. The concerns of this report are biotechnology and artificial intelligence, as major drivers of accelerating change. Importantly, both existential risk and technological hazards are within the sc…
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. Supply chain disruptions due to natural hazards have been studied in major manufacturing-centered economies, such as Thailand, the US, Japan, and…
This contributing paper examines the need to create new governing systems at the local level that allow actors and institutions to simultaneously manage the interplays of single and multi-hazards, multi-temporal, multiple dimensions of vulnerabilities, poverty reduction, unplanned urbanisation, environmental degradation and other residual risks. Th…
This contributing paper examines and describes the complexity and the challenges associated with climate change and systemic risks, presents some systemic frameworks of mental health determinants, and provides an overview of the different types of psychosocial impacts of disasters. Through various Quebec case studies and using lessons learned from past…
This contributing paper assesses how private, public, and plural sector stakeholders can invest in joint platforms (SpaceForms) that foster creative solutions for systemic risks and hone their collective intelligence. The study notes that mitigating local risks does not reduce the global systemic effects. Sustainable solutions must involve bus…
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. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented extraordinary challenges to every community across the globe. Yet…
This contributing paper investigates the process of how the risk, the translation of which contributed to faster transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and relatively higher deaths due to COVID-19 during the first wave, had been building in the World Heritage (old) city of Ahmedabad over a period of more than 600 years by considering the old city as a ‘system’ and…
The ‘Scoping study on compound, cascading and systemic risks in the Asia-Pacific’, undertaken by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and Asia Pacific Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (AP-STAG), presents an important opportunity to explore the challenges and potential associated with better understanding and managing of c…
The central question for this Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 (GAR2022) is how governance systems can evolve to better address the systemic risks of the future. In today’s crowded and interconnected world, disaster impacts increasingly cascade across geographies and sectors, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-…

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