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Systemic Risk

Systems can be affected by critical events or shocks that occur outside or within the system. Systemic risk is associated with cascading impacts that spread within and across systems and sectors via the movements of people, goods, capital and information within and across boundaries. The spread of cascading impacts can lead to potentially existential consequences and system collapse across a range of time horizons.

Latest Systemic Risk additions in the Knowledge Base

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04 Mar 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic and the systemic nature of risk

The widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates the systemic nature of risk.
Documents and publications

Risk assessment of multireservoir joint flood control system under multiple uncertainties

Applied probabilistic simulation methods could simulate uncertainties in a multireservoir flood control system. The proposed risk analysis method could evaluate the risks of reservoir overtopping, flood flows exceeding a standard, and flood diversion.
Documents and publications

Food systems at risk: Transformative adaptation for long-term food security

This report examines how climate change is impacting agriculture, threatening national and global food systems. Longer-term, systemic approaches are needed to protect the lives and livelihoods of millions of small-scale farmers and herders.
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Disasters take heavy toll on agri-food systems as new threats emerge

New FAO report finds agricultural losses from natural hazards continue to soar, inflicting economic damage and undermining nutrition.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters
Update

2020: The year when crises converged

In 2020, Asia-Pacific saw the collision of climate extremes and COVID-19 transmission create cascading disasters with wide-ranging impacts on economies and populations.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP)
Update

STI based solutions for a resilient future

Science Technology and Innovation (STI) has been at the forefront of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP)
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Update

Governance at the heart of transformative disaster risk reduction

This article reflect on lessons learned from SEI’s resilience and disaster risk reduction work and highlight how to ensure effective governance for transformative DRR.
Stockholm Environment Institute
Update

Τhe disaster and health nexus amid the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges of protecting at-risk communities

This article explains how to address the cascading impacts of the health and disaster nexus to ensure that the development gains of the previous decade are not wiped out.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP)
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