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The COVID-19 pandemic and the systemic nature of risk

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The widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates the systemic nature of risk. This series explores what needs to change so the world can shift from managing disaster to managing risk.

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A woman wearing a face mask to protect herself from COVID-19 walking across a yellow bridge.
Updates
14 March 2023

Remembering the lessons of COVID-19 to build resilience for future shocks in Europe and Central Asia

Systems that provide better quality services in normal times have to a large extent better capacity to respond to crises. Many reforms, with minor twists, can therefore support both long-term development outcomes.
World Bank, the
Man upset headache depressed from family cost got higher doing accounting holding receipts from supermarket with calculator by rising grocery prices and surging cost as an inflation financial crisis.
Updates
4 October 2022

COVID and the cost of living crisis are set to collide this winter – the fallout will be greatest for the most vulnerable

The cost of living crisis is affecting people around the world. Although it’s been building for some time, the fact that this crisis comes hot on the heels of an ongoing pandemic only makes matters worse.
Conversation Media Group, the
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Documents and publications
2022

Governance strategies in Indonesia for addressing systemic risks: Where do we stand and the future outlook

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 and other residual risks.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
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Documents and publications
2022

Exploring the concept of disaster risk balancing through the interaction of sibling systems within larger systems of interest: Developing a framework to understand the systemic nature of disaster risk

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). 
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
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Documents and publications
2022

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
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Documents and publications
2022

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
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Documents and publications
2022

Unprecedented & unfinished: COVID-19 and implications for national and global policy

This new report from the International Science Council outlines plausible scenarios for the COVID-19 pandemic to consider the options for achieving the most desirable end to the crisis
International Science Council
Migrant workers walk on the highway on their journey back home during a nationwide lockdown to fight the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai, India (2020)
Updates
17 May 2022

COVID-19 likely to worsen inequalities for at least five years without renewed global cooperation, warns International Science Council

The Council’s new report maps out scenarios for the year 2027 and calls for UN to establish a Science Advisory Board to inform future pandemic response.
International Science Council
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Documents and publications
2021

Industrial Development Report 2022: The future of industrialization in a post-pandemic world

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world unlike any other crisis in recent history. What began as a disease in a confined, specific location in the fall of 2019 soon became an unstoppable wave that transformed every aspect of daily life globally.
United National Industrial Development Organization
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Documents and publications
2021

Adding the resilience dimensions to industrial policy: Lessons from COVID-19

This paper focuses on how resilience considerations can be better integrated into industrial policy, building on the guidance offered by the Sendai Framework and the broader emergency management literature.
United National Industrial Development Organization

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