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Introduction

Global supply chains and transport networks form the backbone of the global economy, fuelling trade, consumption and economic growth. Disruptions to supply chains can prove costly. Examining the systemic supply chain risk landscape and the possibility of these risks causing serious disruptions to global supply chains highlights the need to shift focus from reactive to proactive risk management.

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Tourists traverse the side of a road eroded by floods in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand
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Climate extremes make NZ’s supply chains highly vulnerable – it’s time to rethink how we grow and ship food

Over the decades, New Zealand has centralised its food system and increased the risk that a single regional event could reverberate nationally. But it’s not too late to diversify and increase resilience across our food supply system.
Conversation Media Group, the
Port of Libreville, Gabon
Research briefs

Exploring the multi-billion-dollar risk to economic activity from climate extremes affecting ports

More than $122 billion of economic activity—$81 billion in international trade—is at risk from the impact of extreme climate events, according to new research from Oxford's Environmental Change Institute.
Oxford University
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Documents and publications
2023

Conversion strategy builds supply chain resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: A typology and research directions

This study proposes a novel typology of adaptation to hazards—a conversion strategy as a countermeasure to manage risks in interconnected supply chains.
Progress in Disaster Science (Elsevier)
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Documents and publications
2023

Contesting legitimacy in global environmental governance - An exploration of transboundary climate risk management in the Brazilian-German coffee supply-chain

In this paper, the authors unpack the contested nature of legitimacy by examining the governance of TCRs in agricultural supply-chains. Stronger interconnections are changing the scope and nature of global environmental governance.
Earth System Governance (Elsevier)
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7 essentials to create a resilient global healthcare supply chain

It was 20 years ago, when the SARS outbreak exposed key fragilities in the global healthcare supply chain. Yet today, nearly three years into the COVID-19 pandemic many of the same supply-chain fragilities remain.
World Economic Forum
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Documents and publications
2022

Impacts of climate change on global food trade networks

This paper investigates the long-term (2070–2099) potential impacts of climate change on global food trade networks of three key crops: wheat, rice and maize.
Environmental Research Letters (IOP)
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Government of Canada launches a new initiative to address climate change impacts on rail lines

Recent events have shown the impacts climate change and extreme weather events can have on communities and transportation networks. This is why the Government of Canada is taking important steps towards addressing climate change on railway infrastructure.
CisionWire
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Economic losses from hurricanes become too big to be offset by the US if warming continues

Hurricane damages can increase due to increasing global temperatures, caused by GHG from fossil fuels. Computer simulations of economic sectors and supply chains in the US show that the resulting economic losses can at some point not be nationally offset
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Research briefs

Transportation recovery after disasters: a collaborative university/community model

Transportation systems play a critical role in maintaining supply chains for effective post-disaster recovery.
Portland State University EurekAlert
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Rhine's low water levels hit German shipping, minister touts dredging

Industrial production tends to decrease when water levels on the Rhine River remain low, a challenge to German industry also dealing with heightened tensions around supply chains and other resources.
Deutsche Welle

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