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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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Documents and publications

Healthcare resilience: a meta-narrative systematic review and synthesis of reviews

This study aims to explore and synthesise evidence about healthcare resilience and present a unified framework for future resilience-building.
A swollen river in Asayita, Ethiopia due to heavy rainfall
Research briefs

Compounding natural hazards and high vulnerability led to severe impacts from Horn of Africa flooding exacerbated by climate change and Indian Ocean Dipole

After years of drought the short rainy season in the Horn of Africa brought exceptionally heavy rains, particularly in November, leading to severe flooding in the South of Ethiopia, Eastern Kenya and many regions in southern and central Somalia.
World Weather Attribution
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Documents and publications

Cascading climate risks: strategic recommendations for European resilience

The European Union is not prepared to manage cascading climate risks. This report presents 21 strategic recommendations for building resilience in Europe and beyond.
Sun above a city
Update

This is the world’s hottest autumn on record – and it’s impacting the climate system and human society

We are still getting used to a “new normal” of devastating summer heatwaves. But the effects of a warming climate are being felt throughout the year, and recent autumn months have been further off the charts than ever.
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Cover and source: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Documents and publications

Hazard assessment of a pair of glacial lakes in Nepal Himalaya: Unfolding combined outbursts of Upper and Lower Barun

Due to climate change, the future Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) risk is more likely in the Himalayas. Despite several GLOF studies, little attention has been given to the combined or cascading GLOF events.
A man treks the banks of a lake high up Nepal near Mt. Everest
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New UN University report warns about risk tipping points with irreversible impacts on people and planet

Drastic changes are approaching if risks to our fundamental socioecological systems are not addressed.
United Nations University
Cover and source: United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security
Documents and publications

Interconnected disaster risks 2023

The 2023 Interconnected Disaster Risks report analyses six interconnected risk tipping points, selected for their representation of large global issues, which are changing lives across the world.
Cover and source: Cascades
Documents and publications

The role of Europe in building system-wide resilience to cross-border climate impacts

This report discusses how the European Union (EU) and the EU member states address cascading and cross-border climate impacts in agri-food systems in third countries with close ties to Europe.

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