Systemic risk

This article investigates the unprecedented fire disaster that destroyed over 16,000 structures and caused 31 fatalities. Urban firestorms are a growing hazard in fire-prone regions worldwide due to increasingly dry vegetation.

As world leaders gather in Brazil for COP30, climate resilience and adaptation are at the top of the news agenda. Built environment professionals have long been helping to shape the future of how we live in a changing world - no more so than in London.

This study systematically reviews 946 studies about Human Mobility under disasters, framing mobility as simultaneously responding to external shocks and transmitting impacts.

Policy teams in central government departments and specialized agencies now have access to STEER, a guided framework about systemic risks, spot gaps in current approaches, compare options, and design context-specific responses.

This article hopes to broaden the systemic risk literature, traditionally focused on finance, infrastructure, and food systems, towards a more integrated account that includes human health and wellbeing as central to resilience.

This study explores how Norwegian leaders in rural municipalities attend to disaster risk governance and prepare for resilient response to threats from systemic, interconnected, and cascading hazards.

A new paper by Northeastern University professor Samuel Munoz reports that the risk of shipping disruptions will grow in a warming climate unless steps are taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or to adapt to drier conditions.

Recent flooding in various Himalayan states have been widely attributed to cloudbursts, but experts say the label masks systemic failures.