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Displaying 9 of about 9 resultsThis report focuses on systemic risks and lessons for risk management and recovery in the Southern African Development Community. Examining case studies in the Republics of Malawi and South Africa, this report provides an understanding of how the pandemic and concurrent hazards have exacerbated risks in specific contexts, and provides recommendations, v…
This contributing paper proposes a new typology of an adaptation strategy – conversion strategy – as a countermeasure to manage risks in interconnected supply chains in the private sector during the pandemic. Supply chain disruptions due to natural hazards have been studied in major manufacturing-centered economies, such as Thailand, the US, Japan, and…
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. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented extraordinary challenges to every community across the globe. Yet…
This contributing paper investigates the process of how the risk, the translation of which contributed to faster transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and relatively higher deaths due to COVID-19 during the first wave, had been building in the World Heritage (old) city of Ahmedabad over a period of more than 600 years by considering the old city as a ‘system’ and…
The analysis of the COVID-19 crisis through multiple case studies unveiled complex and multi-faceted webs of cascading and systemic risks and impacts. Key in the analysis is the characterization of the network and system structure, and network dynamics. Informed by the case studies, expert consultation and literature review, the CARICO concept…
This report outlines the importance of applying a systemic risk lens to help prevent the escalation and reduce the impact of future pandemics. It also outlines a number of key reforms required within global governance systems to facilitate this change. This includes not only strengthening and integrating health agendas into governance systems but also l…
This study aims to explore and synthesise evidence about healthcare resilience and present a unified framework for future resilience-building. The COVID-19 pandemic has tested global healthcare resilience. Many countries previously considered ‘resilient’ have performed poorly. Available organisational and system frameworks tend to be context-dependent a…
This document has been developed as an outcome of the 2 days virtual workshop conducted jointly by the Government of India and the Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management for the BIMSTEC Member Countries on the 17th and 18th of September, 2021. Against the backdrop of human-induced hazards and disaster risks, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk…
This review aims to distil lessons related to the transboundary management of systemic risks from the COVID-19 experience, to inform climate change policy and resilience building. COVID-19 has revealed how challenging it is to manage global, systemic and compounding crises. Like COVID-19, climate change impacts, and maladaptive responses to them, h…