GAR2022: Contributing Papers

The central question for this Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 (GAR2022) is how governance systems can evolve to better address the systemic risks of the future. Developed through an extensive set of partnerships, the GAR is both an ongoing process of generating evidence, knowledge and policy engagement, as well as an opportunity to showcase trends and report on progress. This page contains the Contributing Papers to the GAR2022.

Documents and publications

Working paper

25 May 2022

Projecting effects of climate change in the framework of the INFORM Risk Index

This contributing paper presents an extension of the INFORM Risk Index, a global indicator-based disaster risk assessment tool, using projections of exposure to climate change hazards to provide better insights for policymakers.

Documents and publications

Working paper

24 May 2022

Conversion as an adaptation strategy for supply chain resilience to the COVID- 19 pandemic

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.

Documents and publications

Working paper

24 May 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.

Documents and publications

Working paper

24 May 2022

The GEO Indigenous Alliance: Perspectives, opportunities and challenges of Earth Observations for disaster risk reduction

This contributing paper presents how Indigenous Peoples are co-creating data platforms and technological tools that weave together Indigenous and Western knowledge and scientific Earth observations (EO) for disaster risk reduction.

Documents and publications

Working paper

24 May 2022

Integrating indigenous knowledge and State-of-Art Earth Observation solutions for the Sendai Framework implementation

This paper discusses potential of earth observation (EO) in providing simplistic and operational tools for the systemic risk analysis to complement Indigenous Knowledges covering nature-based solutions (NBS).

Documents and publications

Working paper

24 May 2022

Transdisciplinary application of Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) to characterize atmospheric hazards and model systemic risk

This contributing paper takes a look at the use of radio occultation to infer temperature and improve modeling for wildfire risk. 

Documents and publications

Working paper

24 May 2022

Identification of the highest risk buildings in Mexico City

This article summarizes the seismic risk analysis of Mexico City, based on a detailed database constructed with information provided by the city but also with tools such as geomatics and machine learning.

Documents and publications

Working paper

24 May 2022

The role of public and private sectors in disaster capitalism: An international overview

This contributing paper explores the role and the contribution of the public and private sectors in the (re)production and accumulation of disaster risks from a disaster capitalism optic.

Documents and publications

Working paper

20 May 2022

Boosting systemic risk governance: Perspectives and insights from understanding national systems approaches for dealing with disaster and climate risks

This contributing paper reviews the governance of systemic risk with the aim to identify opportunities and enabling factors for improving governance by managing what are increasingly interdependent risks with the potential for cascading impacts.

Documents and publications

Working paper

20 May 2022

Transitions towards systemic sustainability in the Anthropocene

This contributing paper explores the necessity of reflexive and adaptive systemic transitions and deep institutional change for socio-ecological sustainability to occur.