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.

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Working paper

19 May 2022

Towards a critical technical practice in disaster risk management: Lessons from designing collaboration events

This contributing paper examines how the technical expertise of the engineering discipline as an input for risk knowledge may evolve into a 'critical' technical expertise.

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Working paper

19 May 2022

Building an effective collaboration between civil protection decision-makers and scientists for DRR: The Italian experience

This contributing paper aims to examine the need to effectively implement implement the interplay between technical decision-makers and the scientific community to achieve effective disaster risk reduction (DRR).

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Working paper

19 May 2022

A civil protection of proximity: Making a resilient community

This contributing paper takes a look at a new risk prevention and mitigation approach allowing residents and school community from susceptible areas to build a collective response to emergency situations in matters of prevention and intervention. 

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Working paper

19 May 2022

A human security perspective in understanding risk information during the COVID-19 pandemic

This contributing paper examines access to emergency and related information during the COVID-19 pandemic as a crucial human security issue. 

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Working paper

19 May 2022

Intersectoral research and multi-risk approaches in Québec: Systemic risk management and its psychosocial consequences

This contributing paper examines the complexity and challenges associated with climate change and systemic risks, presents some systemic frameworks of mental health determinants, and provides an overview of the types of psychosocial impacts of disasters

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Working paper

19 May 2022

Design and implementation of a relational model of risk communication

This contributing paper presents a relational model of risk communication that synthesizes decades of research on risk cognition and related themes.

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Working paper

19 May 2022

Grassroots adaptive social protection: Diverse benefits of survivors’ self-reconstruction efforts after Wenchuan earthquake

This contributing paper examines the interplay between official adaptive social protection (ASP) and grassroots efforts based on a case study of the rural reconstruction and recovery that took place after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China.

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Working paper

19 May 2022

Generating solutions to systemic risks through on-going experimentation on invested space-forms

This contributing paper assesses how private, public, and plural sector stakeholders can invest in joint platforms (SpaceForms) that foster creative solutions for systemic risks and hone their collective intelligence. 

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Working paper

19 May 2022

The need for a new narrative in an era of systemic existential threats

This contributing paper aims to assess how risk, as generally used and developed over several centuries, may not appropriate for the complex systemic and cascading threats now being faced.

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Working paper

19 May 2022

Bridging the gap between vulnerable groups and vulnerable situations: Towards an integrative perspective on vulnerability for disaster risk reduction

This contributing paper explores the concept of vulnerability which, despite official definitions it argues, remains highly contested with regard to its conceptualization and operationalization.