The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
How researchers, practitioners and institutions take part in Cities and Built Environment, and what taking part does and does not mean.
GCRI · In development · service level R0
Taking part in Cities and Built Environment is open to urban researchers, city officials and planners and to institutions and national programmes working on cities and built environment. Experts contribute knowledge, review or data; institutions follow the GCRI participation routes; countries go through the Consortium Secretariat. An enquiry receives a reference and creates no membership, role or influence over findings.
Fig.The path from an enquiry to a credited contribution. Design, not a record; no step creates membership.
For participation paths, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on night lights, population density and true-colour imagery with true colour from NASA GIBS, framed on India; 3 further NASA layers wait in the list.
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For participation paths, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on night lights, population density and true-colour imagery with true colour from NASA GIBS, framed on India; 3 further NASA layers wait in the list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
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Contribute expertise, review or data. Write to contact@therisk.global.
Country work goes through the Consortium Secretariat at contact@therisk.global.
Municipal datasets, community mapping done with consent and review of urban heat indicators are the main contributions; informal settlement data are accepted only with the safeguards agreed with residents.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Declaration of interests | A written statement in which an expert or participant discloses financial, professional and personal interests that could constitute a real, potential or apparent conflict of interest, so that others can judge and manage it; WHO uses this procedure for its experts. |
| Service level R0 | The current service level of Nexus pages: information and enquiries only. An enquiry receives a reference and a named next step; it creates no membership, contract, assignment or commitment. |
| Community of practice | A group of people who share a concern or a craft and learn to do it better by interacting regularly; the term comes from Lave and Wenger's work on situated learning. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.