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GCRIDisaster Resilience and RecoveryIn development
Mandate and publisher

Mandate and publisher

Disaster Resilience and Recovery is published by The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), a research, development and policy institution, working across Canada and the United States. This page sets out the platform's mandate, who is responsible for it, the limits of its role and its current state.

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In this dossier6 parts
  1. 01In briefThe short answer
  2. 02MandateEvidence on readiness, response and recovery
  3. 03PublisherWho is responsible
  4. 04LimitsWhat the platform does not do
  5. 05Key termsTerms used on this page
  6. 06How it is designed to workFrom question to reviewed evidence

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01In brief

The short answer.

Disaster Resilience and Recovery is a specialist platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation for disaster and crisis as well as climate and hazards. Its mandate covers risk reduction, readiness, emergency systems and recovery capacities across communities and institutions. GCRI publishes it, answers for its content and takes no decision on anyone's behalf. It is in development at service level R0, and activities open as each is ready.

02Canvas

Mandate to authority.

Canvas · mandate to authorityDesign, not a record
How Disaster Resilience and Recovery is governedA mandate sets the platform's scope; an editor and reviewers govern what it publishes; programmes and the community supply the work; the integrity route handles corrections; authority over decisions stays outside. Design of the governance, not a record.

Fig.How the platform is governed, from its mandate to the authorities who decide. Design, not a record.

03Geography

People and hazards in the Philippines.

For mandate and publisher, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on population density, flood water and true-colour imagery with true colour from NASA GIBS, framed on the Philippines; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.

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Layers 3

People and hazards, for this page

Latest available

NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth

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For mandate and publisher, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on population density, flood water and true-colour imagery with true colour from NASA GIBS, framed on the Philippines; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · GDACS · Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2A · NASA HLS S30Sources and licences

  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. 2018. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11. NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). CC BY 4.0
  • VIIRS near-real-time products (flood, land surface temperature, snow cover, corrected reflectance), NASA LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • VIIRS Black Marble night-time lights, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; distributed by the NASA Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), VIIRS 375 m active fire product, NASA LANCE; vector tiles via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • MODIS land products (vegetation indices, gross primary production, land cover), NASA LP DAAC and LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). ODbL
  • Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Context on the globe and flat map: coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names from NASA GIBS reference layers (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Blue Marble imagery as an optional base; 3D terrain and the elevation read-out from the ASTER GDEM elevation colour index (5 m to 200 m classes, exaggerated for legibility). Boundaries are drawn as published and imply no position on any territory.
  • Globe: MapLibre GL JS 6.9.1, BSD-3-Clause, © MapLibre contributors.
  • Live: GDACS (EC JRC / UN OCHA) Events are indicative, not official warnings.
  • Observed (EO): Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2A (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026), Microsoft Planetary Computer
  • Observed (EO): NASA HLS S30 (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026). We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
  • Optional layers (35 sources in the layer list: live, forecast, observed and context) print their provider credit on the map and here when switched on; forecasts are model output and derived indices are estimates.

Layers and dates

  • Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
  • Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
  • True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
  • Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • Active fires and thermal anomalies, last day: VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS), NASA LANCE FIRMS · 13 Oct 2026
  • Land cover type (IGBP), yearly: MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1), NASA LP DAAC · 2024

04Mandate

Evidence on readiness, response and recovery.

The platform exists to strengthen the evidence base for risk reduction, preparedness, emergency systems and recovery across communities and institutions. Its focus is institutional and social capacity: whether arrangements work when tested, and which recovery choices leave places safer.

Field

Scope

Disaster and crisis, with links to climate and hazards.

Community

Who takes part

Disaster scholars, emergency planners, recovery specialists and humanitarian analysts.

Outputs

What it is designed to publish

Preparedness evidence guides, recovery case studies and capacity models.

05Publisher

Who is responsible.

The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) publishes Disaster Resilience and Recovery and answers for its content, under the review and correction rules set out in trust, rights and status.

  • Status: Disaster Resilience and Recovery is in development. Activities, records and services are published as each one opens.
  • Service level: R0, information and enquiries.
  • Why a dedicated platform: preparedness and institutional recovery have their own research community and methods, distinct from physical hazard modelling at Climate and Hazards.
06Limits

What the platform does not do.

  • It does not regulate, license, certify or approve any plan, organization or product.
  • It does not issue warnings, declare emergencies or direct response; those belong to competent authorities.
  • It does not arrange or approve finance. Disaster finance is examined as sector understanding at Disaster Risk Finance at GRA, and governance dialogue happens at Disaster and Crisis Governance at GRF.
  • It does not publish personal data about people affected by disasters, and case studies are anonymised unless consent is recorded.

Taking part, hosting or sponsorship gives no authority or influence over findings.

07Key terms

Terms used on this page.

Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.

TermDefinition
Service level R0The 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.
Conflict of interestA situation in which financial, professional or personal interests could compromise, or appear to compromise, judgement in research or review.
DisasterA serious disruption of the functioning of a community or society due to hazardous events interacting with exposure, vulnerability and capacity.
Disaster risk reductionPreventing new and reducing existing disaster risk and managing residual risk, contributing to resilience and sustainable development.
08How it is designed to work

From question to reviewed evidence.

  1. 01

    Questions

    Research questions come from the platform's topics and from practitioners, and are scoped in research and evidence.

  2. 02

    Evidence

    Methods and sources are stated in methods and uncertainty, with loss data, case evidence and exercise records each labelled by type.

  3. 03

    Review

    Findings are reviewed by named subject specialists before publication, and conflicts of interest are declared.

  4. 04

    Publication

    Reviewed outputs appear on the publications page, and corrections are recorded as new versions.

09Questions

Questions and answers.

Is the platform a separate organization?
No. It is a specialist platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), which publishes it.
Is the platform operating?
It is in development. The current service level is R0: information and enquiries.
Who can I contact?
Write to research@therisk.global or see contact the specialist team. The acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step.
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