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Each platform declares its STEM foundation, so a claim on the platform can be traced to a method, a data source and its limits.
Specialist network· Platforms· STEM + field
Specialist communities of GCRI
Thirty platforms. Every claim traced to a method.
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) does its science through specialist platforms: communities of scientists, engineers and practitioners who apply named methods to one field or one shared service, and publish what they find. Thirty platforms, each at its own address.
Network registerFrom the platform portfolio
- 01Field platforms05
- 02Ecosystem services06
- 03STEM CommonsOne page per method
- 04Counterparts at GRF and GRAEight shared fields
- 05Specialist platforms19
Each platform names its legal publisher
- Established
- 11
- At their current roots on therisk.global
- Specialist platforms
- 19
- At their canonical roots on therisk.global
- GCRI platforms
- 30
- Fields and ecosystem services in all
- Whole network
- 63
- GCRI, the Global Risks Forum (GRF) and the Global Risks Alliance (GRA): 63 specialist platforms
01STEM + field
A platform is a community applying named methods to a field.
Water Nexus is science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) applied to water: hydrologists, engineers and data scientists using stated methods on water questions. Grounding every platform in its methods does three things.
Links that mean something
Platforms that use the same method meet on it. A flood scientist and a catastrophe modeller meet on extreme value theory, the method they share.
One loop
Methods are what Foundry implements, what the annual Universe programme tests and what Reports publishes, so a question can be followed to a corrected result.
Fig. 01The specialist network as a directory of platforms.Example screen with illustrative values, not results.
02Field platforms
Five fields where the systems meet.
The field platforms follow the systems at the centre of the integrated approach. Each studies its own field together with the fields it depends on, because that is where failures travel.
- Field platformWater NexusThe interdependence of water services, watersheds, human health, energy, food and economic resilience. Basin scientists, utilities and municipal engineers; hydrologic modelling, catchment mapping, scenario uncertainty.
- Field platformEnergy NexusEnergy systems, transitions, reliability and the cross-sector dependencies that sustain society. Grid engineers, utility operators and energy economists; adequacy models, outage and asset resilience.
- Field platformFood NexusFood-system security and resilience, from land and production through supply chains, nutrition and access. Agricultural scientists, food processors and logistics experts; crop and climate analysis, supply-dependency mapping.
- Field platformHealth NexusHealth security and wellbeing through resilient health systems and cross-sector evidence. Public health, clinicians and One Health scientists; epidemiological methods, facility continuity, access analysis.
- Field platformBiodiversity NexusEcosystem integrity, biodiversity loss and nature-related risks to human and economic systems. Ecologists, land managers and community stewards; habitat observation, ecological indicators, remote sensing.
03Risk and response
Coupled risk, applied response.
The sectors heatwave touches and how strongly they depend on each other: what a study has to observe and model together.
Choose a context
ACoupled risk across six sectors6 / 15 relations
Sectors · HeatwaveStress
applied to
BApplied response across six pillars10 / 18 handoffs
Pillars · HeatwaveKPI
In this contextDependence or handoff, heavier is strongerOutside this context
Programme yearAll phases
Context
Heatwave
Cooling demand peaks the grid while rivers warm; heat stress fills hospitals and wilts crops.
W · E · I · F · H · B
Risk
- Sectors
- 4 of 6
- Relations
- 6 of 15
- Coupling
- 0.43 share of total
Hover a corner, a line or a row to trace it across both sides.
Route
Applied to heatwave
L · F · U · S · R · A
Response
- Pillars
- 4 of 6
- Handoffs
- 10 of 18
- Loops
- 5 closed
Expected value
- What is at stake
- –no published benchmark
- Return on resilience
- –no published benchmark
- Avoided loss
- 1,190deaths avoided a yearHess et al., J. Environ. Public Health, 2018
Hover a pillar, a line or a row to read how it is applied.
A: a teaching cascade (shock 0.6, gain 0.35, four rounds) over teaching values for a typical city-region, not measurements. B: illustrative applications and the KPI each pillar answers for; values are published benchmarks, cited, not forecasts. Open events: NASA EONET, live.
04Ecosystem services
Six services the whole network relies on.
Records, experiments, tools, expertise, publications and public participation: the service platforms hold what every field platform uses.
- Ecosystem serviceRegistryPublic-safe records of programmes, evidence, publication status and correction histories, subject to owner authority. Record views, record methods and a status glossary.
- Ecosystem serviceCampaignsPublic-interest communication, participation and campaign-specific knowledge mobilisation. Campaign explainers and responsible participation guides.
- Ecosystem serviceLabsInterdisciplinary experiments, technical research, methods and supervised innovation challenges. Experimental protocols, reproducibility records and findings.
- Ecosystem serviceFoundryThe public gateway to the technical work environment, while project permissions stay within Foundry. A capability catalogue, installation guidance and technical examples.
- Ecosystem serviceAgencyCompetence-based technical assistance and expert-matching enquiries under explicit terms and mandates. Expert pathways and capacity maps.
- Ecosystem serviceReportsVersioned research spanning global, national, sector, technology and annual programme findings. Series catalogues, sources, figures and corrections.
The work each platform supports through GCRI is described on GCRI programmes and services.
05The STEM Commons
One shared library of methods for the whole network.
Each method has one canonical page on therisk.global and one steward platform that answers for its quality. Every platform that applies it shows how it is used in that field. Pages are published as each one opens.
For example, the page on extreme value theory in water covers flood return periods, changing climate and the limits of short records, and links to the same method as used in catastrophe insurance.
Science
Hydrology, climate, ecology, epidemiology, economics and decision science, among others.
Technology
Earth observation, geospatial systems, AI, computing, communications and cybersecurity.
Engineering
Systems, reliability and resilience, power, water, structural and safety-critical engineering.
Mathematics and data
Statistics, extreme value theory, uncertainty, network science, forecasting and scenario design.
06Counterparts
Three faces of a field: science, governance and finance.
GCRI studies a field as science. The Global Risks Forum (GRF) works on how it is governed and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) on what it means for finance; both are independent consortium stewards with GCRI. Counterpart platforms link to each other and keep their own publisher and voice.
| Shared field | Science at GCRI | Governance at GRF | Finance at GRA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate and hazards | Water, Energy, Food and Biodiversity Nexus; Climate and Hazards | Diplomacy Nexus; Climate and Nature Governance | Insurance Nexus, Banking Nexus; Reinsurance and Catastrophe |
| Health and biosecurity | Health Nexus; Biotechnology and Biosecurity | Health and Biosecurity Governance | Insurance Nexus |
| Biodiversity and nature | Biodiversity Nexus | Climate and Nature Governance | Asset Management Nexus; Climate and Nature Financial Risk |
| Critical infrastructure | Water and Energy Nexus; Critical Infrastructure | Disaster and Crisis Governance | Development Finance Nexus |
| Research and evidence | Registry, Labs and Reports | Research Nexus | No counterpart yet |
| Governance and institutions | Registry and Agency | Governance Nexus | Financial Regulation Nexus |
| Development finance | Agency | Capital Nexus | Development Finance Nexus |
| Innovation | Labs | Innovation Nexus | No counterpart yet |
Full directories: GRF governance platforms and GRA industry platforms.
07Specialist platforms
Nineteen more fields, each at its own address.
Each page sets out the platform’s thesis, scope and first methods. Activities, records and services are published as each opens on each platform’s site; information and enquiries are open on every platform.
- Specialist platformSystemic Risk ManagementRisk management that sees interdependence, uncertainty, cascading loss and the human consequences of decisions. Methods: Decision analysis under uncertainty · Scenario design and stress testing · 4 more.
- Specialist platformClimate and HazardsPhysical climate risks, weather extremes and hazard interactions grounded in observed and modelled evidence. Methods: Climate and atmospheric science · Earth and geophysical science · 8 more.
- Specialist platformDisaster Resilience and RecoveryRisk reduction, readiness, emergency systems and recovery capacities across communities and institutions. Methods: Decision analysis under uncertainty · Social and behavioural science · 6 more.
- Specialist platformCritical InfrastructureReliability and resilience of lifeline infrastructure and the services on which communities and economies rely. Methods: Reliability and resilience engineering · Systems engineering · 10 more.
- Specialist platformCities and Built EnvironmentUrban development, buildings, mobility, infrastructure, housing and human-scale resilience. Methods: Structural and earthquake engineering · Urban and transport engineering · 7 more.
- Specialist platformTrade and Strategic ResourcesSupply networks, trade routes, critical minerals and strategic inputs that underpin industrial and national resilience. Methods: Network science and contagion · Optimisation and operations research · 4 more.
- Specialist platformOceans and CoastsOceans, coastal ecosystems and built shoreline resilience at the junction of science and development. Methods: Ocean and coastal science · Earth observation and remote sensing · 5 more.
- Specialist platformArtificial Intelligence and Autonomous SystemsTrustworthy artificial intelligence, robotics-enabled autonomy, computational methods and social effects. Methods: Artificial intelligence and machine learning · AI evaluation and assurance engineering · 5 more.
- Specialist platformCybersecurity and Digital ResilienceSecurity, reliability and continuity of cyber-dependent services, devices and institutions. Methods: Cybersecurity and cryptography · Software and safety-critical systems engineering · 4 more.
- Specialist platformData and ComputeData infrastructure, national computational capacity and advanced computing in service of public knowledge. Methods: High-performance, cloud and edge computing · Data engineering, interoperability and stewardship · 5 more.
- Specialist platformQuantum TechnologiesQuantum science and technology convergence, opportunities, limitations and transition risks. Methods: Physics and quantum science · Quantum computing, sensing and communication · 3 more.
- Specialist platformSpace and Earth ObservationSpace systems and the Earth-observation technologies used for risk intelligence and sustainable development. Methods: Earth observation and remote sensing · Space systems and satellite services · 5 more.
- Specialist platformBiotechnology and BiosecurityBiotechnology, synthetic biology and biological safety at the convergence of health, agriculture and industry. Methods: Molecular and life sciences · Biotechnology platforms · 4 more.
- Specialist platformAdvanced Industry and RoboticsIndustrial innovation, automation, robotics and process resilience in changing production systems. Methods: Robotics and automation · Materials science and chemistry · 6 more.
- Specialist platformEconomic DevelopmentEconomic transformation, inclusive growth, industry, trade and development under systemic risk. Methods: Economics and development economics · Econometrics · 3 more.
- Specialist platformSociety and Human DevelopmentSocietal resilience, inequality, health, population change and the human consequences of risks and innovation. Methods: Social and behavioural science · Causal inference and impact evaluation · 2 more.
- Specialist platformFuture of Work and SkillsWork, automation, skill formation and institutional adaptation to fast technological change. Methods: Economics and development economics · Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 3 more.
- Specialist platformDigital Public InfrastructurePublic digital systems, interoperable institutions and the social conditions for responsible access. Methods: Digital identity and public digital systems · Data engineering, interoperability and stewardship · 4 more.
- Specialist platformSystems Science and ModellingThe shared mathematical and engineering foundation for every field in the network: how coupled systems are modelled, tested, validated and explained, so that a flood model, a grid model and a contagion model can be compared and combined honestly. Methods: Systems engineering · Probability and statistics · 6 more.
Each card names the platform’s thesis and the first methods of its STEM foundation; the full foundation is on the platform. Enquiries about any platform go to the Secretariat at the contact form and receive a reference; they do not create membership.
08Questions
Questions about the specialist network.
What is a GCRI specialist platform?
A specialist platform is a community website on therisk.global for one field, such as water or health, or one shared service, such as reports or testing. It brings together the people who work on that subject and the methods they apply, and it is designed to name its legal publisher.
What does STEM + field mean?
It means each platform is grounded in named methods from science, technology, engineering and mathematics applied to its field. Water Nexus, for instance, applies hydrology, earth observation, extreme value theory and uncertainty analysis to water questions, so its claims can be traced to methods and data.
How do I join a platform community?
Start on the platform itself or write to the expert application form. Experts and volunteers usually contribute through bounded, supervised assignments in the National Working Groups, described on Work with GCRI. Joining a community does not confer membership of a national programme, an appointment or access to restricted data.
How do GCRI platforms relate to those of GRF and GRA?
They are counterparts. GCRI platforms examine a field as science, GRF platforms examine how it is governed, and GRA platforms examine what the evidence means for responsible financial decisions. Each links to the others and keeps its own publisher.
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The Secretariat routes experts, research teams and institutions to the right platform and pathway; experts can also write to the expert application form. An enquiry receives a reference; it does not create membership or an appointment.
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