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Systemic Risk Management · Mandate and publisher

Mandate and publisher

Systemic Risk Management is published by The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI). It is the GCRI platform for risk-method discipline: how to identify, analyse, govern and correct decisions about risk in interconnected systems. This page sets out its mandate, who answers for it, the limits of its role and its current state. The platform is in development, and nothing on it represents a service, audit or approval.

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In this dossier6 parts
  1. 01In briefThe short answer
  2. 02MandateRisk management that sees interdependence and consequence
  3. 03PublisherGCRI answers for the platform
  4. 04LimitsWhat the platform does not do
  5. 05Key termsTerms used on this page
  6. 06Operating stateIn development, at service level R0

GCRI · In development · service level R0

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Counterparts
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Nexus Reports series it contributes to
01In brief

The short answer.

Systemic Risk Management is a specialist platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation for risk management and systemic risk as well as methods and modelling. Its mandate covers risk management that sees interdependence, uncertainty, cascading loss and the human consequences of decisions. 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 Systemic Risk Management 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 Asia.

For mandate and publisher, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on population density, true-colour imagery and night lights, framed on Asia; 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, true-colour imagery and night lights, framed on Asia; 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 · Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2ASources 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Observed (EO): Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2A (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026), Microsoft Planetary Computer
  • 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
  • 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
  • Land cover type (IGBP), yearly: MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1), NASA LP DAAC · 2024
  • Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
  • Active fires and thermal anomalies, last day: VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS), NASA LANCE FIRMS · 13 Oct 2026

04Mandate

Risk management that sees interdependence and consequence.

The mandate is risk management that sees interdependence, uncertainty, cascading loss and the human consequences of decisions.

Interdependence

Connected risks

Methods for common-cause, correlated and cascading losses across organizations and sectors.

Uncertainty

Honest analysis

Probabilistic, scenario and judgement-based methods matched to the evidence actually available.

Consequence

Who bears the risk

Attention to how decisions shift risk between organizations, people and public budgets.

05Publisher

GCRI answers for the platform.

GCRI is a research, development and policy institution. It works across Canada and the United States.

The platform's community is enterprise risk leaders, risk scientists, resilience managers and enterprise executives. Its planned outputs are a systems-risk primer, dependency analyses and a decision-method guide. It exists as a distinct platform because risk-method discipline is separate from technical infrastructure and from single-hazard specialist sites. It stewards decision analysis under uncertainty and scenario design and stress testing for the Consortium.

06Limits

What the platform does not do.

  • It does not audit, certify or rate any organization's risk management.
  • It does not set risk appetite, tolerances or limits for any organization or authority.
  • It does not sell consulting, software or training as a commercial service.
  • It does not regulate, license or approve, and contributing gives no influence over findings.

Decisions on risk remain with boards, executives and public authorities under their own mandates. See trust, rights and status.

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.
RiskThe effect of uncertainty on objectives, in ISO 31000 usage, often described through events, their consequences and likelihoods.
Systemic riskRisk arising from the interactions and dependencies within and between systems, where a shock can propagate and threaten the functioning of the whole.
08Operating state

In development, at service level R0.

Systemic Risk Management is in development. Its pages set out its scope and how it works, and its activities, records and services are published here as each one opens. The current service level is R0: information and enquiries.

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    Contribute

    Participation paths for methods specialists and practitioners.

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    Write

    contact@therisk.global. The acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step.

09Questions

Questions and answers.

Is Systemic Risk Management a separate organization?
No. It is a specialist platform of GCRI with no separate legal identity.
Who works on the governance and finance sides?
The Global Risks Forum (GRF) convenes on governance through Governance Nexus, and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) builds shared industry understanding through Financial Stability.
When will the platform publish its first outputs?
Outputs are published when they are reviewed. No date is promised before a release record exists.
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