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An empirical comparison of correlation-based systemic risk measures
Despite the growing attention in the last years on the topic of systemic risk, a widely accepted definition of systemic crisis is missing. We use a...
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The Immune System Is a Complex System: Inflammatory Morbidity and Systemic Racism
This article examines the relationship between social inequity and the immune system, emphasizing some of the many ways that systemic racism and...
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The Urbanisation of Risk
Urban growth is normally associated with progress and human development. Today, over half the global population lives in urban centres. In...
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Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women with Disabilities and Systemic Oppression
During the last 50 years, a flourishing of public policies on disability at the international and European levels has taken place. Yet again, until...
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Introducing Climate Change as Societal Risk
This chapter introduces the era of climate change in which we are living and connects this to the concept of the Anthropocene. A primer to the...
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The Exposome and the Social Sciences: The Case of Systemic Diseases
This chapter discusses the challenges of an epistemological pluralism. It assesses the tensions internal to the exposome as part of a longer history...
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Scientific-Technical Theories of Risk
Opening with a brief history of risk theory, the chapter then examines scientific-technical risk theories. Three key theories are covered: Normal...
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Cultural and Social Theories of Risk
This chapter addresses the counterforces of cultural and social risk theories to the technocratic and apolitical perspectives characterising earlier...
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SPGS: Systemic Procedures for Global Social Change
The quest for global social change is identified as an urgent issue. At the same time, it is an utterly complex and all-embracing challenge. As a...
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Child Protection Decision-Making Regarding First Nations Children in Quebec: Empirical Support for a Call for Systemic Change
First Nations children are overrepresented in child protection (CP) throughout the spectrum of services across Canada. The mechanisms through which...
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The Structural Power of the State-Finance Nexus: Systemic Delinking for the Right to Development
The current era of financial hegemony is characterized by a dense financial actor concentration, an exacerbated reliance of many South countries on...
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Rethinking labour migration: Covid-19, essential work, and systemic resilience
Many of the ‘essential workers’ during the Covid-19 pandemic are migrants, playing an important role for the continued functioning of basic services...
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Risk
An understanding of what risk is, how it is measured and perceived, and how it impacts social structures and processes is necessary for environmental...
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COVID-19 risks and systemic gaps in Nigeria: resilience building lessons for pandemic and climate change management
Pandemics alter a lot of human activities and the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020 was no exception. The COVID-19 pandemic, like climate change, has...
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Candace’s Story: Systemic Cultural Oppression
Born in the UK, Candace emigrated to Canada in the early 80s. She transitioned gender in her seventies and continues to live with her wife, to whom...
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Are African Scholars at Risk? The Invisibility of Africans in Relief Policies for Endangered Academics
This chapter focuses on one of the most fearsome dimensions of the unequal redistribution of vulnerability for a largely neglected group: that of...
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Bridging Gaps: Connecting Climate Change Risk Assessments with Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas
Changing climates and increasing variability, in combination with maladaptive societal responses, present many threats and risks to both social and...
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The Case of the UNCRPD: Fostering a Human Rights-Based Approach to Disaster Risk Reduction and Implementation Monitoring
International Human Rights Law (IHRL) does not explicitly affirm a right to protection and relief from disaster; however, it is implied in the...
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Diaspora and Economic Development: A Systemic View
Recent attempts to generalize isolated successes of expatriate entrepreneurial networks offer limited insight into the more systemic questions on the...
