Brief notes on a Briefing Note
I have been asked to comment on the Briefing Note on Systemic Risk, a 36 page document recently released jointly by the International Science Council, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, and an interdisciplinary network of decision makers and experts on disaster risk reduction that goes under the acronym RISKKAN.[1] The importance of the document lies not so much in the concrete subject-matter knowledge (of which in fact there is rather little) that an interested reader can take away from it, but more in how it serves as a commitment from the three...