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Country Systems Risk and Resilience series

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Country Systems Risk and Resilience

One country or union at a time: the state of its interdependent systems, the risks that travel through them and the capabilities that hold them.

Read Canada 2026All seriesEditions and the programme
Led by
GCRI
Cadence
Baseline Edition 2026, then quarterly from Q1 2027
Editions in the programme
26
Contributing platforms
8
Editions26in the Baseline programme
Drafted7in stewardship review
Released0none until the first deposit with its DOI
Platforms8that report into it

01 · Issues

Every edition in the series.

Ordered by wave and code, never by value. A drafted edition opens its landing page; a planned one has no outputs yet.

CodeEditionWaveState
CANCanada Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026 · Baseline EditionW0Drafted, in review
USAUnited States Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026 · Baseline EditionW1Drafted, in review
GBRUnited Kingdom Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026 · Baseline EditionW1Drafted, in review
FRAFrance Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026 · Baseline EditionW1Drafted, in review
DEUGermany Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026 · Baseline EditionW1Drafted, in review
ITAItaly Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026 · Baseline EditionW1Drafted, in review
JPNJapan Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026 · Baseline EditionW1Drafted, in review
EUEuropean UnionW1Planned
CHESwitzerlandW1Planned
MEXMexicoW2Planned
BRABrazilW2Planned
ARGArgentinaW2Planned
TURTürkiyeW2Planned
RUSRussian FederationW2Planned
SAUSaudi ArabiaW2Planned
AREUnited Arab EmiratesW2Planned
ZAFSouth AfricaW2Planned
SENSenegalW2Planned
KENKenyaW2Planned
AUAfrican UnionW2Planned
INDIndiaW2Planned
CHNChinaW2Planned
KORRepublic of KoreaW2Planned
IDNIndonesiaW2Planned
SGPSingaporeW2Planned
AUSAustraliaW2Planned

02 · Cadence

From the baseline into the quarterly cycle.

From Q1 2027

Q1 · State and agenda

Opens the operational year from a sealed evidence cut: what changed against the baseline and the agenda for the year.

From Q2 2027

Q2 · Evidence and build

New evidence bound, models and capability ladders updated, contributions from the quarter folded in.

From Q3 2027

Q3 · Stress test and readiness

Scenarios and stress tests run against the year’s state; readiness recorded, never ranked.

From Q4 2027

Q4 · Annual flagship

The year in one edition, aligned with the Universe annual synthesis.

Baseline Edition 2026: Evidence close 30 September 2026; drafted, in stewardship review. Fixes the 2026 reference state, the model, the voice and the positions every later edition is measured against..

03 · Contributors

Platforms that report into the series.

PlatformInstitution
Water NexusThe Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Food NexusGCRI
Health NexusGCRI
ReportsGCRI
Disaster Resilience and RecoveryGCRI
Economic DevelopmentGCRI
Society and Human DevelopmentGCRI
Public Finance and Sovereign DebtGlobal Risks Alliance

04 · Method

How an edition in this series is made and reviewed.

  1. 01

    Evidence cut

    Each edition is built from a sealed evidence cut; what arrives later waits for the next edition.

  2. 02

    Status on every value

    Every value carries its status, time and source; gaps are stated, never filled.

  3. 03

    Three keys

    GCRI (technical truth), the Global Risks Forum (GRF) (public meaning) and GRA (capital meaning) review before release; Nexus Standards and Risk Academy review what concerns them.

  4. 04

    Release

    Deposited on Zenodo with a DOI and a UNI, and published on its desk’s Reports site.

  5. 05

    Corrections

    A correction is a new version with a published notice; the earlier version stays resolvable.

Series editors are named at the first release of the series. No funder, sponsor or member can buy or block a finding.

05 · Cite

Cite the series.

Country Systems Risk and Resilience. Nexus Reports series. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) for the Nexus Consortium, Toronto, 2026–. https://therisk.global/nexus-reports/series/country-systems/

A series concept DOI is minted with its first released edition.

ReportsContribute

Contribute to Country Systems Risk and Resilience.

Reports is the Consortium’s quarterly publication, written by six desks. This page sits with the Index Measurement desk. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work. Sent to the wrong desk, it is forwarded, not refused.

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Reports · NXS-GRX

Every series reads the same evidence.

Follow a series from its baseline into the quarterly cycle, or bring evidence to its next edition.

ContributeEditions
  • 26 editions
  • CC BY 4.0
  • Corrections in public

CC BY 4.0 Free to read. Text and figures: CC BY 4.0. Data: CC0 1.0. Authors keep copyright. Published by GCRI Canada.