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The systemic risk taxonomy

Hazard domains, contexts, risk classes, indicator domains, risk components, the risk chain, method fabrics, the twenty systems, platforms, domain packs and programme pillars, each node linked to the standards that govern it.

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危害

危害领域

Node Definition 标准
大气与天气atmo Hazards that live in the air column: storms, winds, precipitation extremes, thermal extremes, airborne particles and large-scale circulation anomalies.
水系统water Hazards of fresh and salt water: floods, water deficit, sea-level and wave hazards, ocean-state extremes and water-quality degradation.
冰与雪cryo Hazards of the frozen Earth: snowpack and avalanche, glacier and permafrost change, floating ice.
固体地球geo Hazards of the crust and ground: fault shaking, eruptions, slope failure, ground deformation and surface erosion.
空间与近地space Hazards that arrive from or act in space: solar-terrestrial storms, impacts and orbital debris.
陆地与生态系统eco Hazards of the living land and sea surface: vegetation fire, forest stress, land degradation, biodiversity loss and climate-state shifts.
行星边界与地球系统临界点planet Hazards of the Earth system as a whole: transgression of the boundaries that keep the planet in a stable state, tipping of large climate, ice, ocean and biome components, carbon-cycle feedbacks, and rare deep-time and cosmic catastrophes.
污染与有害物质poll Harmful substances in air, water, soil and food, toxic releases, ionising radiation and waste-containment failures.
健康与生物安全health Disease and biological harm to people, animals and plants, grouped by transmission route, plus systemic biological risks, chronic and mental-health burdens, drug resistance and the failure of health systems.
建成系统infra Failure and accident hazards of structures, energy, water, digital and space-service networks, mobility, food systems, cities, ageing assets and industrial plants.
信息与网络物理系统cyber Compromise or failure of information systems, including attacks that reach physical processes, identity and trust services, systemic cyber events and platforms everything else depends on.
前沿与指数型技术tech Hazards that arise from frontier and exponential technologies: artificial intelligence, biotechnology, advanced materials, quantum, neurotechnology, autonomy, climate intervention, space systems, digital concentration, advanced manufacturing and energy-transition technology.
社会、冲突与经济soc Violence, geopolitical and nuclear confrontation, conflict-induced harm, humanitarian crises, governance and cohesion failure, crime, demographic and labour transitions, macro-fiscal and financial-system shocks, and loss of heritage.
系统性与复合事件sys Events defined by interaction rather than by one process: supply-chain disruption, cascading failure, compound multi-hazard events and the structural fragility (concentration, coupling, polycrisis) that lets them spread.
02危害标准

Hazard Standard contexts (the six anchor streams, global risks and the nexus)

03危害标准

risk classes (global, catastrophic, existential, emerging, planetary, exponential, frontier technology)

Node Definition 标准
Global riskglobal A hazard is global when its occurrence, its consequences or its causal chain cross national borders and act at continental or planetary scale, so that no single country can fully assess, prevent or absorb it.
巨灾风险catastrophic A hazard is catastrophic when at least one plausible scenario for it would cause global catastrophe: a very large loss of life, the crippling of global systems, or a civilisational setback that would take generations to recover from.
Existential riskexistential A hazard is existential when a plausible scenario for it would cause human extinction or a permanent, unrecoverable collapse of humanity’s long-term potential.
Emerging riskemerging A hazard is emerging when it is new, or is changing fast in nature, scale, likelihood or reach, and the evidence base for assessing it is still thin or immature.
Planetary riskplanetary A hazard is planetary when it concerns the stability of an Earth-system process: it pressures a planetary boundary, or it is, or directly drives, a tipping element whose change of state would alter the Earth system as a whole.
Exponential riskexponential A hazard is exponential when its growth or diffusion is self-accelerating, through compounding technology capability, contagion, network effects or reinforcing feedback, so that its scale can outrun linear planning and response.
Frontier technology riskfrontier-tech A hazard is frontier-tech when it arises from frontier or fast-advancing technology, through accident, misuse, unintended system behaviour or structural effects of its deployment.

indicator domains

Node Definition 标准
MacroeconomyMAC Output, prices, external position and monetary conditions of an economy.
Fiscal and public debtFIS Government revenue, spending, balances, debt stock, composition, financing needs and contingent liabilities.
金融体系FIN Soundness, depth and vulnerabilities of banks, non-banks, households, corporates and markets, including climate-related financial risk.
气候CLI Physical climate hazards and trends, emissions and transition exposure, and adaptation readiness.
Hazard and exposureHAZ Natural and technological hazard intensity, frequency and the people, assets and systems exposed, keyed to Hazard Standard.
卫生HLT Disease burden, health-system capacity and health-security preparedness.
粮食系统FOO Food availability, access, utilisation, stability and acute food insecurity.
水WAT Water availability, stress, access, quality and transboundary dependence.
能源ENE Energy access, supply security, import dependence, diversity, reliability and transition.
基础设施INF Critical infrastructure stock, condition, service continuity, connectivity and urban systems.
网络与数字CYB Cyber-security commitment and capability, digital dependence and incident exposure.
治理与机构GOV Quality of governance, rule of law, policy and institutional capacity, statistical capacity.
冲突与安全CON Organised violence, its deadliness, diffusion and civilian harm, militarisation and peace.
Social and human developmentSOC Poverty, inequality, education, gender, social protection and human development.
Demography and mobilityDEM Population size and structure, urbanisation, migration and forced displacement.
环境与生物多样性ENV Pollution, ecosystem condition, land and biodiversity, and nature dependence.
Technology and frontierTEC Frontier technology capability, concentration and systemic technology risk (AI, biotech, space, quantum).
Coping capacity and resilienceCRS Disaster risk reduction, early warning, risk financing and protection gaps.
Economic structure and tradeECO Trade openness, concentration and dependence, supply-chain exposure and economic complexity.
Space environmentSPC Space weather and the exposure of space-dependent services.
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Indicator Standard risk components

Node Definition 标准
危害HAZARD
风险暴露EXPOSURE
VulnerabilityVULNERABILITY
Coping capacityCOPING_CAPACITY
Adaptive capacityADAPTIVE_CAPACITY
响应RESPONSE
ImpactIMPACT
背景CONTEXT
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systemic risk chain stages

Node Definition 标准
危害HAZARD
风险暴露EXPOSURE
VulnerabilityVULNERABILITY
ImpactIMPACT
LikelihoodLIKELIHOOD
风险RISK
CapacityCAPACITY
响应RESPONSE
FinancingFINANCING
结果OUTCOME
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Method libraries

Node Definition 标准
通用数学与统计universal-mathematics-statistics
危害科学hazard-science
风险暴露与资产情报exposure-asset-intelligence
脆弱性、脆弱状态与韧性vulnerability-fragility-resilience
后果与损失consequence-loss
巨灾风险catastrophe-risk
网络、依存关系与系统性风险network-dependency-systemic
金融风险financial-risk
保险与再保险insurance-reinsurance
市场、贸易与供应链market-trade-supply-chain
Sovereign, macroeconomic and development risksovereign-macro-development
政策、监管与治理policy-regulation-governance
水风险water-risk
粮食、农业和渔业food-agriculture-fisheries
能源风险energy-risk
卫生与流行病学health-epidemiology
气候、自然与生物多样性climate-nature-biodiversity
Critical infrastructure and industrial riskcritical-infrastructure-industrial
网络、人工智能与前沿技术cyber-ai-frontier-tech
地缘政治、冲突与人类安全geopolitical-conflict-human-security
项目、计划和基础设施投资project-programme-infrastructure-investment
风险数据risk-data
科学保证scientific-assurance

The twenty functional system classes

Node Definition 标准
NXS-CMD (Integrated posture and executive synthesis)executive-synthesis
NXS-NST (Civilian common operating picture)common-operating-picture
NXS-DSS (Decision cases and deliberation)decision-support
NXS-COR (Compute, nodes and runtimes)compute-runtime
NXS-NXQ (Software, models and capability lifecycle)software-model-lifecycle
NXS-GRX (Canonical data, provenance and risk)risk-data-provenance
NXS-EOP (Earth observation and digital twins)earth-observation-twins
NXS-EWS (Multi-hazard monitoring and warning)monitoring-warning
NXS-AAP (Anticipatory action and triggers)anticipatory-action
NXS-NET (Network topology and continuity)network-continuity
NXS-OPS (Instruments, sensors and calibration)instruments-sensing
NXS-SIG (Signal, spectrum, timing and PNT)signal-timing-pnt
NXS-NSF (Trust, authorisation and assurance)trust-assurance
NXS-HUB (Knowledge, records and learning)knowledge-records
NXS-STU (Composition, dashboards and workflows)composition-workflow
NXS-FAC (Blueprints, builds and signing)build-signing
NXS-APP (Application catalogue and lifecycle)application-lifecycle
NXS-RLS (Participants, agreements and handoffs)participation-agreements
NXS-POR (Public, client and partner delivery)public-delivery
NXS-LAB (Research, experiments and simulations)research-simulation
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Nexus Universe platforms

Node Definition 标准
Asset Management Nexusasset-management-nexus
Banking Nexusbanking-nexus
Biodiversity Nexusbiodiversity-nexus
Capital Markets Nexuscapital-markets-nexus
Capital Nexuscapital-nexus
Development Finance Nexusdevelopment-finance-nexus
Diplomacy Nexusdiplomacy-nexus
Energy Nexusenergy-nexus
Financial Regulation Nexusfinancial-regulation-nexus
Fintech Nexusfintech-nexus
Food Nexusfood-nexus
Foresight Nexusforesight-nexus
Governance Nexusgovernance-nexus
Health Nexushealth-nexus
Innovation Nexusinnovation-nexus
Institutional Funds Nexusinstitutional-funds-nexus
Insurance Nexusinsurance-nexus
Nexus Agencynexus-agency
Nexus Campaignsnexus-campaigns
Nexus Labsnexus-labs
Nexus Registrynexus-registry
Nexus Reportsnexus-reports
Policy Nexuspolicy-nexus
Private Equity Nexusprivate-equity-nexus
Research Nexusresearch-nexus
Sovereign Capital Nexussovereign-capital-nexus
Water Nexuswater-nexus
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Universe applied domain packs

Node Definition 标准
Aviationaviation
海洋maritime
Railrail
Roads mobilityroads-mobility
Transport logisticstransport-logistics
Ports trade corridorsports-trade-corridors
Cities urbancities-urban
Buildings housingbuildings-housing
Data centresdata-centers
半导体semiconductors
Telecom digital infrastructuretelecom-digital-infrastructure
Space satellitespace-satellite
Mining critical mineralsmining-critical-minerals
Manufacturing industrialmanufacturing-industrial
Chemicals processchemicals-process
Waste circular economywaste-circular-economy
Forests landforests-land
Oceans coastaloceans-coastal
Fisheries blue economyfisheries-blue-economy
Climate adaptationclimate-adaptation
Climate mitigation carbonclimate-mitigation-carbon
Disaster risk resiliencedisaster-risk-resilience
Humanitarian crisishumanitarian-crisis
Education workforceeducation-workforce
Digital governmentdigital-government
Public finance fiscal riskpublic-finance-fiscal-risk
Biotechnology bioeconomybiotechnology-bioeconomy
Quantum ecosystemquantum-ecosystem
Robotics autonomyrobotics-autonomy
Ai national adoptionai-national-adoption
Cyber national resiliencecyber-national-resilience
Nuclear fusionnuclear-fusion
Hydrogen storagehydrogen-storage
Agriculture ruralagriculture-rural
Health infrastructurehealth-infrastructure
关键基础设施critical-infrastructure
Research infrastructureresearch-infrastructure
Supply chain tradesupply-chain-trade
Community local resiliencecommunity-local-resilience
Islands small statesislands-small-states
Arctic polararctic-polar
Cross border basinscross-border-basins
Industrial decarbonisationindustrial-decarbonization
Construction infrastructure deliveryconstruction-infrastructure-delivery
Emergency communicationsemergency-communications
Food supply chainsfood-supply-chains
Pharmaceutical medical supplypharmaceutical-medical-supply
Financial system resiliencefinancial-system-resilience
Nature finance projectsnature-finance-projects
Sovereign compute ai infrastructuresovereign-compute-ai-infrastructure
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Programme pillars

Node Definition 标准
Nexus Universeuniverse
Risk Academyacademy

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The taxonomy is a proposal under the standards development process.