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From black swans to boiling frogs: How to understand risk, visualize risk scenarios, and build agency for early action

  

From black swans to boiling frogs: How to understand risk, visualize risk scenarios, and build agency for early action

Wednesday, Dec 02, UTC 17:00 to 17:55

Organizer: NASA and Earth Observatory of Singapore

A myriad of risks exist, but it is our understanding and action in regard to these events that often lead to greater loss of lives and to livelihoods. Through a variety of animal kingdom metaphors, such as black swans, black elephants, boiling frogs, and more, we have accessible pedagogical tools to help us understand events that can be high impact but low probability (i.e., solar flares), high impact and high probability (i.e., COVID19), or high impact but consider the creeping element of time (i.e., climate change). Rather than focus on what we “could have done” following a disaster, this session intends to unpack the complexities of risk to better understand and visualize these risks and their impacts, as well as offer opportunities to enable action ahead of impact.


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Session tags

  • AI / Machine learning
  • Data
  • Cities
  • Emerging technologies
  • Risk communication
  • Risk assessment
  • Infrastructure
  • Youth and young professionals
  • Fragility, conflict and violence settings
  • Nature-based solutions
  • Earth observations
  • Design, visualization and art
  • Stakeholder collaboration
  • Risk finance
  • Early warning
  • Decision-making

  • Flood
  • Landslide
  • Tropical cyclone/hurricane/typhoon
  • Drought
  • Heatwave
  • Wildfire
  • Earthquake
  • Tsunami
  • Volcano
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