Global Risk Scientists' Perception survey
Maria H Ivanova
Dear colleagues,
Future Earth is conducting a Global Risk Scientists' Perception survey. The aim of the survey is to capture scientists' perceptions of global risks to complement the World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report, which reports on the global risk perceptions of leaders from business, economics, and government.
We are reaching out to you as experts in global environmental issues to help us answer this survey. It will be open until Oct 14th2019.
Survey website: https://grsp2019.futureearth.org
Below you will find an email with additional details about the survey if you would like to share further. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Maria Ivanova
University of Massachusetts Boston
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ADDITIONAL DETAILS: Global Risks Scientists' Perception survey
Overview: The goal of this survey is to spark dialogue, build the needed multi-sectoral community working toward solutions to global risks, and identify knowledge gaps. The survey was designed under the guidance of a team of expert advisors (listed below). The results will be published in a chapter of Our Future On Earth report to be released in early 2020. This is the first iteration of the Global Risks Scientists’ Perception survey. The plan is to build this into an annual, recognizable Future Earth product.
Context: The researchers within our Future Earth community are among the world’s leading experts in understanding the changing nature of global environmental and societal risks. We know that global risks are increasingly complex, uncertain, systemic, and dynamic. These risks cannot be understood, monitored, or addressed in academic or sectoral silos. To effectively tackle the global risks of today, we not only need continuous transdisciplinary research, we also need transdisciplinary dialogue to build a broader community of professionals working together on the systemic challenges of today. To this end, Future Earth is launching the Global Risks Scientists' Perception survey.
The results of this survey will complement the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual Global Risks Report, which reports on the global risk perceptions of leaders from business, economics, and government. These reports have been influential in shaping current dialogues and framing global risk. The Global Risks Scientists' Perception survey will contribute to the discourse that has been shaped through WEF’s important work with an international analysis of scientists’ perceptions of global risks, of the current knowledge base on these risks, and on clusters of risks with the potential to act synergistically.
Added Value: We hope the Global Risks Scientists’ Perception survey will expand and deepen the dialogue among science, business, and policy around building solutions to global risks. It will do this by complementing the work done by the WEF by adding the system science perspective, while also going a step further by:
1. Identifying knowledge gaps around global risks,
2. Identifying additional risks not currently covered in the WEF Global Risks Report, and
3. Beginning to analyze interconnections between global risks with the potential to lead to global systemic crises.
Please take the time to participate in this survey HERE and share this invitation within research your networks. The survey will take approximately 30 minutes and will remain open until October 11, 2019.
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SCIENTIFIC ADVISORS:
Dr. Kalpana Chaudhari, Vice President of the Institute for Sustainable Development and Research, ISDR, India
Prof. Matthias Garschagen, Professor, Department of Geography, Human-Environment Relations, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Prof. Maria Ivanova, Associate Professor, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance, McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston; Director of Center for Governance and Sustainability and Director of the Global Environmental Governance Project, USA
Dr. Markus Reichstein, Director, Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany
Prof. Qian Ye, Executive Director, Integrated Risk Governance project, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, China