AcKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Funded by GIZ on behalf of BMZ. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of GIZ or BMZ

Thank you!

This study has received financial support from the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the Government of Germany, notably the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (grant agreement “Understanding Systemic and Cascading Risks: Learnings From COVID-19”).

The authors would like to thank Dr. Franziska Gaupp (Food Systems Economics Commission, FSEC, Germany), Dr. Nicola Ranger (University of Oxford, UK), Dr. Igor Linkov (US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, USA), Marc Gordon (UNDRR, Geneva) as well as the teams of the Vulnerability Assessment, Risk Management & Adaptive Planning (VARMAP) and Environmental Vulnerability & Ecosystem Services (EVES) sections of UNU-EHS for their critical inputs, comments and feedback. Further, the authors would like to thank the participants of the stakeholder/expert workshops in the five case studies, as well as the participants of the progress workshop held on 18 August 2021, for their support, insights and valuable feedback. Lastly, we would like to thank Branwen Martha Miller (UNDRR gender focal point), Dominic Sett (UNU-EHS), Ria Hidajat (GIZ) and Stella Lehning (GIZ) for the valuable feedback and comments.