Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Illustrative: event footprints crossing a portfolio, losses rising and the exceedance-probability curve
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
After the event the work turns to counting and rebuilding: damage to assets, loss in economic flows, needs by sector, and the recovery framework that sequences and finances the response.
Map recovery, reconstruction and loss accounting on a real place
The model
From direct damage to a recovery need: how reconstruction time, forgone output and a resilience uplift build the number a donor conference sees
DataModelGateDecisionStandard it teachesStandard it relies onNeighbouring discipline
The model From direct damage to a recovery need: how reconstruction time, forgone output and a resilience uplift build the number a donor conference sees
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
Courses in development extend the scope to one further subject: Recovery planning and reconstruction.
For recovery planners, finance officers, loss data managers and analysts who assess damage after a disaster, plan reconstruction and keep the loss record that planning and finance depend on.
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Recovery, reconstruction and loss accounting's own model, as a live chart: move each parameter and read how the outputs respond.
Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow recovery, reconstruction and loss accounting on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.
Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
Flat plan of the same data: relief, the two epicentres with magnitude and depth, the WorldPop count grid and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
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The Nexus Standards the discipline teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.
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Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Recovery, reconstruction and loss accounting.
Search termsRecovery, reconstruction and loss accounting; Damage, loss and needs assessment; Disaster loss databases and accounting; Recovery planning and governance; Reconstruction and build back better; Livelihood and economic recoveryDerived from the Risk Academy page on Recovery, reconstruction and loss accounting.
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Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
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From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
Recent developments in recovery, reconstruction and loss accounting, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026.
Courses for this discipline are in development; until they open, study it through the connected courses and open lessons below.
The courses from connected disciplines below also teach this field.
Each course has its primary discipline elsewhere and teaches this field as part of its scope.
From connected disciplinesIn development
| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
|---|---|---|
| GeoAI lab | Apply Earth observation and machine learning to open imagery | 1 |
| Exposure lab | Overlay people and assets with hazard footprints | 1 |
Field platforms of the ecosystem where the subject is studied and applied.
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Open courses in connected disciplines teach the methods this discipline will build on.