Infrastructure, Energy and Industry
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Trade, supply chains and geoeconomics covers the networks through which goods and strategic inputs move, supplier concentration, chokepoints, geoeconomic fragmentation and sanctions, and how shocks propagate along supply chains.
Risk Academy · Infrastructure, Energy and Industry
This area covers the networks through which goods and strategic inputs move, supplier concentration, chokepoints, geoeconomic fragmentation and sanctions, and how shocks propagate along supply chains. It is taught in the department of Industry and Supply Chains, Faculty of Infrastructure, Energy and Industry, through 1 course with it as primary discipline and 4 more that also teach it.
8 subtopics, taught across its courses and labs.
Not yet taught by a course: Input-output models for shock propagation.
Recent developments in trade, supply chains and geoeconomics, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026. Summaries are short readings of the source; follow the link for the full account.
News and research as they are published, per discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The newest research, preprints, news and humanitarian reports for Trade, supply chains and geoeconomics, each with its source and date, load here. Open the research and news hub
| Aspect | In this area |
|---|---|
| Technology that helps | Traceability and distributed ledgers. |
| Risk technology creates | Exposure to chip and export controls, and concentration in critical minerals. |
| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
|---|---|---|
| Network lab | Build dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades | 5 |
| Map lab | Read hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps | 2 |
No course with this primary discipline is open yet; these are planned, so you can prepare with the courses also taught here.
Courses with this primary discipline0 open, 1 in preparation
For Trade, supply chains and geoeconomics: the faculty's twin of Wellington on the planet map, the globe and in 3D. Pick a generator, switch layers, run the instruments; every layer prints its provider and date.
The map loads from this site as it nears the view (MapLibre 6.9.1, checked by hash).
These courses count in their own primary discipline and also teach this one; they do not count towards its achievement as primary courses.
From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
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