Whitepaper Transboundary Resilience

The 21st Century is the century of transboundary crises. The 2006 European blackout, the 2013-16 Ebola outbreaks, the wildfires of 2017 and 2018, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2020 and 2021 floods in Europe are examples of transboundary crises, ‘characterized by the potential to cross geographic and functional boundaries, jumping from one system to another’.
In this Whitepaper we observe the emergence of ‘transboundary resilience’ as a new practice of disaster risk governance and develop it as a concept that could mitigate the nightmare of transboundary crises.