Welcome to the Impact Trust Glossary

Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment (ASRA)

Adaptation (climate)

Adaptive social protection

AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation)

Amplification and acceleration (of stresses)

Anticipatory action / anticipatory financing

Anticipatory governance

Attractor (complexity)

Auxiliary role

Backcasting

Basin of attraction / stability landscape

Bricolage

Budget of possibilities (Gregory Bateson)

Build back better

Cascade failure

Cascading fragility

Cascading impacts / orders of impact

Cascading risk / cascading failures

Causal entanglement

Climate crisis

Climate security

Co-design / co-production

Cognitive constraints / cognitive limits

Coherence (complex systems)

Collective intelligence

Colonised imaginations / decolonising futures

Community resilience

Complex adaptive system

Complex emergency

Compound risk / compound events

Crisis fatigue / polycrisis fatigue

Crisis narrative / framing

Critical juncture analysis

Culture of anticipation vs culture of urgency

Cynefin framework

Dematerialisation

Derailment risk

Disaster / crisis (IFRC usage)

Disaster risk reduction (DRR)

“Do no harm”