Edge Long-term Risk Workstream

the Edge believes that the built and natural environment sector needs to seriously and comprehensively address the topic of long-term risk (aka chronic risk) and learn from other sectors in how to understand, assess and prioritise effective and appropriate action in th3e face of a changing environment.

This page brings together some of the Edge’s inititatives on the subject.

• a paper by Edge member, Simon Foxell, in Buildings & Cities journal on Climate change risk and decisiuon-making

• Edge Roundtable 191: Addressing long term risk in the built and natural environment

• Edge Conversation 190: How prepared are we? - Lucy Cavendish Cambridge

• Edge Debate #7 Construction feedback: What can insurance offer best practice?

Links:

• Climate Change Risk and Decision-Making, Special Issue of Building & Cities (2026)

• The Fourth Climate Change Risk Assessment – Independent Assessment (CCRA4-IA) Technical Report

• Chronic Risk Analysis, Cabinet Office, Government Office for Science and Foresight, July 2025

• National Risk Register, Cabinet Office (2025)

• The concept of risk in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, IPCC, (2020)

• Climate Change - A Risk Assessment, King D,. et al, (2015)