PICO
Climate- and weather-related losses continue to rise, even as scientific understanding and risk management efforts expand. While climate change intensifies the frequency and magnitude of many hazards, evolving exposure patterns and the multidimensional nature of vulnerability are equally decisive drivers of risk. This session examines the dynamic interplay of these factors across physical, social, environmental and institutional dimensions to understand how hazards, exposure, and vulnerability co-evolve in space and time, and how those dynamics shape risk outcomes in the Anthropocene.
We invite contributions that move beyond static assumptions and address nonstationarity, compounding events, and cascading failures. Hazard regimes are changing, and their interactions can amplify impacts in the built environment. Submissions that analyze triggers, propagation, and recovery processes are particularly welcome.
Exposure is growing as urbanization intensifies, economies expand, and infrastructure networks densify, yet its spatio-temporal dynamics remain under-characterized. We encourage work that maps and models exposure trajectories under shared socio-economic pathways, evaluates the effectiveness and unintended consequences of mitigation and land-use measures, and explores how mobility, land-use change, and supply-chain linkages redistribute risk.
Understanding the vulnerability of elements at risk is crucial, because it governs the severity of impacts from climate hazards and is key to reducing future losses. The challenges of the Anthropocene require widening definitions and assessing shifts across multiple interacting hazards and contexts to address the multidimensional, dynamic character of vulnerability. However, the growing complexity of managing multiple domains, scales, and disciplines can impede holistic perspectives. We welcome studies that integrate socio-ecological, behavioral, engineering, institutional, and contextual information. Interdisciplinary and mixed-method approaches that bridge datasets and improve data interoperability, validation of vulnerability functions, and synthesis of evidence are encouraged.
We aim to foster transferable, adaptive risk management that connects landscape processes with human activities and supports equitable climate adaptation. By integrating the dynamics of hazards, exposure and vulnerability, this session advances coherent pathways to manage climate risk in the Anthropocene.