Disasters triggered by natural hazards increasingly cause profound and long-lasting disruptions to economic, social, and ecological systems. These challenges are intensifying under climate change, with compound and cascading events (e.g. floods, wildfires, heatwaves, droughts) emerging from interacting physical, social, and economic drivers. Conventional risk assessment frameworks—focused on single hazards—often fail to capture these systemic, interdependent dynamics.
Strengthening the systemic resilience of communities, cities, regions, and countries —i.e. their ability to resist, recover, adapt, and transform under rising uncertainty— is gaining urgency. Yet empirical evidence remains fragmented, definitions and metrics are inconsistent, and robust methods for understanding resilience dynamics are still emerging. Advancing disaster- and climate-resilient development therefore requires innovative frameworks, assessment methodologies, and actionable strategies that explicitly address multi-hazard and cascading risk contexts.
This session invites inter- and transdisciplinary contributions on systemic resilience to multi-hazards, including studies on single hazards that reveal broader mechanisms, drivers, or strategies. Topics include but are not limited to:
• Conceptual and analytical frameworks for assessing and modelling resilience (e.g. indicators, process- vs. outcome-based metrics, agent-based modelling, remote sensing).
• Mechanisms of resilience to compound and cascading hazards, linking infrastructures, ecosystems, and institutions.
• Strategies and interventions for building systemic resilience, including digital tools, AI, adaptive planning, nature-based solutions, early warning systems, built infrastructure, and the roles of social capital and adaptive capacity in enabling transformation.
• Justice and equity perspectives: integrating local knowledge, historical lessons, cultural legacies, and ethical considerations into climate-resilient development.
• Drivers, constraints, and enabling conditions across social, economic, ecological, technological, political, and psychological domains.
• Comparative or longitudinal studies identifying resilience mechanisms and context-specific interventions across scales.
• Stakeholder engagement through citizen science, participatory approaches, and co-production bridging research and practice.