The overall goal of this session is to share innovative approaches to multi-(hazard) risk assessments, including research on the characterisation of risk components (i.e., hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and capacity) in a multi-(hazard) risk setting, as well as novel applications of multi-hazard thinking in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation.
Effective DRR requires evaluating multiple hazards and their interactions, as endorsed by the UN's Sendai Framework and reflected in the IPCC’s AR6 cycle. These frameworks highlight the need to understand how physical and societal factors shape disasters in a changing climate. Multi-(hazard) risk assessments examine how interactions and overlaps among hazards affect exposure and vulnerability, especially in the context of climate change and slow-onset hazards like pandemics, where dynamic changes are challenging to quantify.
This session aims to profile a diverse range of multi-(hazard) risk and impact approaches, including hazard interactions, multi-vulnerability studies, and multi-hazard exposure characterisation. By addressing the entire risk assessment chain—including risk analysis, evaluation, and management—this session seeks to identify potential research gaps, synergies, and opportunities for collaborations.
We encourage abstracts that present original research, case studies, and commentary throughout the disaster risk management cycle on topics such as: (i) multi-(hazard) risk methodologies addressing exposure, vulnerability, and impacts; (ii) tools for multi-(hazard) risk assessment, management, and inclusive risk-informed decision-making; (iii) methodologies for defining and managing multi-hazard scenarios for (near) real-time applications; (iv) cross-sectoral approaches to multi-(hazard) risk, incorporating physical, social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions; (v) uncertainty in multi-(hazard) risk and impact assessment; (vi) evaluation of multi-(hazard) risk under future climate conditions and slow-onset hazards, including pandemics; (vii) implementation of DRR measures from a multi-hazard perspective, focusing on synergies and conflicts between measures for different hazards; (viii) multi-hazard early warning systems; (ix) climate and impact attribution studies of complex extremes to better understand the role of climate change, exposure, and vulnerability concerning disaster impacts.