Slow-onset events include multiple hazards like climate change, sea level rise, coastal erosion, riverbank erosion, drought, desertification, glacial retreat, soil degradation, ocean acidification, biodiversity loss etc. All these events are inherently land degradation processes and therefore, have a detrimental impact on livelihood and sustainability of the affected population. Even though they have a pervasive and long term impact, there is a tendency to give more importance to sudden events like earthquakes, landslides etc that cause large scale loss to life and property. This means that a concerted effort to develop risk reduction strategies for slow-onset events is lacking. International organizations such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Sendai Framework acknowledge the limitations of our current risk reduction framework for slow-onset events. They agree that there are notable gaps in our understanding of these events and therefore, in developing effective disaster risk reduction plans. Thus, the proposed session aims to fill this gap by welcoming papers from around the globe that investigate various slow-onset hazards and their impact as land degradation processes. The session also aims to identify common strategies that can be developed into risk reduction approaches for slow-onset events.