NH – Natural Hazards

Programme Group Chair: Heidi Kreibich

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Inter- and transdisciplinary sessions led by NH

Session short summary:
The Mediterranean is a climate change hotspot where intensifying extremes generate complex environmental and societal risks. This session connects advances in understanding and predicting extremes with impacts, vulnerability, adaptation and resilience, fostering transdisciplinary collaboration between physical and social sciences, stakeholders and decision-makers across the Mediterranean.
Keywords: Climate change - adaptation, Climate change - societal impact, Climate extremes, Compound events, Mediterranean
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CL | Climate: Past, Present & Future
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This session investigates the interaction between human-made interventions to adapt to contemporary climates, and how reliance on technology is intertwined with hazards. While technology is meant to make the environment liveable, it can also obscure exposure to climate hazards and as such increase exposure and vulnerability. We aim to discuss risks and impacts in an interdisciplinary context.
Keywords: Anthropocene, Climate change - adaptation, Disaster risk management, Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation) , human-natural systems
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CL | Climate: Past, Present & Future
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This session explores interdisciplinary research on societal responses to extreme events. We invite contributions on migration, (im)mobility, health, food security, conflict, and behavioral impacts, highlighting methodological innovations and challenges in bridging natural and social sciences and/or in engaging policymakers and practitioners.
Keywords: Disaster risk management, Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation) , Societal impact, Weather extreme events
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CL | Climate: Past, Present & Future
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This session examines how concurrent, sequential, spatially connected, and preconditioned weather and climate hazards affect human societies. It welcomes interdisciplinary research on health, livelihoods, food and water security, mobility, infrastructure, inequality, and risk reduction, using empirical, modelling, qualitative, participatory, or mixed methods.
Keywords: Climate change - societal impact, Climate extremes, Compound events, Human health, Weather extreme events
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CL | Climate: Past, Present & Future
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Session short summary:
Vulnerability to climate hazards is unevenly distributed and shaped by pre-existing social, economic, and political conditions. This interdisciplinary session examines how socioeconomic inequalities interact with floods, heatwaves, droughts, storms, landslides, and wildfires across scales, including impacts, long-term recovery, and new data and methods for assessing inequality in disaster risk.
Keywords: Climate change - hydrologic impact, Climate change - societal impact, Climate extremes, Vulnerability/damage assessment, human-natural systems
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HS | Hydrological Sciences
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Session short summary:
Climate change and extreme weather constitute a growing threat to the stability of societal and economical systems on a local to global scale with repercussions in insurance and finance sectors. This session, provides a platform to foster interactions between scientists, risk modellers and assessors, economists and financial experts and invites submissions on a wide range of related topics.
Keywords: Climate change - modelling, Climate change - societal impact, Climate extremes, Weather extreme events, Weather prediction (Weather forecasting)
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CL | Climate: Past, Present & Future
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This session focuses on the impact of climatic conditions on agriculture, changes in these conditions under climate change, and their implications for future production.
Keywords: Agriculture, Climate change - adaptation, Climate change - modelling, Climate extremes
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BG | Biogeosciences
CL | Climate: Past, Present & Future
Title suggestion: Climate Change and Agriculture
Description suggestion: Agriculture is […]
Convener suggestion: Puyu Feng, Siyi Li, Bin Wang, DE LI LIU Puyu Feng, Siyi Li, Bin Wang, DE LI LIU Qiang Yu
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This session explores how geodiversity and abiotic features shape cultural landscapes, beliefs, local knowledge and heritage, and how cultural interpretations influence the value and protection of geological features. It brings together cultural geology, geomythology and interdisciplinary approaches to geocultural heritage.
Keywords: Cultural heritage, Geoarchaeology, Geoheritage, Landscape dynamics, human-natural systems
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GM | Geomorphology
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Session short summary:
Exploring how science parks, innovation ecosystems, AI, and cross-sector collaboration accelerate green and digital transitions for sustainable environmental and territorial development.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Ecosystem research, Environmental changes (Environmental variability), Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models)
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GM | Geomorphology
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The year 2026 has been marked by a sequence of destructive landslides and earthquake-triggered ground failures across different geodynamic and climatic settings, offering a rare opportunity to compare hazard mechanisms, early-warning performance, and civil protection responses on a global scale.
Keywords: Earthquakes, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Remote Sensing - Landforms, Resilience
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CL | Climate: Past, Present & Future
CR | Cryospheric Sciences
SM | Seismology
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Session short summary:
The session aims to bridge systemic climate and natural hazard risk assessment, modelling, communication, and governance. By bringing together perspectives from hazard risk science, modelling, governance, policy, and practice, the session seeks to advance a more integrated understanding of how knowledge about systemic risk can inform actionable and legitimate governance responses.
Keywords: Resilience, Risk management, Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation) , Science policy
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ESSI | Earth & Space Science Informatics
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Session short summary:
Many of the most damaging disaster outcomes arise when hazards follow one another. This session brings together geoscientists, engineers, health and social scientists and practitioners to examine how earlier events change hazard, exposure and vulnerability, and how societies govern the resulting risk.
Keywords: Compound events, Disaster risk management, Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Multi-risk (management, assessments, models), Vulnerability/damage assessment
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Co-organization suggestions:
GM | Geomorphology
HS | Hydrological Sciences
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Session short summary:
This session brings together research from different parts of the world to explore how vulnerability, exposure and resilience interact across socio-environmental systems facing climate, environmental and societal pressures. Emphasising interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary co-creation, it connects diverse knowledge systems to support equitable adaptation and transformation.
Keywords: Climate change - adaptation, Resilience, Socio-ecological system, Vulnerability/damage assessment
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Co-organization suggestions:
CL | Climate: Past, Present & Future
HS | Hydrological Sciences
Title suggestion: [Climate Resilience and Sustainability]
Title suggestion: [Climate Resilience and Sustainability]
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Mountain regions are changing rapidly through interacting environmental and socio-economic processes. This session explores mountain futures to 2050, linking observations and scenarios with risk, adaptation, governance and decision-making across social-ecological systems.
Keywords: Climate change - adaptation, Mountains (Orogens), Multi-risk (management, assessments, models), Resilience, Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation)
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BG | Biogeosciences
CL | Climate: Past, Present & Future
CR | Cryospheric Sciences
HS | Hydrological Sciences
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Session short summary:
This session explores how climate change and human activities are reshaping coastal lowlands, increasing their exposure to hazards such as land subsidence, erosion, flooding, relative sea-level rise and salinity intrusion. It highlights interdisciplinary approaches, including Earth observation and modelling, to address knowledge gaps, strengthen resilience, and support sustainable management.
Keywords: Coastal environments, Morphodynamics, Resilience, Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation) , Sustainable land management (SLM)
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GM | Geomorphology
HS | Hydrological Sciences
NP | Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences
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Session short summary:
This session aims to bridge the gap between landslide research and engineering practice. We welcome contributions on new technologies for landslide detection (e.g. remote sensing), subsurface characterization using geophysics, and engineering geological models for risk mitigation. The session fosters collaboration between scientists and practitioners to promote efficient landslide risk reduction.
Keywords: Geoengineering, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Risk Mitigation
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Co-organization suggestions:
GM | Geomorphology
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Session short summary:
The year 2026 has been marked by a sequence of destructive landslides and earthquake-triggered ground failures across different geodynamic and climatic settings, offering a rare opportunity to compare hazard mechanisms, early-warning performance, and civil protection responses on a global scale.
Keywords: Earthquakes, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Remote Sensing - Landforms, Resilience
Inter- and Transdisciplinary Sessions suggestion led by: NH | Natural Hazards
Co-organization suggestions:
CL | Climate: Past, Present & Future
CR | Cryospheric Sciences
SM | Seismology
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Session short summary:
This session explores how climate adaptation progress can be measured through integrated process, output, outcome, and impact indicators. It brings together methodological, data-driven, and applied perspectives to address uncertainty, attribution, equity, and cross-scale measurement, supporting robust and actionable adaptation monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
Keywords: Climate change - adaptation, European policy, Risk management
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CL | Climate: Past, Present & Future
Title suggestion: [Climate Resilience and Sustainability]
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Session short summary:
This session addresses nature-based and community-led strategies for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in socio-ecological systems, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. We welcome inter- and transdisciplinary research on effectiveness, trade-offs, governance, and scaling pathways toward more resilient and adaptive futures.
Keywords: Climate change - adaptation, Disaster risk management, Participatory science, Resilience, Socio-ecological system
Inter- and Transdisciplinary Sessions suggestion led by: NH | Natural Hazards
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BG | Biogeosciences
CL | Climate: Past, Present & Future
HS | Hydrological Sciences
Title suggestion: [Climate Resilience and Sustainability]
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Compound extremes—concurrent or sequential hazards such as heatwave–drought or storm–flood events—pose escalating threats to cities. This session welcomes studies on their drivers, dynamics, and urban impacts, and on pathways to strengthen urban resilience, including risk assessment, early warning, adaptation planning, and nature-based solutions.
Keywords: Climate change - adaptation, Climate extremes, Resilience, Urban planning
Inter- and Transdisciplinary Sessions suggestion led by: NH | Natural Hazards
Co-organization suggestions:
CL | Climate: Past, Present & Future
Title suggestion: [Climate Resilience and Sustainability] Compound Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Urban Resilience: From Hazard Interactions to Adaptive Solutions
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Nature-based Solutions protect and manage ecosystems to tackle socio-economic and environmental issues, enhancing well-being and biodiversity. This session promotes research related to climate change adaptation focusing on complexity, scales, and ecosystem services assessment (both in soil and aquatic environments).
Keywords: Climate change - adaptation, Ecological adaptation, Ecosystem services, Resilience
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HS | Hydrological Sciences
NP | Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences
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Session short summary:
Organized under the WMO Urban-PREDICT initiative, this session explores advances in high-resolution urban Early Warning Systems for severe weather. We welcome interdisciplinary contributions across physical modeling, machine learning, impact forecasting, and co-produced risk communications and policies to bridge urban meteorology with actionable community resilience.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Early warning systems, Numerical weather prediction, Risk communication, Urban climate
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AS | Atmospheric Sciences
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Disciplinary sessions of NH

Session short summary:
Volcanic islands are hazard-prone environments where the interplay of complex geological processes poses unique scientific and logistical challenges for disaster risk reduction. Contributions of eruptive and non-eruptive hazards (as flank instabilities, landslides, tsunamis, earthquakes, and gas emissions) that can generate cascading multi-hazard scenarios are welcome.
Keywords: Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Risk/hazard scenarios modeling and forecasting, Volcanic hazard (Volcanic risk)
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GMPV11 | Volcano! - hazards, monitoring, human response, mitigation and risk
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Session short summary:
Despite significant scientific progress in developing disaster risk management tools and approaches, the policy response to anticipate and minimise the consequences of climate-induced hazards have often been limited and fragmented. Join a panel of experts in exploring this disconnect and in discussing limitations of existing approaches and solutions currently in development.
Keywords: Climate change - adaptation, Climate change - mitigation, Disaster risk management, European policy, Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models)
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NH1 –  Hydro-Meteorological Hazards

Sub-Programme Group Scientific Officer: Cristina Prieto

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Session short summary:
This multidisciplinary session joins geomorphology, hydrology, geology, geotechnical engineering, risk management, and AI to understand loess behavior and evolution from the micro- to landscape scale. The objective is to gain a deeper understanding of loess characteristics, investigate the implications for active and quiescent processes, and develop sustainable hazard mitigation strategies.
Keywords: Aeolian processes, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Slope stability, Soil erosion, Soil structure
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GM5 | Erosion, Sediments, Weathering, and Landscapes
SSS11 | Material and Methods in Soil Sciences
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Session short summary:
This session welcome the topics such as 1D, 2D and 3D modelling for flood risk assessment, emergency action planning and the analysis of dam and levees breaching, as well as the design of structural, non-structural and nature-based measures.
Keywords: Catchment hydrology - surface, Flash floods, Flood forecasting, Flood hazard (Flood risk), GIS (Geographical Information System)
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Hail is a major weather hazard with far-reaching impacts on infrastructure, agriculture, ecosystems, and society. This session brings together research on hail processes, observations, modelling, forecasting, climate, risk, and impacts, fostering interdisciplinary exchange across atmospheric and climate science, risk and insurance, and decision-making.
Keywords: Climate change - modelling, Convective storms, Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation) , Societal impact, Weather extreme events
Co-organization suggestions:
AS1 | Meteorology
CL | Climate: Past, Present & Future
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Session short summary:
Heat extremes are one of the deadliest meteorological events and they are increasing in intensity and frequency due to climate change. Their impacts on society will increase dramatically in the future, with some studies suggesting that human habitability limits could be crossed locally. This session invites new research that addresses the challenges posed by extreme heat and its impacts.
Keywords: Climate change - adaptation, Climate change - societal impact, Climate extremes, Early warning systems, Human health
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Over the past decade, heatwaves, dry spells and flash droughts have emerged as threats producing major impacts across multiple sectors. Furthermore, their rapid development hinders our ability to forecast and mitigate. This session warmly invites a wide variety of contributions on the scope of rapid-onset extremes.
Keywords: Climate extremes, Drought, Weather extreme events
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Session short summary:
Rapid drought-flood transitions are compound extremes with cascading impacts. This session invites abstracts on their mechanisms, predictability, attribution, risk, and governance. Topics include flash drought-flood links, atmospheric rivers, land-atmosphere-human feedbacks, tipping points, and socio-ecological impacts, with use of remote sensing, ESM, and AI.
Keywords: Drought, Earth system modelling, Flood hazard (Flood risk), Machine Learning, Predictability
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AS1 | Meteorology
BG9 | Earth System Remote Sensing and Modelling
CL2 | Present Climate – Historical and Direct Observations
HS2.4 | Hydrologic variability and change at multiple scales
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Session short summary:
This session will explore complex hydroclimatic extremes, their cascading risks and Impacts across water, ecosystems, agriculture, and human health. It will bring together emerging approaches for detecting both conventional and flash droughts, understanding drought-to-flood transitions, their drivers and mechanisms, and assessing their impacts in data-scarce regions.
Keywords: Agriculture, Drought, Human health, Water quality, Water scarcity
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CL0 | Inter- and Transdisciplinary Sessions
HS5 | Water and society
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Session short summary:
This session explores atmospheric electricity, from thunderstorm electrification and lightning initiation to energetic radiation and atmospheric effects. It covers observations, experiments, modelling, remote sensing, forecasting, lightning detection, climate, chemistry, severe weather, wildfires, safety, transient luminous events, and planetary lightning.
Keywords: Atmospheric chemistry, Lightning, Planetary atmospheres, Thunderstorms, Upper atmosphere
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Session short summary:
Drought risk emerges from interactions between hazards, exposure, vulnerability, impacts, and societal responses. This session brings together interdisciplinary research on drought monitoring, impacts, adaptation, water management and governance, highlighting interactions and feedbacks across sectors and scales.
Keywords: Climate change - adaptation, Disaster risk management, Drought, Societal impact, Vulnerability/damage assessment
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HS5 | Water and society
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Session short summary:
This session considers extreme events that lead to disastrous hazards induced by severe weather and climate change. These can, e.g., be tropical or extratropical rain- and wind-storms, hail, tornadoes or lightning events, but also floods, long-lasting periods of drought, periods of extremely high or of extremely low temperatures, etc.
Keywords: Climate change - anthropogenic, Convective storms, Drought, Flash floods, Weather extreme events
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NH2 –  Volcanic Hazards

Sub-Programme Group Scientific Officer: Andrea Di Muro

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Session short summary:
The session includes studies presenting a critical analysis of the sources of uncertainty in volcanic hazard assessment and offering an integrated quantification of the multihazards associated with volcanic activity and implications for educational programs for risk mitigation.
Keywords: Education, Risk Mitigation, Uncertainty analysis, Volcanic hazard (Volcanic risk)
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Recent eruptions offer opportunities to investigate magmatic systems in near-real time while highlighting their societal impacts. This multidisciplinary session welcomes near-real time studies of magma storage and transport, eruption dynamics, monitoring, modelling and crisis response, bringing together scientists and hazard managers.
Keywords: Geophysical reservoir monitoring, Petrology, Volcanic hazard (Volcanic risk), Volcanic plumbing systems, Volcano monitoring (Volcano surveillance)
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GMPV10 | Physical and chemical processes in volcanic systems
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Session short summary:
The session explores opportunities, limitations, risks, and perspectives of AI in volcano science and volcanic hazard assessment. We welcome work across geophysics, remote sensing, monitoring, modelling, petrology, geochemistry, and hazard assessment, including emerging approaches like digital twins and agentic AI, with focus on how AI could contribute to scientific knowledge and decision-making.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Volcanic hazard (Volcanic risk), Volcanic plumbing systems, Volcano monitoring (Volcano surveillance)
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GMPV11 | Volcano! - hazards, monitoring, human response, mitigation and risk
GS6 | Geoscience, Risk & Decision-Making
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Session short summary:
Hazard situations are often analysed retrospectively and through separate disciplinary perspectives. This session examines how scientific knowledge, institutional planning, risk communication and emergency management interact across the phases preceding, accompanying and following a hazard, and how scenarios, responsibilities and forms of knowledge are integrated.
Keywords: Disaster risk management, Volcanic hazard (Volcanic risk)
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NH3 –  Landslide and Snow Avalanche Hazards

Sub-Programme Group Scientific Officer: Neelima Satyam

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Session short summary:
Debris flows pose major risks to people and infrastructure in mountainous and volcanic regions. This session invites contributions on field studies, experiments, modelling, monitoring, and risk assessment, with a focus on improving observations, understanding impacts of climate change, and harnessing physics-based simulations and AI for hazard prediction and mitigation.
Keywords: Landslide dynamics, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Numerical modelling - mechanical, Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation) , Risk/hazard scenarios modeling and forecasting
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GM3 | Geomorphology, extreme events, and hazards
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Session short summary:
This session revolves around methodologies and state-of-the-art approaches in landslide prediction, encompassing aspects like location, timing, magnitude, and the impact of single and multiple slope failures. It spans a range of landslide variations, from abrupt rockfalls to rapid debris flows, and slow-moving slides to sudden rock avalanches.
Keywords: Anthropogenic hazard, Hillslope geomorphology, Landslide dynamics, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation)
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GM3 | Geomorphology, extreme events, and hazards
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Session short summary:
This session aims to bridge process-based physical understanding and data-driven prediction in landslide and multi-hazard assessment. We invite contributions on multi-scale frameworks (slope to catchment), geomechanics-based spatial analysis, explainable AI, physics-informed ML, process chain assessments, and uncertainty propagation.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Compound events, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Machine Learning, Model uncertainty
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GM3 | Geomorphology, extreme events, and hazards
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Session short summary:
Landslides threaten lives and assets worldwide. Aligned with the aims of the International Consortium on Landslides, this session gathers advances in landslide and ground deformation monitoring: in situ, ground-based, UAV and satellite SAR, multi-sensor integration, displacement-based early warning, and new tools including AI and big data. Low-cost, transferable solutions especially welcome.
Keywords: Early warning systems, Ground-based remote sensing, Landslide dynamics, Monitoring strategies, Satellite time series
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GM3 | Geomorphology, extreme events, and hazards
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Session short summary:
Climate change is reshaping landslide hazard directly, through shifting rainfall, temperature, and snowmelt regimes, and indirectly, through climate-related factors such as land use/cover change. This session invites studies on climate change impacts on landslides and slope-atmosphere interactions, via monitoring, modelling, and data-driven approaches across different contexts and scales.
Keywords: Climate change - geomorphic impact, Land use, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Precipitation extreme events (Extreme rainfall events), Slope stability
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CL0 | Inter- and Transdisciplinary Sessions
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Session short summary:
This session focuses on the integrated use of geophysical, geological, geotechnical, and remote sensing methods to enhance the recognition, monitoring, forecasting and early warning of slope instabilities. We invite contributions on methodological developments and case studies on characterization and the evolution of natural landslides, engineered slopes, and climate-driven failures.
Keywords: Electromagnetic methods (EM methods), Hydrogeophysics, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Remote Sensing - Landforms, Seismic imaging
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GM5 | Erosion, Sediments, Weathering, and Landscapes
HS8.2 | Subsurface hydrology – Groundwater
SM6 | Seismic Imaging (from near-surface to global scale, incl. methodological developments)
SSS2 | Soil Erosion and Conservation
TS1 | Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology, and Rock-Fluid Interactions
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Session short summary:
Landslide occurrences vary across temporal and spatial scales challenging assumptions regarding the invariance of processes. Short-term and long-term temporal effects such as landslide preconditioning and spatial coincidences like path-dependency highlight key knowledge gaps. This session invites contributions that explore these interrelated themes using diverse methods across all scales.
Keywords: Landscape evolution, Landslide dynamics, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Spatial variability, Temporal variability
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GM3 | Geomorphology, extreme events, and hazards
NP3 | Scales, Scaling and Nonlinear Variability
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Session short summary:
Rockfalls, rockslides, rock avalanches and alpine mass movements are some of the most destructive processes. In this session, we bring together cutting-edge research on identifying, predicting, assessing, quantifying, and protecting against rock slope hazards and alpine mass movements such as rock-ice avalanches, glacier-related hazards, debris flows or hazard cascades.
Keywords: Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Periglacial processes, Permafrost, Rock mechanics, Rock physics
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CR2 | lce sheets, ice shelves and glaciers
GM3 | Geomorphology, extreme events, and hazards
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Session short summary:
Process-based modelling of debris flows and snow avalanches aims to link the physical phenomena governing triggering, erosion, flow evolution and deposition into predictive capabilities. Contributions are invited on coupled modelling approaches and the transfer of information across process stages and scales, with particular attention to applications for hazard assessment and early warning.
Keywords: Early warning systems, Landslide dynamics, Modelling techniques, Risk/hazard scenarios modeling and forecasting, Snow avalanche
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CR5 | Snow and ice: properties, processes, hazards
GM3 | Geomorphology, extreme events, and hazards
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Session short summary:
Landslide studies increasingly rely on integrating multi-sensor and multi-temporal observations for detection, characterization, and monitoring. This session welcomes contributions on Machine Learning detection and classification algorithms, geomorphological mapping, optical and SAR data, and multi-temporal DEMs (bistatic SAR) for landslide susceptibility and early-warning applications.
Keywords: Digital elevation model (DEM), Hillslope geomorphology, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Machine Learning, Remote Sensing - Landforms
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ESSI1 | Next-Generation Analytics for Scientific Discovery: Data Science, Machine Learning, AI
G2 | Reference Frames and Geodetic Observing Systems
GM3 | Geomorphology, extreme events, and hazards
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Session short summary:
This session aims to collect contributions exploring the broad topic of the quality of landslide inventory maps, from basic definitions and assessment to its impact on derivative models, map and use.
Keywords: Digital mapping, GIS (Geographical Information System), Landslide hazard (Landslide risk)
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Session short summary:
Advances in environmental monitoring and modelling enable new insights into links between hydroclimatic forcing, terrain susceptibility, and rapid alpine mass movements, such as rockfalls, landslides, debris flows, and snow avalanches. We invite contributions on large-area assessments of drivers, hazards, and risks, integrating physics-based, empirical-statistical, and machine learning approaches.
Keywords: Climate change - geomorphic impact, Hillslope geomorphology, Hydroclimatic variability, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation)
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GM3 | Geomorphology, extreme events, and hazards
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Session short summary:
Large landslides represent enormous risks. We invite to present case studies, share views and data, discuss monitoring and modeling approaches and tools, to introduce new approaches for threshold definition, including advanced numerical modeling, machine learning for streamline and offline data analyses, development of monitoring tools, and dating or investigation techniques.
Keywords: Early warning systems, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Monitoring strategies
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Session short summary:
Landslide early warning systems (LEWS) are cost-effective tools for reducing landslide risk, applicable from local slopes to regional scales. This session explores advances in monitoring, modelling, forecasting, warning and response, including IoT, remote sensing, hydro-meteorological thresholds, operational applications, machine learning, and emerging technologies for reliable and effective LEWS.
Keywords: Climate change - societal impact, Disaster risk management, Early warning systems, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), human-natural systems
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GS6 | Geoscience, Risk & Decision-Making
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This session explores hydrological and eco-hydrological processes controlling landslide predisposing and triggering conditions. We welcome studies on rainfall infiltration, pore-water pressure, preferential flow, soil–bedrock interactions, and vegetation effects, using field monitoring, physics-based, and data-driven approaches to improve landslide forecasting and early warning.
Keywords: Early warning systems, Ecohydrology, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Soil infiltration, vegetation processes
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HS2.4 | Hydrologic variability and change at multiple scales
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Coastal cliff instability is an increasing hazard across Europe due to climate change, sea-level rise and environmental forcing. This session welcomes contributions on monitoring, remote sensing, field and laboratory investigations, numerical modelling, digital twins, machine learning and AI to improve hazard assessment, forecast cliff evolution and support coastal adaptation.
Keywords: Climate change - geomorphic impact, Coastal geomorphology, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Long term monitoring, Numerical modelling - thermal-hydraulic- mechanical-chemical (THMC)
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EMRP1 | Rock and Mineral Physics
GM | Geomorphology
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NH4 –  Earthquake Hazards

Sub-Programme Group Scientific Officer: Ioanna Triantafyllou

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Session short summary:
This session explores advances in understanding earthquake occurrence in space, time, and magnitude through physical, statistical, and data-driven approaches. Contributions are welcome on earthquake statistics, clustering, physics-based models, catalog reliability, machine learning, forecasting, and seismic hazard assessment.
Keywords: Earthquake forecasting, Earthquakes, Machine Learning, Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation) , Statistical methods (Geostatistical methods)
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SM8 | Seismic Hazard (earthquake forecasting, engineering seismology, seismic and multi-hazard assessment)
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Session short summary:
The session explores physical, statistical and data-driven models for earthquake and cascading hazards/risks assessment. Contributions are welcome on the following topics: multi-scale, time-dependent hazard assessment; earthquake induced hazards and risks; early warning systems; exposure and vulnerability assessment; social issues in seismic risk mitigation.
Keywords: Disaster risk management, Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Multi-risk (management, assessments, models), Risk/hazard scenarios modeling and forecasting, Seismic hazard (Seismic risk)
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SM8 | Seismic Hazard (earthquake forecasting, engineering seismology, seismic and multi-hazard assessment)
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Cyclic soil response is governed by grain-scale changes in contacts, fabric and pore structure, yet predictions are made at specimen, slope or system scale. This session welcomes laboratory, imaging, DEM/particle-based, constitutive and field studies on liquefaction, pore-pressure build-up, stiffness degradation and large deformations, especially those linking observations across scales.
Keywords: Earthquake sources, Numerical modelling - mechanical, Soil degradation, Soil structure
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Session short summary:
This session explores time-dependent earthquake and volcanic hazard forecasting, cascading effects (e.g., tsunamis), and multi-domain Earth system processes. We invite interdisciplinary studies integrating multiparametric ground/satellite observations (EM anomalies, LAIC, geodetic/geochemical data), AI/ML methods, numerical modeling, space weather influences, and innovative monitoring platforms.
Keywords: Earthquake forecasting, Electromagnetic methods (EM methods), Ionospheric coupling, Satellite time series, Seismic hazard (Seismic risk)
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AS | Atmospheric Sciences
EMRP | Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics
ESSI | Earth & Space Science Informatics
GD | Geodynamics
GI | Geosciences Instrumentation & Data Systems
SM | Seismology
ST | Solar-Terrestrial Sciences
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Session short summary:
The session is focused on: a) ground and atmospheric seismic precursors, b) electromagnetic seismic precursors, c) lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere coupling, d) theoretical model of seismic precursors, e) future research plans
Keywords: Analogue modelling (Experimental modelling / Laboratory modelling), Earthquake forecasting, Electromagnetic methods (EM methods)
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NH5 –  Sea & Ocean Hazards

Sub-Programme Group Scientific Officer: Naveen Ragu Ramalingam

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Session short summary:
This session aims to deepen our understanding of tsunamis and improve our capacity to build safer and more resilient tsunami communities. It invites contributions on observations data, real-time networks, modeling, risk assessment, and TEWS tools. Submissions on recent events, are encouraged for advancing research and preparedness
Keywords: Early warning systems, Earthquakes, Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation) , Tsunami
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NH6 –  Remote Sensing, AI, data science & Hazards

Sub-Programme Group Scientific Officer: Kasra Rafiezadeh Shahi

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Session short summary:
In this session, we aim to consolidate the widely varying research on exposure models. We welcome contributions on the creation or analysis of exposure models (e.g., people, buildings, critical infrastructure), or the use for risk assessment.
Keywords: Big data - modelling, Data Science, Digital mapping, GIS (Geographical Information System), Risk management
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Session short summary:
This session explores how Earth observation, geospatial data, and AI/GeoAI can support natural hazard monitoring, risk assessment, damage mapping, and decision-making. It emphasizes trustworthy, interoperable, and operational approaches that bridge research and practice across the disaster-management cycle.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Disaster risk management, Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation) , Satellites, Vulnerability/damage assessment
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Session short summary:
The session is dedicated to multidisciplinary contributions related to the use of EO for natural hazard and risk management, including forecasting models, rapid mapping, post-disaster recovery & strategies and assessment Tools. Early-stage researchers are strongly encouraged to present their research, as well as contributions from international cooperation, such as CEOS and GEO initiatives.
Keywords: Disaster risk management, Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Multi-risk (management, assessments, models), Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation) , Risk/hazard scenarios modeling and forecasting
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Session short summary:
Compound extremes and cascading hazards emerge from interactions among atmospheric, land-surface, hydrological and ecological processes operating across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Recent advances in multi-sensor data fusion and AI/ML provide new opportunities to resolve these interactions and identify the processes governing the emergence, amplification and transition of extreme events.
Keywords: Climate extremes, Compound events, Land-atmosphere interactions, Machine Learning, Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models)
Co-organization suggestions:
AS2 | Boundary Layer Processes
BG9 | Earth System Remote Sensing and Modelling
ERE5 | Process coupling and monitoring
ESSI1 | Next-Generation Analytics for Scientific Discovery: Data Science, Machine Learning, AI
GI4 | Earth Observation Systems and Instrumentation
GM3 | Geomorphology, extreme events, and hazards
HS6 | Remote sensing and data assimilation
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Session short summary:
This session aims to collect contributions on various geohazards detected, characterized or monitored with the EGMS data. We aim to highlight the versatility and value of EGMS data for understanding and mitigating the risks associated with natural and man-made induced geohazards.
Keywords: InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar), Landslide hazard (Landslide risk), Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Remote Sensing - Landforms, Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation)
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Session short summary:
SAR remote sensing is an invaluable tool for monitoring and responding to natural and human-induced hazards. This session welcomes contributions on algorithm development for SAR data processing, multimodal remote sensing, geospatial big data analytics, and machine learning, SAR applications for natural and human-induced hazards, mathematical and physical modeling, and data interpretation.
Keywords: Anthropogenic hazard, InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar), Monitoring and diagnostics
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Session short summary:
This session mainly highlights the importance of advances in Earth observation techniques and their links to progress in disaster risk governance beyond research, as well as to institutional practices.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Climate change - adaptation, Disaster risk management, Sustainability
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NH7 –  Wildfire Hazards

Sub-Programme Group Scientific Officer: Andrea Trucchia

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Session short summary:
We invite contributions on wildfire-induced changes in soils and rocks and their effects on slope instability, sediment connectivity and landscape evolution. Field and laboratory studies, inventories, monitoring and modelling of individual and cascading geohydrological processes are welcome, alongside hazard assessment and risk management.
Keywords: Hillslope geomorphology, Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Sediment dynamics, Slope stability, Wildfire
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Session short summary:
The 2026 wildfire season showed that risk is intensifying and expanding across Europe, including regions with limited experience of large fires. This session welcomes research and practice on wildfire risk, vulnerability and resilience, spanning natural and social sciences, engineering and governance, from risk assessment to preparedness, prevention, recovery and policy.
Keywords: Disaster risk management, Resilience, Science policy, Vulnerability/damage assessment, Wildfire
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GS8 | Science for Policy & Governance
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Session short summary:
This session explores the spatial and temporal dynamics of wildfires through remote sensing, geospatial analysis, AI, and data-driven and numerical modelling. It brings together interdisciplinary approaches to wildfire detection, prediction, risk assessment, fire spread, and post-fire recovery, fostering new insights into wildfire processes and impacts.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Land-atmosphere interactions, Risk/hazard scenarios modeling and forecasting, Statistical methods (Geostatistical methods), Wildfire
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BG1 | General Biogeosciences
SSS9 | Soil, Forestry and Agriculture
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Session short summary:
This session welcomes research on the development, validation, curation, and reuse of remote sensing-derived wildfire datasets. We invite contributions using airborne and/or spaceborne optical, thermal, hyperspectral, SAR, or LiDAR data, with a focus on accessible, interoperable, scalable, extensible, and FAIR-compliant datasets.
Keywords: Big data - challenges, Big data - modelling, Data access, Data assimilation, Wildfire
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BG9 | Earth System Remote Sensing and Modelling
ESSI3 | Open Science Informatics for Earth and Space Sciences
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NH8 –  Environmental, Biological & Natech Hazards

Sub-Programme Group Scientific Officer: Jasmine Rita Petriglieri

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Session short summary:
This session covers natural and artificial radioactivity in the environment, from radon and NORM to fallout and legacy contamination. We welcome studies on radionuclides as environmental tracers, radiation hazard and risk assessment, and public health, as well as new detectors, AI-based analysis, robotic platforms and UAV surveys for radioactivity monitoring and mapping.
Keywords: Contaminated soil, Digital mapping, Groundwater, Monitoring strategies, Radionuclides
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GI2 | Data networks and analysis
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NH9 –  Natural Hazards & Society

Sub-Programme Group Scientific Officer: Dominik Paprotny

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Session short summary:
This session provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners to share cutting-edge research and practical insights, highlighting diverse approaches to understanding and reducing urban risk.
Keywords: Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Risk Mitigation, Risk management, Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation) , Risk/hazard scenarios modeling and forecasting
Co-organization suggestions:
GS6 | Geoscience, Risk & Decision-Making
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Session short summary:
Copilot said: This session highlights the latest advances in global and continental natural hazard risk assessment, fostering exchange of data, methods, models, and best practices across disciplines. It explores how risk information is co-produced, communicated, and applied in policy, adaptation, and disaster risk reduction, while identifying future research priorities.
Keywords: Climate change - adaptation, Compound events, Disaster risk management, Risk communication, Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation)
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GS6 | Geoscience, Risk & Decision-Making
HS2.5 | Global and (sub)continental hydrology
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Session short summary:
This session covers the costs of natural hazard, from economic costs, cascading and systemic losses, and intangible impacts like health and social vulnerability, across all hazard types, addressing data gaps, uncertainty, modelling, calibration and theoretical frameworks for risk reduction and adaptation.
Keywords: Climate change - societal impact, Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation) , Risk/hazard scenarios modeling and forecasting, Societal impact
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Session short summary:
The Amazon Basin is a sensitive region that is increasingly exposed to socio-natural hazards intensified by climate and land-use change. This session welcomes research on floods, droughts, extreme rainfall, landslides, riverbank erosion and wildfires, including compound and cascading impacts, monitoring, forecasting, risk assessment, and integration of scientific and local knowledge.
Keywords: Climate change - societal impact, Environmental changes (Environmental variability), Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation) , Risk/hazard scenarios modeling and forecasting
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GS6 | Geoscience, Risk & Decision-Making
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Session short summary:
The session aims to connect advances in disaster risk science with the challenges of effective adaptation and anticipatory action. We bring together perspectives from climate and environmental risk, humanitarian action, food security, ecology, human mobility and disaster preparedness, and move beyond predicting impacts towards protecting assets, communities and ecosystems.
Keywords: Climate change - adaptation, Climate change - societal impact, Disaster risk management, Early warning systems, Multi-risk (management, assessments, models)
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Session short summary:
Natural hazard impacts are shaped by the decisions and interactions of heterogeneous households and firms, which aggregate models struggle to capture. This session brings together agent-based and other bottom-up modelling approaches that model how disasters propagate through societies, supply chains and economies, and how recovery unfolds over time.
Keywords: Modelling techniques, Resilience, Societal impact, Vulnerability/damage assessment, human-natural systems
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ERE6 | Inter- and Transdisciplinary Sessions (ITS)
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Session short summary:
We invite work co-designing disaster risk research with citizens and stakeholders—beyond data collection. Contributions may couple participatory knowledge with hazard modelling, remote sensing, and AI, and trace its uptake into policy across hazards, phases, and regions.
Keywords: Citizens & crowdsourcing, Disaster risk management, Participatory science, Vulnerability/damage assessment
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Session short summary:
We invite work co-designing disaster risk research with citizens and stakeholders—beyond data collection. Contributions may couple participatory knowledge with hazard modelling, remote sensing, and AI, and trace its uptake into policy across hazards, phases, and regions.
Keywords: Citizens & crowdsourcing, Disaster risk management, Participatory science, Vulnerability/damage assessment
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NH10 –  Multi-Hazards

Sub-Programme Group Scientific Officer: Silvia De Angeli

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Session short summary:
Natural hazards and disease outbreaks increasingly co-occur, and their cascading impacts complicate response and worsen overall risk. This session brings together work on outbreak dynamics after hazard events, health and health systems as components of disaster risk, health metrics in multi-hazard frameworks, and disease modelling for early warning and anticipatory action.
Keywords: Climate change - societal impact, Human health, Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Vulnerability/damage assessment
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CL3.2 | Future Climate – Climate and Society
GS6 | Geoscience, Risk & Decision-Making
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Session short summary:
This session focuses on innovations in methods, tools and technologies for climate and multi-hazard risk assessment by highlighting the urgent need to develop and apply innovative technologies and methodologies to assess risks. We also welcome critical discussions of implementation challenges, barriers, and lessons learned from both successful and unsuccessful deployment experiences.
Keywords: Climate change - adaptation, Climate system dynamics, Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Multi-risk (management, assessments, models), Socio-ecological system
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Session short summary:
This session brings together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from diverse disciplines to explore advances and approaches for translating multi-risk science into policy and practice. We encourage interdisciplinary contributions that bridge scientific understanding of multi-risk with practical, context-specific solutions and informed decision-making to build resilient communities.
Keywords: Disaster risk management, Multi-risk (management, assessments, models), Participatory science, Science policy, human-natural systems
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Session short summary:
This session explores how geospatial intelligence, GIS, AI/ML, Geo-AI, digital twins and real-time analytics can advance multi-hazard risk assessment, early warning, preparedness, response and resilience, with emphasis on compound and cascading hazards, climate resilience and risk-informed decision support.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Disaster risk management, GIS (Geographical Information System), Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Remote Sensing - Landforms
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Session short summary:
The session aims to connect communities that often investigate individual components of the same cascade separately and to advance a process based understanding of how interacting hazards initiate, evolve, and propagate. Such understanding provides the physical foundation needed for subsequent multi-hazard modelling, forecasting, early warning, and risk assessment.
Keywords: Climate extremes, Earth system modelling, Geomorphometry, Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Risk/hazard scenarios modeling and forecasting
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GM3 | Geomorphology, extreme events, and hazards
NP1 | Mathematics of Planet Earth
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Session short summary:
Cities face interconnected risks from heat, flooding, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem degradation. This session welcomes quantitative studies using modelling, machine learning, remote sensing, and field observations to assess how nature-based solutions can reduce climate risks, support biodiversity, and strengthen urban ecological resilience.
Keywords: Climate change - adaptation, Machine Learning, Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation) , Urban planning, Water infrastructures
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BG3 | Terrestrial Biogeosciences
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Session short summary:
This session advances understanding of compound climate and hydrometeorological extremes in data-scarce regions, emphasizing observations, local impacts and cascading risks. Contributions are invited using observations, remote sensing, historical records, field data and innovative evidence to address uncertainty, vulnerability, risk and locally relevant adaptation.
Keywords: Climate change - adaptation, Climate extremes, Compound events, Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation)
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Session short summary:
This session will showcase innovative approaches to multi-(hazard) risk assessment and management, focusing on advancing the understanding of risk components (hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and capacity) in multi-hazard settings, as well as applications of multi-hazard thinking in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation.
Keywords: Climate change - societal impact, Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Multi-risk (management, assessments, models), Societal impact, Vulnerability/damage assessment
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CL0 | Inter- and Transdisciplinary Sessions
GS6 | Geoscience, Risk & Decision-Making
HS5 | Water and society
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Session short summary:
Multi-hazards require relevant, rapid and clear communication to elicit appropriate response to risks that develop concurrently, trigger one another or compound the disruption. This session aims to explore how operational and public practice can adopt new modes and frameworks of forecasting, warning and alerting to achieve the goals of understandable, actionable and effective communication.
Keywords: Early warning systems, Multi-hazard (management, assessments, models), Multi-risk (management, assessments, models), Risk communication
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NH11 –  Climate Hazards

Sub-Programme Group Scientific Officer: Steven Hardiman

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Session short summary:
This session focuses on physical understanding and modelling of weather and climate hazards under human-induced climate change: what drives these hazards, including unprecedented, compound, and consecutive extremes, and how well do climate models capture them, representing the basis for attribution and projections. Contributions on impacts, exposure, adaptation and policy are explicitly welcome.
Keywords: Climate change - societal impact, Climate extremes, Climate prediction, Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation) , Risk/hazard scenarios modeling and forecasting
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CL | Climate: Past, Present & Future
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Session short summary:
Cold temperatures and cold extremes remain a significant source of environmental and societal risk, even under warming. This session aims to bring together researchers from various disciplines, including climatology, meteorology, hydrology, ecology, biometeorology and impact-focused disciplines, to advance our understanding of cold weather, its changes and its role in the changing climate.
Keywords: Climate change - anthropogenic, Climate change - societal impact, Climate extremes, Climate variability, Human health
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Session short summary:
Wildfire disturbance breaks the stationarity assumptions underlying flood forecasting, and a warming climate intensifies the risk further. This session welcomes contributions on topics including, but not limited to, how Earth observation and machine learning can detect, model, and provide early warning for these compound, non-stationary fire-to-flood extremes under a changing climate.
Keywords: Compound events, Flood hazard (Flood risk), Machine Learning, Satellites, Wildfire
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Session short summary:
This session explores how observation, prediction, and adaptation can be connected to strengthen agricultural resilience to droughts, heatwaves, floods, and compound extremes. Contributions are invited on Earth Observation, AI and modelling, early warning, agro-hydrological processes, and practical decision-support for climate-resilient agriculture.
Keywords: Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Compound events, Remote Sensing - Biosphere, Risk/hazard scenarios modeling and forecasting
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CL | Climate: Past, Present & Future
ESSI | Earth & Space Science Informatics
HS | Hydrological Sciences
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Session short summary:
This session brings together work that links tropical cyclone (TC) physics and circulation to local processes, impacts, risk, and the performance of adaptation options. We welcome contributions on climate and modelling, downscaling and ensembles, TC related impact and risk assessment, and decision-support for TC risk reduction.
Keywords: Climate change - adaptation, Climate change - societal impact, Cyclones, Hurricanes, Weather extreme events
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Suggested session
Limits of Adaptation
Session short summary:
This session welcomes abstracts considering how to conceptualise, assess, project and avoid adaptation limits. The session aims to facilitate discussions about interdisciplinary research on adaptation and its limits by bringing together experts in climate, natural hazards and the social sciences.
Keywords: Anthropogenic response, Climate change - adaptation, Risk management, Risk/hazard Assessment (identification, Analysis and Evaluation) , human-natural systems
Co-organization suggestions:
BG8 | Biogeosciences, Policy and Society
CL3.2 | Future Climate – Climate and Society
HS5 | Water and society
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