Composite indicators for vulnerability and resilience — SoVI, ND-GAIN, INFORM, national climate risk indices — have proliferated across research and policy communities over the past decade. Yet the pathway from indicator to institutional action remains under-theorised. Which indicators actually enter governance processes? At which scales are they legible? Where do they reshape decisions, and where do they merely accompany them?
This session invites contributions that trace this pathway across scales, from household and neighbourhood measurement to municipal, regional, and national adaptation planning. We are particularly interested in ageing societies, where compound climate–demographic pressures — heat exposure, social isolation, care-system strain, mobility loss — expose the limits of conventional indicator frameworks and demand new integrations across environmental, health, and social data.
Contributions are welcome on:
• Methodological advances in composite vulnerability and resilience measurement, including uncertainty quantification, sensitivity analysis, and integration of qualitative evidence
• Governance case studies where indicators demonstrably shaped adaptation policy, risk allocation, or resource distribution — and where they did not
• Cross-national comparisons of indicator uptake across governance systems (EU, East and Southeast Asia, Global South)
• Participatory and community-based measurement approaches that bridge technical and lived-experience knowledge
• Applications focused on ageing populations, long-term care systems, and intergenerational climate risk
• Institutional and knowledge-brokering mechanisms that translate indicators into decisions
The session welcomes both quantitative and qualitative work, single-country deep dives and comparative studies. By bringing measurement scientists, governance scholars, and practitioners together within GS, we aim to build a shared vocabulary for the indicator–institution link and to support the emerging Climate Resilience and Sustainability subdivision as a durable interdisciplinary platform.