Multi-risk events, intensified by climate change, environmental degradation and increasing human pressures, pose growing challenges to societies and ecosystems worldwide. The interaction between climate and social-environmental hazards, exposure and vulnerability can amplify impacts on food and water security, infrastructure, ecosystems, livelihoods and socio-economic development. While substantial advances have been made in understanding and modelling multi-risk events, applications remain relatively limited. Multi-risk approaches remain only limitedly integrated into disaster risk management, which continues to be largely organized around individual hazards, sectors and institutional mandates, limiting the ability to address interconnected and systemic risks.
This session aims to bridge science, policy and practice by exploring how multi-risk knowledge can be mainstreamed into disaster risk management policies, planning processes and decision-making. We invite studies that explore how multi-risk concepts, methods, tools and evidence can inform disaster risk management across the cycle, from mitigation and preparedness to response and recovery. We particularly welcome contributions that explore the usability and uptake of multi-risk research in practice, as well as challenges and enabling conditions that shape its implementation.
Contributions may address, but are not limited to:
● Real-world applications, evaluations and lessons learned from integrating multi-risk knowledge into disaster risk management;
● Development, evaluation and application of multi-risk early warning and early-action systems and preparedness strategies;
● Community-driven and participatory approaches to multi-risk disaster risk reduction and resilience building;
● Translation of multi-risk assessments, indicators, models and scenarios into actionable policies, plans and decisions;
● Risk awareness and communication approaches for making multi-risk information understandable and actionable beyond scientific communities;
● Integration of disaster risk reduction, adaptation, humanitarian action and development planning;
● Multi-risk-informed priority-setting, resource allocation and risk financing;
● Monitoring and evaluation approaches for assessing the effectiveness and outcomes of multi-risk approaches/systems in disaster risk management.