Disasters caused by natural hazards can lead to long-lasting disruptions across economic, social and ecological systems. Climate change and systemic risks can intensify these impacts through compound, concurrent and cascading events. Floods, wildfires, heatwaves, storms and droughts result from interactions between physical, social, human and economic drivers, challenging approaches that assess hazards in isolation. Their impacts are also unevenly distributed: some households may face displacement, debt or poorer health for years, while others recover much faster.

Strengthening resilience is therefore central to disaster risk reduction and recovery. Yet limited empirical evidence and the diversity of resilience definitions, measures and applications make it difficult to understand how resilience develops and for whom. This calls for frameworks and methods that capture resilience mechanisms across interconnected systems, while also examining how resilience is experienced by households, communities and different social groups.

This session seeks to advance an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective on systemic resilience to multi-hazards. We welcome contributions on single, compound and cascading hazards, particularly where they improve understanding of resilience mechanisms, drivers and strategies.

Topics include:
• Conceptual and analytical approaches for assessing, measuring and modelling resilience, including process- and outcome-based methods.
• Systemic resilience mechanisms linking hazards, infrastructure, ecosystems, institutions and outcomes for people.
• Human and demographic dimensions, including differences in exposure, coping and recovery; displacement and mobility; health, wellbeing and livelihoods; social protection and informal support.
• Strategies and interventions for building resilience, including early warning systems, nature-based solutions, infrastructure, digital technologies, AI and adaptive planning.
• Justice and equity, including local knowledge, historical and cultural perspectives and climate-resilient development.
• Drivers, constraints and enabling conditions for multi-hazard resilience.
• Comparative and longitudinal studies across regions and scales.
• Stakeholder engagement through citizen science, participatory methods, co-production and research-practice partnerships.

We encourage local, regional and global contributions from interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.