Disasters caused by natural hazards can have long-lasting impacts on economic, social, and ecological systems. These challenges are increasingly complex in a world facing multiple, interconnected, and recurring hazards. Decisions made during disaster response and recovery can redirect resources and attention away from long-term risk reduction, while recovery itself can provide opportunities to reduce future risk and strengthen resilience. Recovery processes can also create opportunities for transformative change, enabling a shift towards more sustainable, low-carbon, and equitable development pathways.

Understanding how recovery and resilience develop over time, and how they can be effectively supported, is therefore important. Yet definitions, assessment approaches, and applications vary widely across disciplines and contexts, making it difficult to compare and understand recovery and resilience across systems, scales, and time, and to identify effective actions and investments to support long-term resilience.

This session focuses on disaster recovery and longer-term resilience building, and how these processes can be better understood, assessed, and supported in science and practice. We welcome research on individual hazards as well as multi-hazard, compound, and consecutive events, and studies addressing recovery and resilience across spatial and temporal scales. The session brings together methodological advances, empirical evidence, and practical experiences to improve our ability to adapt to and recover from disasters while advancing long-term sustainability goals.

We encourage contributions on topics including:
- empirical analyses of disaster recovery and resilience, and their dynamics over time;
- methods, indicators, and frameworks for assessing recovery and resilience;
- links between recovery, disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, and resilience building;
- resilience and recovery in multi-hazard, compound, or consecutive disaster contexts;
- adaptation synergies and trade-offs in resilience-building and risk-reduction actions, including implications for long- term sustainability;
- decision-making and prioritisation of resilience-building investments and actions;
- practical applications, case studies, and lessons from science–practice collaboration.
- build back better and transformative recovery: opportunities and barriers to align recovery and resilience building with sustainable development goals.