Considerable progress has been made in modelling multi-hazard and systemic climate and natural hazard risk, including the interactions, cascading effects, and feedbacks through which climate-related risks propagate across interconnected systems. However, stronger links are needed between these advances in risk assessment and the emerging discourses and approaches to systemic risk governance. In particular, approaches to governance need to reflect the distinctive characteristics of systemic risk while responding to diverse stakeholder perceptions, knowledge, capacities, and needs.
This interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary session aims to bridge systemic risk assessment, modelling, communication, and governance. We invite presentations and posters addressing three interconnected questions:
1. How can multi-hazard and systemic risks be assessed and communicated in ways that are scientifically robust, decision-relevant, and appropriate to the needs and perceptions of different stakeholders?
2. How do systemic risks propagate across interconnected infrastructure, economic, environmental, and social systems, and how can these dynamics, including cascading impacts, feedbacks, and potential tipping points, be simulated and assessed?
3. What science-based governance frameworks and discourses can translate systemic risk knowledge into effective climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals? In particular, how might systemic risk governance be organised around and combine instrumental, reflective, participatory, and epistemological governance discourses?
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 climate-related systemic risk can inform actionable and legitimate governance responses.
We will actively seek to enhance Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in the composition and conduct of the session.