Workshop report—Vulnerability in multi-hazard risks: Addressing its complexity and dynamics
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: In November 2025, an interdisciplinary group of vulnerability researchers met in Munich and identified three challenge-opportunity clusters: first, overcoming epistemological divides to enable meaningful interdisciplinary integration. Second, the interoperability of data, methods, and evidence can strengthen robustness and policy relevance. Third, vulnerability assessments must adopt fit-for-purpose levels of complexity that preserve local context while enabling cross-scalar translation. This backstory is a call-to-action to accelerate the transition of the field toward robust, policy-salient, and socially legitimate integrative and interdisciplinary research.
Source: iScience
Authors: Alexandre Pereira Santos, Silvia De Angeli, Franziska Stefanie Hanf, Charlotta Mirbach, Nicole van Maanen, Vitus Benson, Marleen Carolijn de Ruiter, Alexandre Dunant, Stefano Terzi, Pia-Johanna Schweizer, Taís Maria Nunes Carvalho, Mariana Madruga de Brito, Kelley De Polt, Robert Šakić Trogrlić, Marc van den Homberg
Institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux, Université de Lorraine, Universität Hamburg, Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Eurac Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,240
OpenAlex ID: W7138892622