Workshop report—Vulnerability in multi-hazard risks: Addressing its complexity and dynamics

Santos, A.Pe., De Angeli, S., Hanf, F.S., Charlotta, M., Nicole, M., Benson, V., Marleen Carolijn, R., Dunant, A., Terzi, S., Schweizer, P.-J., Nunes Carvalho, T.M., Madruga de Brito, M., De Polt, K., Šakić Trogrlić, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6627-873X, & van den Homberg, M. (2026). Workshop report—Vulnerability in multi-hazard risks: Addressing its complexity and dynamics. iScience 29 (4) e115250. 10.1016/j.isci.2026.115250.

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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.

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