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

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 and Marc van den Homberg
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Alexandre Pereira Santos: LMU - Ludwig Maximilian University [Munich] = Ludwig Maximilians Universität München
Silvia De Angeli: LIEC - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux - INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Franziska Stefanie Hanf: UHH - Universität Hamburg = University of Hamburg, GFZ - German Research Centre for Geosciences - Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam
Charlotta Mirbach: LMU - Ludwig Maximilian University [Munich] = Ludwig Maximilians Universität München
Nicole van Maanen: VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam]
Vitus Benson: MPI-BGC - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Marleen Carolijn de Ruiter: VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam]
Alexandre Dunant: MPI-BGC - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Stefano Terzi: MPI-BGC - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Pia-Johanna Schweizer: Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research
Taís Maria Nunes Carvalho: UFZ - Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Mariana Madruga de Brito: UFZ - Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Kelley de Polt: MPI-BGC - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Robert Šakić Trogrlić: IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis [Laxenburg]
Marc van den Homberg: University of Twente

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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. BeginningsGiven the rising frequency and severity of climate hazards, it becomes ever more urgent to address the complexities of vulnerability while accounting for its dynamics. 1 Indeed, while the impacts of hazards themselves cannot be mitigated entirely, we can reduce the vulnerability of the elements at risk. 2 This is a complex task given the systemic nature of global society, the increasing frequency and intensity of Above image: Framing the three challenge-opportunity clusters.

Date: 2026-04-17
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Published in iScience, inPress, 29 (4), pp.115250. ⟨10.1016/j.isci.2026.115250⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2026.115250

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