Contemporary socio-ecological-technological systems are non-ergodic: their future trajectories aren’t just probabilistic echoes of the past but are continuously reshaped by evolving causal structures, emergent feedbacks, and path-dependent thresholds. Risk science thus faces epistemological challenges that can contribute to spawning maladaptive policies, unforeseen trade-offs, and cascading failures.

This two-day workshop convenes complexity theorists, risk and resilience researchers, social scientists, and modelling experts as a concerted push to move beyond rather static risk management toward adaptive resilience frameworks that can effectively respond to and support action in continuously shifting risk landscapes. This event is part of a series of international gatherings attempting to cohere meaningful coalitions of researchers toward these grand challenges, and particular emphasis will be placed on identifying how projects that emerge from this workshop connect to the existing momentum and community.

Upcoming Events

Bali, Indonesia

IIASA at IDRiM 2026 in Bali

Auditorium of the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Change, UNAM

IIASA and partners launch collaboration for cleaner air in Mexico City

Laxenburg, Austria

Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW) Austria

Royal Belgian institute of Natural Sciences, Rue Vautier 29, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

The Final Event of NaturaConnect: Pathways to a Trans-European Nature Network

Barcelona, Spain

Open Earth Monitor Final Workshop 2026

Residence Palace, Brussels, Belgium

Final LAMASUS Conference

Barcelona, Spain

ENFORCE Annual Project Meeting

Hangzhou, China

A shared agenda for population ageing

Beijing, China

Overshoot Conference 2026

IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria

GAINS Model Workshop