Climate change research has been dominated by narratives of vulnerability and risk often overlooking the significant efforts made by human systems to build and sustain resilience.
This conference addresses the gap by highlighting the achievements, progress, and innovative solutions in climate resilience, emphasizing successful strategies, best practices, and achievable potentials that enable communities, organizations, and governments to thrive amid climate impacts.
The IIASA team is chairing and informing on the following sessions:
Resilience to Multi-Hazards in Time and Space
Extreme weather and disaster events, and cascading hazards are becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change, posing significant risks to communities, ecosystems, and economies. Multi-hazard events—such as the interplay between storms, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, and floods—create complex challenges that require a systemic and adaptive approach to resilience. Despite growing awareness, there remains a gap in understanding, assessing, and strengthening resilience across different spatial and temporal scales.
Theoretical development of climate resilience
As climate resilience gains prominence across disciplines, its conceptual foundations continue to evolve. What does resilience truly mean in different contexts? How can we refine theoretical frameworks to better capture the complexity of climate impacts and adaptation? This session delves into the ongoing development of resilience theory, offering a space for critical reflection, debate, and innovation. We invite contributions that explore novel conceptual approaches, interdisciplinary perspectives, and theoretical advancements in resilience thinking. Topics of interest include the evolution of resilience theory across fields, the integration of social-ecological systems thinking, critiques of dominant frameworks, and emerging methodologies for assessing resilience. Discussions may also address the intersections between resilience and related concepts such as vulnerability, transformation, and sustainability. By bringing together scholars from diverse backgrounds, this session aims to push the boundaries of resilience research, fostering theoretical insights that can inform policy, practice, and future research.
Upcoming Events
Seminar Room 1, Bäckerstraße 13, 1010 Vienna
ANFOS contribution to workshop on the possible effects of nuclear war
NOVA School of Business and Economics (Carcavelos Campus, in Lisbon - Portugal)
Circular Economy Modelling Workshop
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Inaugural Howard Raiffa Lecture: The Ethics of National Security Decisions: Lessons from the Social Sciences
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand