Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) aims to assess and support the management of systemic anthropogenic and environmental risks.
The SYRR research group analyses the increasingly systemic socio-ecological risks associated with global and local change, and with policy, practice and civil society co-generates options for building resilience.
Global change through rising physical and social interdependencies is leading to increasingly systemic and existential risks that lead to cascading impacts and potentially intolerable burdens on communities and societies across the world.
SYRR develops and applies agile systems science to address social-ecological risks that are embedded in complex systems and characterised by potentially cascading, irreversible and existential consequences. We identify risk drivers, model network interactions, assess probabilistic outcomes and co-develop stakeholder-driven options with policy, practice and civil society that are applicable across scales. Our approach for addressing existential and systemic risk combines advanced quantitative modeling and qualitative research with empirical assessment and soft systems analysis.
Studying systemic risk and resilience in this context includes:
- Taking a systems approach for understanding and modelling the interconnected drivers of multiple and compound risks across scales.
- Utilizing a network perspective for studying complexity in socio-ecological systems.
- Analysing failure and limits of conventional risk management and adaptation in complex, dynamic and adaptive systems.
- Developing and carrying out empirical and process-based resilience measurement for addressing key risks.
- Generating systemic resilience in relevant local to global socio-ecological systems through co-generating effective and applicable policy options that address risks as well as create developmental co-benefits.
We focus, inter alia, on risk and resilience associated with climate change, disasters, food webs, finance and pandemics. SYRR work builds on activities and experience gained from the previous IIASA programs on Risk and Resilience (RISK) as well as Advanced Systems Analysis (ASA) and Evolution and Ecology (EEP).
Staff
News
![Flooding in Bangladesh](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-03/dreamstime_m_248052834.jpg?itok=MFtHmlsN)
27 March 2024
Rising waters and sinking communities: exploring the scope for transformation and resilience in riverine Bangladesh
![Dreamstime_Flood_Bahrain](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-11/dreamstime_xl_282001112.jpg?itok=hpModxsg)
23 November 2023
Toward resilient recovery after disasters
![CSER Researchers at the IIASA workshop](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-07/20230711_141054.jpg?itok=VPnIVZOD)
14 July 2023
People and Patterns: IIASA-CSER joint consultation on mitigating the global risks
Events
Focus
![Footbridge going of into the distance over calm water](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/dreamstime_m_128381503.jpg?itok=pXDQtyt-)
31 January 2024
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Xuxia Li spent the past year as a guest research scholar at IIASA. She reflects on her experiences at the institute and her research journey to date, which was made possible by the China Scholarship Council.
![Egypt highlighted in red on blue digital planet Earth with lines illustrating a global network.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-12/dreamstime_m_134080889.jpg?itok=bmZKfUgy)
04 December 2023
Empowering global decision makers through impactful engagement with the North Africa Applied Systems Analysis Centre Diploma Program
Several IIASA researchers provided valuable input and presented workshops at the North Africa Applied Systems Analysis Center's Diploma Program earlier this year. IIASA researcher Ali Kharrazi shares his insights from this impactful engagement.
Publications
Pashanejad Silab, E., Kharrazi, A. , Araujo Gutierrez, Z., Robinson, B., Fath, B. , & Parrott, L. (2024). A functional connectivity approach for exploring interactions of multiple ecosystem services in the context of agricultural landscapes in the Canadian prairies. Ecosystem Services 68 e101639. 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101639. Sakic Trogrlic, R., Reiter, K., Ciurean, R.L., Gottardo, S., Torresan, S., Daloz, A., Ma, L., Padrón Fumero, N., Tatman, S., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., de Ruiter, M.C., Schlumberger, J., Harris, R., Garcia-Gonzalez, S., García-Vaquero, M., Arévalo, T., Hernandez-Martin, R., Mendoza-Jimenez, J., Ferrario, D., Geurts, D., Stuparu, D., Tiggeloven, T., Duncan, M., & Ward, P. (2024). Challenges in assessing and managing multi-hazard risks: A European stakeholders perspective. Environmental Science & Policy 157 e103774. 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103774. Yang, Y., Keating, A., & Sourn, C. (2024). Measuring community disaster resilience for sustainable climate change adaptation: Lessons from time‐series findings in rural Cambodia. Disasters e12647. 10.1111/disa.12647. (In Press) Handmer, J., Monson, R., & Schinko, T. (2024). Addressing the Diversity of Loss and Damage in Pacific Island Countries to Foster a Just Transition Towards a Climate-Resilient Future. SSRN Electronic Journal 10.2139/ssrn.4847908. (Submitted) Peichel, C.L., Bolnick, D.I., Brännström, Å., Dieckmann, U. , & Safran, R.J. (2024). Speciation. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology a041735. 10.1101/cshperspect.a041735.