The Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) Group 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. 

Studying systemic risk and resilience research 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.
  • Model-based socio-economic assessment of risk and resilience.
  • Developing and carrying out empirical and process-based resilience measurement for addressing key risks.
  • Understanding policy and governance of risk and resilience in complex-adaptive systems.
  • Generating systemic resilience approaches in relevant local to global socio-ecological systems through co-generating effective and applicable policy options that address equitably risks as well as create developmental co-benefits.

YSSP applications  should be related to at least one of these fields.

More specifically, SYRR is looking for YSSP applicants interested in working on the following topics:   

  • Conceptual, empirical and model-based understanding of the dynamics of risk drivers in the context of the complex, cascading and compound climate risks, such as dynamics of exposure and vulnerability in multi-hazard scenarios (e.g., compound, and cascading disasters) or in high impact climate-related risk scenarios (e.g. floods, wildfires).
  • Research focused on further development and application of the adaptation pathways concept, especially in the context of transformative adaptation and multi-risk environments.
  • We also welcome research on integrating disaster and climate risk analysis into decision-making frameworks, policy design, and governance strategies to bolster resilience and informed responses amidst evolving environmental challenges.
  • Conceptual, empirical and model-based studies of resilience in socio-ecological systems
  • Assessment of limits to climate adaptation and social tipping points using qualitative and quantitative methods.
  • Research on the costs and finance options of climate adaptation and addressing Loss & Damage.
  • Research that explores the integration of stakeholder, citizen, and local knowledge through participatory research approaches for disaster and climate risk management strategies is also welcome.
  • Research on decision-making in the Polycrisis.
  • Modeling co-occurrence of hazards in stochastic systems with dependency in spatial and temporal dimension as well as model identification based on real data knowledge in applied statistical methods for analyzing real data about triggering and cascading effects of multiple hazard events is of advantage.
  • Conduct empirical analysis on the effects of resilience measures on sociodemographic outcomes, with a focus on either local or global perspectives.