Current global systemic changes – whether climatic, societal, or technological – are creating new threats for human societies. These threats and the ways to address them are the subject of extensive analysis and sometimes heated debates around the vulnerabilities of populations and infrastructures, and the resilience and adaptation of societies.
One of the major challenges concerns the ability of societies, groups, or the most vulnerable territories to cope with risks and disasters, in particular to have the means to:
- Prevent, prepare, and protect
- Absorb, mitigate, and adapt
- Restore, recover, and transform.
Addressing these challenges involves tackling complex issues by drawing on different research perspectives and developing new methodologies and innovative tools.
With strong engagement from the humanities and social sciences (HSS), Pillar 1 aims to foster collaborations across disciplines and research fields, to map and analyze current frameworks for the production of knowledge, policies, and practices in risk and disaster management, and to contribute to the development of new cross-cutting concepts and approaches.
Challenges
Challenge 1. Analyze the frameworks for studying and managing risks and disasters (concepts, approaches, methods, and practices) and their social and political effects, from a cross-cutting, diachronic, multi-scale, and multi-stakeholder perspective, in order to contribute to improving or transforming them.
Challenge 2. Contribute to the structuring of a multidisciplinary and multisectoral research community in risk and disaster sciences.
Challenge 3. Build new, more integrated and inclusive risk policies for a more robust and resilient society.
