Research brief: MYRIAD-EU research agenda: towards disaster risk management pathways in multi-(hazard-)risk assessment

Recent decades have seen a move from managing hazards to managing risks. However, the majority of natural-hazard risk research still focuses on single hazards. Internationally, there are increasing calls for more attention on multi-hazard and multi-risks. Within the European Union (EU), the concepts of multi-(hazard)-risk assessment and management have taken centre stage in recent years. It presents several challenges for multi-(hazard-)risk management as outlined in several research projects. It then sets out the MYRIAD-EU team’s research agenda for addressing these challenges. We argue for an approach that addresses multi-(hazard-)risk management through the lens of sustainability challenges that cut across sectors, regions, and hazards. In this approach, the starting point is a specific sustainability challenge, rather than an individual hazard or sector, and trade-offs and synergies are examined across sectors, regions, and hazards. We argue for in-depth case studies in which various approaches for multi-(hazard-)risk management are co-developed and tested in practice. This agenda is guiding the work that is being carried out within the MYRIAD-EU project.