Integrated RIsks MAnagement for more resilient societies at the global changes era (IRIMA)

Between 1980 and 2022, weather- and climate-related extremes caused economic losses of assets estimated at EUR 650 billion in the EU. To face this challenge, increasing with ongoing warming, it seems necessary to stimulate and coordinate the European effort on multidisciplinarity. The proposed approach, as developed in the France 2023 Risks-IRIMA program, is hightly holistic and integrative of knowledge. It aims to largely federate geosciences, climate sciences, engineering, data and digital sciences, as well as human and social sciences. These different disciplines are now heavily involved in these issues, but still work too much in silos and / or, sometimes, without direct interaction with society. We propose here un way to capitalize on available knowledge and develop inter and transdisciplinary methodological approaches, so as to better detect, quantify and anticipate risks, understanding their complexity (extreme events, multiple risks), and unsteady, coupling and cascading effects, multi-scale dynamics, taking better account of human and socio-economic vulnerabilities, etc.) It will also be a question of making better use of scientific data and citizen knowledge, and of better valuing new technologies, particularly those of information, by consolidating data acquisition and assimilation / cascading effect modeling / decision support / policy implementation for crisis management, citizen protection and anticipation of future risks related to climate change and anthropization. Through this renewed effort, research on risks should strongly contribute to the sustainable transformation of society: societal well-being, better preparedness, adaptation and resilience in the face of risks, and strengthen social, technical and economic capabilities in a world shaped by global change.