About RiskKAN
Our group addresses systemic emergent and cascading risks under global and societal change while building knowledge on disaster risk reduction and providing an open platform to scientists across disciplines.
Upcoming events
Working Group: Climate Change, Disasters, Health and Well-being
This group meets once every two months online and consists of anyone interested in / working on bridging the topics of disasters, diseases and health. Feel free to forward this meeting invite to anyone who you think may be interested!
Next meeting:
5th of November 2025
16.00-17.00 CET
During this meeting there will be two presentations, one of the team of Nivedita Sairam and one of Kelley de Polt.
Email Marleen de Ruiter (m.c.de.ruiter@vu.nl) to get a link to the meeting!
For a more detailed overview. Click here to see all upcoming and past conferences, seminars, and workshops.
Past events
Systemic Risks Conference and Workshop
Date: 24-26 September 2025
Existing risk assessments for individual climate-related hazards are not able to capture systemic risks. Common methods, data and tools we use today to assess and respond to risks are insufficient to effectively address the dynamic reality of interconnected risks. This workshop aimed to address current challenges of systemic risks related to climate extremes and to scope ways forward to tackle those in science and practice. This workshop brought together different disciplines to foster systemic thinking and systemic approaches to advance our knowledge and cross-sectoral opportunities related to systemic risks and climate extremes, to enable the development of climate adaptation and mitigation strategies that take the complexities of the real world into account.
Click here to read more about the Systemic Risk Conference and Workshop!
RiskKAN “Warning and Preparedness for a Riskier World” Webinar
Date: 17 September 2025
As societies face increasingly complex and compounding risks, food systems around the world are becoming more vulnerable. This webinar shared key insights from the Citi Foundation-funded project “Early Warning, Early Action for Cascading Risks to Food Security (EWAC)”, led by Chatham House in collaboration with Practical Action.
Working Groups
RiskKAN is comprised of various working groups spanning a wide range of topics and contributing to implementation of the objectives of RiskKAN.
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RiskKAN is part of a Joint Initiative
We are a proud part of a large network of key stakeholders
The Future Earth initiative is a global network of scientists and innovators working towards a sustainable future through developing a deeper understanding of Earth systems and human dynamics across disciplines.
The Integrated Research on Disaster Risk is an international scientific progamme working to mobilize science for the reduction of all kinds of disaster risk through the integration of risk science with climate change adaptation, mitigation, and sustainable development.
The World Weather Research Program works to promote research to improve weather prediction and its impacts on society through improvements in science and operational predictions driven by international scientific cooperation.
The World Climate Research Programme is an international multi-disciplinary research initiative working on advancing human understanding of multi-scale dynamic interactions between natural and social systems that affect our planets climate.
The Knowledge Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events is financially supported by Future Earth.