Our collective well-being depends on interconnected socio-ecological systems. In the Anthropocene, these systems increasingly face unanticipated variability in key inputs (i.e., shocks), and nonlinear interactions between shocks across multiple time and spatial scales can undermine system robustness. These shocks include (but are not limited to) extreme weather events, conflict, migration, disease, monetary crises, and technological failure. While planners and scientists have developed concepts such as networked risk and cascading failures to describe interacting shocks, modeling their propagation remains a challenge that cannot be addressed from a single sector or disciplinary perspective. Moreover, effective responses to interacting shocks are challenged not only by computational and predictive abilities, but also in connecting model insights to policy and governance. This session welcomes research that advances our ability to model and inform the governance of interacting shocks in the Anthropocene. We encourage submissions that demonstrate novel interdisciplinary perspectives, modeling approaches, and governance insights.

• SY - Science and Society