AI enables an intelligence architecture that links the observation, cognition, and decision layers, leading to anticipatory governance. The greatest contribution of AI lies not in accelerating disaster response but in enabling earlier interventions that prevent losses before hazards translate into disasters.
Coastal risk is no longer about a single hazard. It is about cascading failures across interconnected systems. Across the Indian Ocean and Asia-Pacific, earthquakes, tsunamis, cyclones, sea-level rise, and extreme rainfall are increasingly interacting to create compounding and systemic risks. These is a need to shift toward anticipatory risk governance, powered by: Earth Observation, AI/GeoAI, Digital twins and Impact-based early warning systems. Because resilience is not about stopping the waves. It is about preventing one crisis from triggering many others.