The major goal of this I RM-SRA-LA meeting is to join the expertise of specialists in all risk-related disciplines to help understanding the risks that affect our communities, including environment-related hazards, technological risks, physicochemical and biological threats, nanoparticles, socioeconomics-derived risks, and the potential and real damage capacity of natural threats. Thus, I RM-SRA-LA convokes experts in prevention, assessment, education, mitigation, communication and management of these risks.