<p>This systematic review synthesizes empirical evidence on the nature and significance of stakeholder contributions in cascading hazards research. Stakeholder contributions do not merely supplement technical knowledge. They actively reshape how cascading risks are identified, managed, and governed, while revealing dimensions of cascading impact that fall outside the spatial and temporal windows of formal assessment. These contributions organize around three mutually constitutive dimensions: governance, experience, and awareness. Governance shapes what knowledge is recognized and acted upon. Experience generates empirical evidence about how cascading hazards unfold across time and space. Awareness mediates how that evidence is translated into shared understanding and behavioral response. These dimensions provide a conceptual foundation for adapting existing resilience frameworks to cascading hazard contexts. Resilience depends on whether experiential signals are captured, translated into shared understanding through communication and learning, and incorporated into governance systems capable of adapting across interconnected hazard sequences. Experience, in particular, represents a necessary dimension that many existing resilience frameworks rarely accommodate as an independent component, yet one that is essential for capturing the dynamic, compounding nature of cascading impacts. This reframes cascading hazards research away from asking whether hazards interact and toward examining how societies perceive, communicate, and manage those interactions across the spatial and temporal scales that cascading sequences demand.</p>