Call for Book Chapters

Call for Book Chapters

Climate Change, Disaster Risk and Behavioural Adaptation: Perceptions, Everyday Practices, Governance and Digital Transformations

Edited by

Cristina Casareale
(Save the Children Italia, Italy)

Alfredo Reder

(CMCC Foundation, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy)

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to invite submissions for book chapters in the “Geographies of the Anthropocene” series. This volume (9, n. 2, 2026), titled “Climate Change, Disaster Risk and Behavioural Adaptation: Perceptions, Everyday Practices, Governance and Digital Transformations” (Language: English), will be edited by Cristina Casareale (Save the Children, Italy) and Alfredo Reder (CMCC Foundation, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy).

Scope

Climate change is not only a biophysical process but also a profound social, cultural, territorial and behavioural challenge. As climate impacts intensify across Europe and beyond, responses increasingly unfold at the intersection between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, short-term risk management and preparedness logics meet longer-term processes of social and territorial transformation.

Adaptation increasingly depends on how individuals, communities, institutions and territories perceive risks, interpret uncertainty, mobilise emotions, reorganise everyday practices, and participate in collective transformation. In this context, behavioural adaptation is a crucial lens for understanding the Anthropocene: it connects climate awareness with lived experience, individual and collective agency, socio-environmental vulnerability, risk reduction strategies, governance innovation, and the emergence of new digital and artificial intelligence-based tools for adaptive decision-making.

This volume invites contributions that explore the relationships between climate change, behavioural adaptation and territorial transformation from interdisciplinary and critical perspectives. We welcome theoretical, empirical, methodological and policy-oriented chapters addressing how people and institutions respond to climate risks, both through immediate risk reduction practices and longer-term adaptive strategies, how adaptation practices are shaped by perceptions, emotions, values, inequalities and place-based knowledge, and how governance systems can support more inclusive, just and effective climate resilience and risk reduction pathways.

Particular attention will be given to contributions examining the role of citizens, communities and local authorities in adaptation processes; the behavioural and cultural dimensions of resilience; the everyday practices through which adaptation is negotiated, resisted or embedded; how these practices contribute simultaneously to risk preparedness, response and long-term adaptation; and the ways in which digital technologies, artificial intelligence, participatory platforms, climate services and decision-support systems are transforming adaptive governance. The volume also seeks to critically assess the opportunities and risks associated with technological innovation, including issues of trust, accessibility, accountability, transparency and socio-spatial justice.

By bringing together geography, environmental studies, climate adaptation research, social sciences, urban and regional studies, governance studies and digital transformation perspectives, the volume aims to advance the debate on how societies learn, adapt and transform under climate change. It will contribute to a deeper understanding of behavioural adaptation as a situated, relational and multi-scalar process, shaped by the interaction between perceptions, emotions, knowledge systems, institutions, technologies and territories across both emergency and preparedness-oriented and long-term transformative frameworks.

Indicative topics include, but are not limited to:

Perceptions, emotions and climate awareness in relation to climate risks and hazards;
behavioural adaptation, resilience and everyday practices in risk preparedness and long-term adaptation;
climate risk communication, trust and public engagement across preparedness, response and adaptation processes;
vulnerability, inequality, justice and adaptive capacity in both risk reduction and adaptation contexts;
community-based, youth-centered, citizen-led and all-of-society approaches to risk reduction and adaptation;
governance, territories and socio-environmental transformation;
local, regional and multi-level risk reduction and adaptation pathways;
digital technologies, artificial intelligence and adaptive governance for risk assessment, preparedness and long-term adaptation;
climate services, decision-support tools and participatory platforms;
transformative adaptation, social learning and institutional change and their link with disaster risk reduction.

References

Adger, W., Barnett, J., Brown, K., … & O’Brien, K. (2012) Cultural dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation. Nature Clim Change 3, 112–117. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1666
Berrang-Ford, L., Siders, A. R., Lesnikowski, A., Fischer, A. P., Callaghan, M. W., Haddaway, N. R., … & Abu, T. Z. (2021). A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change. Nature Climate Change, 11, 989–1000. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01170-y
Cox, S. (2024). Unbounding the future: new directions for climate‐changed geographies. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 49(4), e12720. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12720
European Commission. (2021). Forging a climate-resilient Europe – The new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change. COM(2021) 82 final.
European Environment Agency. (2024). European Climate Risk Assessment. EEA Report 01/2024. Publications Office of the European Union. https://doi.org/10.2800/204249
Evans, J. P. (2011). Resilience, ecology and adaptation in the experimental city. Transactions of the institute of British Geographers, 36(2), 223-237. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2010.00420.x
Fedele, G., Donatti, C. I., Harvey, C. A., Hannah, L., & Hole, D. G. (2019). Transformative adaptation to climate change for sustainable social-ecological systems. Environmental Science & Policy, 101, 116–125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.07.001
Haarsaker, C. (2020) Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework: Guidance Note on Using Climate and Disaster Risk Management to Help Build Resilient Societies (Draft); Guidance Note; United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction: Geneva, Switzerland. Available online: https://www.undrr.org/publication/integrating-disaster-risk-reduction-and-climate-change-adaptation-un-sustainable
Haasnoot, M., Kwakkel, J. H., Walker, W. E., & ter Maat, J. (2013). Dynamic adaptive policy pathways: A method for crafting robust decisions for a deeply uncertain world. Global Environmental Change, 23(2), 485–498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.12.006
IPCC. (2022): Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, M. Tignor, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Löschke, V. Möller, A. Okem, B. Rama (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA, 3056 pp., doi:10.1017/9781009325844.
Majlingova, A., & Kádár, T. S. (2025). From risk to resilience: Integrating climate adaptation and disaster reduction in the pursuit of sustainable development. Sustainability, 17(12), 5447. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17125447
Moser, S. C., & Ekstrom, J. A. (2010). A framework to diagnose barriers to climate change adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(51), 22026–22031. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1007887107
Nielsen, K. S., Cologna, V., Bauer, J. M., Berger, S., Brick, C., Dietz, T., … & Wolske, K. S. (2024). Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation. Nature Climate Change, 14(4), 322-330. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-01951-1
Palutikof, J. P., Street, R. B., & Gardiner, E. P. (2019). Decision support platforms for climate change adaptation: an overview and introduction. Climatic Change, 153(4), 459-476. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02445-2
Reichstein, M., Benson, V., Blunk, J., Camps-Valls, G., Creutzig, F., Fearnley, C. J., … & Weldemariam, K. (2025). Early warning of complex climate risk with integrated artificial intelligence. Nature Communications, 16(1), 2564. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57640-w
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Important dates:

July 31, 2026: Book Chapter Proposal deadline

August 31, 2026: Acceptance/Rejection Notification

October 31, 2026: Full Chapter Submission

November 30, 2026: Review notification

December 15, 2026: Final version chapter submission

December 2026: Final e-book version available

Submission Procedure:

Interested authors should submit their proposals (max 500 words) by July 31, 2026, explaining the main topic and the objectives of the chapter.

The manuscript proposals (Word or PDF) must be sent to the following address: geographiesofanthropocene@gmail.com

Acceptance/Rejection notification will be sent to the authors by August 31, 2026. After the acceptance notification, authors should submit full chapters by October 31, 2026 formatting their manuscripts following the Editor’s guidelines.

The manuscript word count must be between 4500 – 6000 words. This includes tables, illustrations, references, etc. All submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind manner.

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Rethinking the Geography of Risk: Theories, Practices, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited by

Antonella Pietta

(Department of Economics and Management, University of Brescia, Italy)

Fabio Fatichenti

(Department of Humanities, Ancient and Modern Languages, Literature and Cultures, University of Perugia, Italy)

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that a Call for Book Chapters is now open for the volume titled “Rethinking the Geography of Risk: Theories, Practices, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” (Language: English), which will be published as part of the Geographies of the Anthropocene book series (Vol. 9, no. 1, 2026).

The volume is edited by Fabio Fatichenti (Department of Humanities, Ancient and Modern Languages, Literature and Cultures, University of Perugia, Italy) and Antonella Pietta (Department of Economics and Management, University of Brescia, Italy).

Proposal deadline: November 30, 2025

Scope:

In the 1940s, pioneering studies began to focus on the socioeconomic effects of natural hazards, introducing the concept of social vulnerability (White & Hass, 1975; Hewitt & Burton, 1971; Burton & Kates, 1978). In the 1970s, the French School of Geography introduced a new approach known as the “geography of risk,” which redefined the analysis of extreme natural phenomena by placing greater emphasis on the role of human factors (Tricart, 1978; Veyret & Reghezza, 2005; Vogt & Vogt, 1978; Flageollet, 1988; Escourrou, 1986; Pagney, 1994; Lamarre, 1997; Vigneau, 2005; Bravard, 2000).

This field of study explores the socioeconomic and institutional dimensions of risk, highlighting their relationship with the effects of natural events that, in vulnerable contexts, evolve into disasters. The geography of risk is traditionally addressed in academia through a multidisciplinary approach that combines the perspective of physical geography, which focuses on the material aspects of natural phenomena, with that of human geography, which examines their social and cultural implications.

This integrated approach considers risk as a complex phenomenon rooted in territorial ecosystems and socio-environmental vulnerability.

In the 1990s, the geography of risk was further enriched through dialogue with other disciplines, such as sociology and psychology, deepening the study of perceptions, cultural representations, and territorial dynamics.

In the early twenty-first century, the geography of risk underwent significant conceptual and methodological advancements. The increasing visibility of climate change impacts has intensified academic and institutional attention toward territories characterized by latent or cumulative risks (Marincioni, 2007; Bagliani, Pietta & Bonati, 2019; De Pascale, 2022; Gioia, 2023; Kelman, 2020, 2022; Greenberg & Schneider, 2025; Pérez-Morales et al., 2025). Recent research has progressively focused on urban and peri-urban contexts, where environmental pressures, social inequalities, and governance challenges intersect (Marchetti et al., 2020; Colocci, 2024; Gioia & Guadagno, 2024; Scolobig & Balsiger, 2024).

Growing awareness of socio-environmental risks within communities has underscored the need for collaborative and adaptive forms of risk governance involving scholars, policymakers, and civil society. These developments have consolidated the geography of risk as a mature interdisciplinary domain that examines the dynamic interrelations among environmental transformations, social vulnerability, and territorial resilience (De Pascale & Mercatanti, 2024; Rufat et al., 2025).

This volume seeks to gather theoretical and practical insights into the multiple dimensions of risk, understood as a dynamic intersection of environmental, social, cultural, and technological factors. We invite contributions that explore empirical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives on how risks are perceived, represented, and managed across different spatial and temporal scales.

The aim is to foster a broad interdisciplinary dialogue that connects approaches from physical, human, and economic geography with inputs from the social sciences, planning, environmental studies, and digital innovation. By encouraging diverse analytical frameworks and case studies, the volume intends to provide a synthetic overview of current challenges and future perspectives in the geography of risk.

Suggested topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Conceptual frameworks

The Anthropocene and new geographies of risk
Human–environment relationships and territorial co-evolution
Inequality, marginalization, resilience, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity
Barriers and limits (ecological, socioeconomic, technological, etc.)
Justice, environmental justice, climate justice, equity, and ethics

Types of risks

Hydrogeological, seismic, volcanic, climatic, etc.
Technological and industrial (pollution, accidents, critical infrastructure)
Health and epidemiological
Socio-political aspects and territorial conflicts

Perceptions and representations

Risk perception and awareness
Media, cultural, and artistic narratives
Collective memories, fears, and territorial imagery
From awareness to action

Governance and management

Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
Mitigation policies
Adaptation policies
Multi-risk approach
Ecological transition
Planning and territorial management
Regulatory, institutional, and policy instruments

Methods and tools

Cartography, GIS, remote sensing, open data
Modelling, scenarios, and simulations
Participatory approaches and citizen science
Risk education and communication
Gamification

Emerging perspectives and research horizons

Interconnected and systemic risks (climate change, health, energy, food, water)
Technological innovations (AI, big data, digital twin) for forecasting and monitoring
Socio-ecological transition and new vulnerabilities
Global risks and territorial interdependencies

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Bagliani, M., Pietta, A., & Bonati, S. (2019). Il cambiamento climatico in prospettiva geografica: Aspetti fisici, impatti, politiche. Bologna: Il Mulino.

Bartolini, A., & De Santis, G. (2022). Umbria fragile tra terremoti e ricostruzioni: Il caso della Valnerina. Perugia: Morlacchi.

Carpenter, S., Walker, B., Anderies, J. M., & Abel, N. (2001). From metaphor to measurement: Resilience of what to what? Ecosystems, 4(8), 765–781.

Celata, F., & Gioia, E. (2024). Resist or retreat? Beach erosion and the climate crisis in Italy: Scenarios, impacts and challenges. Applied Geography, 169, 103335.

Charpentier, Ph., & Fatichenti, F. (2023). Pour une éducation géographique à l’Anthropocène à l’école primaire en France et en Italie: Situation actuelle, critique et perspectives. L’Information Géographique, 87(1), 93–113. Paris: Armand Colin.

Cisternas, P. C., Cifuentes, L. A., Bronfman, N. C., Repetto, P. B., & Castañeda, J. V. (2024). Household preparedness for multi-natural hazards in coastal communities. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 109, 104584.

Colocci, A. (2024). An interconnected path for social-ecological systems: Decoding human-nature interactions to foster a resilient and sustainable development. Milano: FrancoAngeli.

Colocci, A., Pietta, A., & Bagliani, M. (2025). Exploring the formal development of regional policies and their potential to drive local change: Insights on climate change adaptation in Italy. The Geographical Journal, 191, e12614.

Cutter, S. L., Barnes, L., Berry, M., Burton, C., Evans, E., Tate, E., & Webb, J. (2008). A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters. Global Environmental Change, 18(4), 598–606.

Cutter, S. L., Burton, C. G., & Emrich, C. T. (2010). Disaster resilience indicators for benchmarking baseline conditions. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 7(1).

Cutter, S. L., Ash, K. D., & Emrich, C. T. (2014). The geographies of community disaster resilience. Global Environmental Change, 29, 65–77.

De Pascale, F. (2022). Geografie del rischio e della vulnerabilità: Approcci teorici ed esperienze didattiche a confronto. Firenze: Pontecorboli (Collana Atlante).

De Pascale, F., & Dattilo, V. (2021). The geoethical semiosis of the Anthropocene: The Peircean triad for a reconceptualization of the relationship between human beings and the environment. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 111(3), 647–654.

De Pascale, F., & Mercatanti, L. (2024). Integrated geographies of risk, natural hazards and sustainability. Sustainability. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/sustai_naturalhazards

Dhar, T., Bornstein, L., Lizarralde, G., & Nazimuddin, S. M. (2023). Risk perception: A lens for understanding adaptive behaviour in the age of climate change? Narratives from the Global South. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 95, 103886.

Folke, C., Carpenter, S. R., Walker, B., Scheffer, M., Chapin, T., & Rockström, J. (2010). Resilience thinking: Integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability. Ecology and Society, 15(4), 20.

Forino, G., Calandra, D., & Bonati, S. (Eds.). (2018). Governance of risk, hazards and disasters: Trends in theory and practice. London: Routledge.

Gioia, E. (2023). Le prospettive geografiche della riduzione del rischio disastri: Comunità, governance, sostenibilità ambientale e risorse economiche. Rende: Il Sileno Edizioni (Geographies of Anthropocene).

Gioia, E., Casareale, C., Colocci, A., & Marincioni, F. (2021). Citizens’ perception of geohazards in Veneto Region (NE Italy) in the context of climate change. Geosciences, 11(10), 424. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11100424

Gioia, E., Colocci, A., Casareale, C., Marchetti, N., & Marincioni, F. (2022). The role of the socio-economic context in the spread of the first wave of COVID-19 in the Marche Region (central Italy). International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 82, 103324.

Gioia, E., & Guadagno, E. (2024). Perception of climate change impacts, urbanization, and coastal planning in the Gaeta Gulf (central Tyrrhenian Sea): A multidimensional approach. AIMS Geosciences, 10(1), 80–106.

Greenberg, M. R., & Schneider, D. (2025). Coal mines and multi-faceted risks in the United States: On a path toward a sustainable future or emptying out? Sustainability, 17, 1658. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17041658

Guadagno, L., & Guadagno, E. (2021). Migration, housing, and disaster: Risk reduction and creation in Southern Italy’s Apennines. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 61, 102305.

Kelman, I. (2020). Disaster by choice: How our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kelman, I. (2022). Disaster by choice: Why disasters are not natural [Katastrophen hausgemacht: Wieso Katastrophen nicht natürlich sind]. Journal of Torrent, Avalanche, Landslide and Rock Fall Engineering / Zeitschrift für Wildbach-, Lawinen-, Erosions- und Steinschlagschutz, 190, 24–29.

Lechowska, E. (2018). What determines flood risk perception? A review of factors of flood risk perception and relations between its basic elements. Natural Hazards, 94(3), 1341–1366.

Lelow, G., & Marincioni, F. (2025). The European Emergency Number 112: Exploring the potential of crowd-sourced information for emergency management. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 120(2), 105376.

Marchetti, N., Marconi, M., Colocci, A., Gatto, B., Principi, P., & Marincioni, F. (2020). Analisi del rischio e pianificazione del territorio locale: Il caso studio del Comune di Pescara. In A. Gallia (Ed.), Territorio: rischio/risorsa (pp. 165–184). Roma: Laboratorio geocartografico “Giuseppe Caraci”, Dalla mappa al GIS, N. 6.

Marincioni, F. (2007). Information technologies and the sharing of disaster knowledge: The critical role of professional culture. Disasters, 31(4), 459–476.

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Pérez-Morales, A., Gil-Guirado, S., & Cantos, J. O. (2025). Geography matters: Geographically based flood studies in Spain between 1990 and 2023—A bibliometric/hermeneutical analysis. Natural Hazards, 121, 19937–19966. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-025-07561-0

Räsänen, A., Lein, H., Bird, D., & Setten, G. (2020). Conceptualizing community in disaster risk management. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 45, 101485.

Rufat, S., Fekete, A., & Enderlin, E. (2025). Addressing the social vulnerability gap in disaster risk perception. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 129, 105789. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105789

Scolobig, A., & Balsiger, J. (2024). Emerging trends in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation higher education. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 105, 104383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104383

Sharifi, A. (2016). A critical review of selected tools for assessing community resilience. Ecological Indicators, 69, 629–647.

Sharifi, A., & Yamagata, Y. (2016). On the suitability of assessment tools for guiding communities towards disaster resilience. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 18, 115–124.

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Important dates:

November 30, 2025: Book Chapter Proposal deadline
December 15, 2025: Acceptance/Rejection Notification
February 15, 2026: Full Chapter Submission
March 31, 2026: Review Notification
April 30, 2026: Final Version Chapter Submission
May 2026: Final e-book version available

Submission Procedure:

Interested authors should submit their proposals (max 500 words) by November 30, 2025, explaining the main topic and the objectives of the chapter.

The manuscript proposals (Word) must be sent to the following address: geographiesofanthropocene@gmail.com.

Acceptance/Rejection notification will be sent to the authors by December 15, 2025. After the acceptance notification, authors should submit full accepted chapters by February 15, 2026 formatting their manuscripts following the Editor’s guidelines. The manuscript word count must be between 4500 – 6000 words. This includes tables, illustrations, references, etc. All submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind manner.

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