Proposed Title of Special Collection: Climate Risk and Adaptation
Published 09 May, 2026
Introduction:
Earth has recently reached its first climate "tipping point" due to global warming. As climate change risks to social-ecosystems can be pervasive and profound, exisiting scenario-based climate projections are insufficient for understanding climate change impacts and effective decision-making. There is a clear and urgent need to advance both scientific research and policy practice toward impact-based prediction, risk-based warning, and resilience-based adaptation. Addressing this agenda requires moving beyond a purely technical or policy-oriented understanding of climate adaptation and recognizing it as a culturally mediated process, in which perception, narrative, and media practices play a constitutive role in shaping how societies interpret climate risks and translate them into adaptive responses.
This Special Collection aims to consolidate the latest advanced technologies and knowledge from natural and human systems to explore climate change risk and adaptation approaches to social-ecosystems, including food security, water resources, terrestrial ecosystems, critical infrastructure and human health. This effort will provide a deeper understanding of climate risk and adaptation and serve as a valuable reference for global regions.
Topics for this call for papers include but are not restricted to:
- Extreme weather and climate events
- Representative key risks to social-ecosystem
- Climate risk assessment
- Risk-based warning
- Resilience-based adaptation
- Climate risks and city
- Cultural representation and intervention of climate change
- Artistic translation of climate change
Lead Organizer:
Prof. Lianchun Song
State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management, National Climate Center, CMA, China.
Email: songlc@cma.gov.cn
Co-Organizer:
- Prof. Linwang Yuan
State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management, Nanjing Normal University, China.
Email: 09142@njnu.edu.cn
- Prof. Longhui Li
State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management, Nanjing Normal University, China.
Email: Longhui.Li@njnu.edu.cn
- Prof. Zhenyu Han
State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management, National Climate Center, CMA, China.
Email: songlc@cma.gov.cn
Submission instructions:
Authors are encouraged to carefully review the Guide for Authors of Advances in Climate Change Research before preparing their manuscripts. All submissions must be made through the journal's online submission platform and select [VSI- ClimateRisk&Adaptation].
