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The relationship between humans and their environment is intricate, multifaceted, and ever-evolving. Geographical landscapes often serve as the backdrop for various risks and hazards that profoundly impact human lives and communities. These risks include floods, earthquakes, desertification, pollution, but also poverty, that forms the backdrop to gentrification processes, and digital risks, which have wide-ranging consequences for urban and natural environments as well as the emerging of a new “social-technosphere”.

In this regard, it is interesting to study risk perception and its representation from an empirical, cartographic but also literary point of view. This is because understanding attitudes towards risk and their representations also allows us to understand the predisposition of individuals to act proactively. This includes, for example, the perception of risks related to climate change, such as rising sea levels, rising temperatures and extreme weather events. It therefore includes the study of individuals' beliefs, emotions and actions in response to climate risks and the factors that influence adherence to mitigating behaviour. Similarly, it is of interest to investigate risk perceptions related to the development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics, and to study concerns related to privacy, cybersecurity, work automation and the social impacts of digi-technologies (voting behaviour, explosion of new forms of anti-Semitism, etc.).

Contributions can be based on empirical studies, theoretical analyses, or literature reviews in the field of geography, urban studies, ecology, social sciences, environmental humanities and other relevant disciplines. Interdisciplinary contributions that explore the relationship between environmental and urban risk from various academic perspectives are also welcome.

Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• The diverse cultural and social perspectives on the perception of environmental and urban risk.
• The use of maps, graphs, images, and other visual tools to represent risk.
• Individual and collective narratives of environmental and urban risk experiences.
• Portrayal of risk in literature, cinema, and arts.
• The impact of gentrification on vulnerable communities and their exposure to risk.
• Risk communication to affected populations and its influence on behavior.
• Political decision-making processes and urban planning in relation to environmental risk.
• Strategies for adaptation and mitigation of environmental and urban risk.
• Perception and representation of geopolitical manipulative risk, as well as health manipulative risk, through the use of digital media.

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