Belmont Forum Resilience Call: Vulnerability and Resilience Management for Socio-Environmental Systems in Exposed Territories

The Belmont Forum Resilience call aims to promote transdisciplinary research on managing the vulnerability and resilience of socio-environmental systems in exposed territories. Inspired by the recent Covid-19 pandemic, the call aims to define and promote innovative risk management concepts that take into account global change and the evolution of human-nature interactions in addressing the increase in environmental risks. This must involve the development of risk science in line with sustainability science, the encouragement of knowledge co-production, the provision of information to governments and a focus on vulnerable areas. Research consortia must be transdisciplinary and include researchers from the social sciences/humanities/economics, the natural sciences/physics/engineering, and societal partners using a participatory, co-design, co-development and co-implementation approach. Applications must relate to at least two themes: better assess risks of increasing complexity with global change, pay specific attention to exacerbated vulnerabilities in highly exposed territories, or develop innovative solutions for disaster risk reduction.