Workshop "Resilient Horizons: Place, Governance, and Organizational Adaptation in the Age of Climate Disruption" Florence, December 4-5, 2025

This international research workshop aims to explore innovative, mixed-method approaches to climate impact assessment, with a focus on how environmental disruptions affect socio-ecological systems and challenge organizational sustainability. Bringing together scholars, practitioners, and policymakers from a variety of disciplines, the workshop will shed light on how businesses, communities, and institutions respond to climate-related crises, examining frameworks for adaptive strategies, assess best practices, and explore the role of managerial decision-making in building long-term resilience. Its ultimate goal is to provide an opportunity to spread and disseminate the most recent research on these issues.

The selection of contributions will favor junior researchers.

In particular, the call for papers includes the following topics (but is not limited to):

•  Individual and organizational resilience (e.g. antecedents, practices, drawbacks, etc.)
• Decision making process in times of crises
• Organizational adaptation and/or strategies to address environmental disruptions/severe crises
• Organizational design interventions to address climate change or further global changes
• The challenges and tensions emerging in organizations dealing with crises
• The role of inter-organizational relationships in supporting/inhibiting organization’s ability to achieve their own sustainability
• Spatial modeling of climate risks and their implications for regional adaptation strategies
• Place-based approaches to institutional resilience: the role of governance quality and stakeholder engagement in climate adaptation
• Assessment of socio-economic impacts from slow-onset climate events (e.g., sea-level rise, salinization, geo-hazard events etc.) and implications for land use and planning
• The interplay between energy transition infrastructures and territorial resilience: contradictions and synergies

Submission

Contributions should be submitted in the form of extended abstracts (max 2,000 words) only using this form (please note that contributions sent via other means, e.g. email address, won’t be taken into consideration), according to the following format:

●      Font: 12 pt, Arial or Times New Roman

●      Margin left/right: 2.5 cm

●      Line spacing: 1.5

●      Citation of references: APA style

●      The first page of the submission must contain authors’ names and family names, their affiliations, their email address, and the corresponding author

Please note that only one paper per presenter is allowed.

Important dates

●        September 15, 2025: deadline for abstract submission

●        September 30, 2025: notification of acceptance

●        October 15, 2025: confirmation of participation in the workshop and in the social activities

●        December 4-5, 2025: workshop dates