The Arctic Institute is pleased to announce that we are accepting abstracts for the 2026 Series on Polar Disaster Risk Reduction and Response.
In this series, we will bring together pieces from the Arctic and Antarctic that highlight disaster risk science, emphasising evidence-based actions for avoiding disasters, with the ultimate aim of saving lives and supporting livelihoods. The key aspects are reducing vulnerabilities, connecting with sustainability, and respecting a wide variety of knowledges and wisdoms, notably Indigenous understandings. Other important topics are rarely considered hazards, emergency preparedness, emergency management, post-disaster reconstruction, and climate change mitigation, impacts, and adaptation which would be enfolded within wider topics such as pollution prevention and disaster risk reduction.
We welcome authors from any discipline, profession, or education level. Contributors can submit a commentary (a 700–800-word short opinion or analysis piece), an article (a 1,000-3,000-word analysis), or a multimedia contribution (we have published videos, audio, infographics, and poetry) focusing on polar disaster risk reduction and response.
If you are interested in contributing, please submit an abstract of no more than 150, as well as a short paragraph about yourself to the series editors Jeevan Toor (jeevan.toor@thearcticinstitute.org) and Ilan Kelman (ilan_kelman@hotmail.com) copying Alina Bykova (alina.bykova@thearcticinstitute.org) by June 1 (Sunday), 2025, 23:59 EST. Abstracts received after 1 June will be considered, but will not be given priority.
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