SHORT PAPERS
This option calls for short contributions between 1.500 and 2000 words, written in a blog post style. (characterized by a clear message accessible and interesting to a broad, transdisciplinary readership, and written in a direct, active voice – a template with specific guide for authors will be provided after abstract acceptance). Selected contributions will be published in some of the most relevant international Blogs on urban Resilience and sustainability, which have thousands of followers and readers, such as: the Urban Resilience research Network website (URNet), the UN Habitat Urban Resilience Hub’s Trends in Urban Resilience and the Association of European Planning Schools AESOP YA blog. Also, The Nature of Cities will launch a new collection of writing (with a devoted page) called Broad and Inclusive Urban Resilience, which will launch with material contributions from the conference. These options provides authors with a broad and global dissemination of their research results and case studies for a mixed pracademic and general public.
All Short Papers need to be submitted through the conference platform, and all will be published within the conference proceedings. The template for the short papers is available here. After the Conference, the editors of the partners blogs will select the best short papers to be published within their blogs, and authors will be asked to slightly adapt their short paper to each blog format. There isn’t any copyright issue regarding republishing the conference short papers in the partners blogs.
LONG PAPERS
This option calls for academic oriented contributions of between 4.500 and 6.000 words. Authors of Long Papers are invited to take a look at the conference special issues, hosted by international scientific journals and books publishers below, and decide between the following two options:
- To submit the paper directly to the journal/book editors (entering immediately the journal/book double blind review process, and skip publication in the conference proceeding.Authors interested in this first option, can follow the specific special issue guideline for authors illustrated within this page when preparing their manuscripts, and submit their papers aware that these won’t be included in the conference proceeding, and that their publication in the special issues won’t be granted, but will depend on the journal/book double blind peer review process.
- To submit the conference paper within the conference platform and have the manuscript published within the conference proceeding. For whom choose this option of submitting the long conference paper to be included in the proceeding, the template for its preparation is available here.
Authors who choose this option, are welcome to prepare and submit an improved version if interested in some special issue after the conference, however, it is important to note that there must be at least 40% improved/changes done from the conference paper, due to copyright issues of the published conference proceeding.
SPECIAL ISSUES IN PEER REVIEW SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

Special issue title:
ECO-URBANISM
Hosted by the international Journal Urban Science
Guest Editor: Dr. Ayyoob Sharifi
The focus of this Special Issue is on eco-urbanism, and conference papers that deal with the relationship between eco-urbanism and resilience are welcome to contribute to it. The relationship between nature and the cities traces back centuries and re-call the urban sustainability goal. Recently, the concept of eco-urbanism has been reinforced by smart-, eco-, green-, and carbon-neutral city labels and practices. While the special issue offers a platform for advancing our understanding of the theory and practice of eco-urbanism, papers from the conference “Re-framing Urban Resilience: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience” could offer critical thinking by exploring how resilience thinking, urban resilience theories, indicators and tools could synergistically contribute to better understanding and advancement of eco-urbanism.
For the special issue guideline visit the call for paper here.

Special issue title:
RE-FRAMING URBAN RESILIENCE IMPLEMENTATION: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THEORIES AND PRACTICES
Hosted by the international Journal CITIES
Guest Editors: Dr. Lorenzo Chelleri, Prof. Ayyoob Sharifi, Prof. Marie-Christine Therrien and Prof. Jon Coaffee
This special issue is looking to introduce and discuss how to re-frame urban resilience implementation by addressing the gaps between theories and practices, and move away from the usual normative statements characteristic to the literature around urban resilience (Coaffee et al. 2018). Case studies looking critically at the governance mechanisms, planning or design processes that operationalize the “city resilience” policy discourses and implementation challenges are welcome. We also wish to identify and discuss potential gaps and re-framing strategies regarding the better alignment of multi-perspective and multi-scale approaches to resilience building with urban sustainability and social justice.
The complete call for paper will be available soon, but authors can already check the journal guidelines while preparing their manuscripts.

Details available soon