Risks in the Anthropocene:

Environmental Changes, Global Transformations and Displacement

The Anthropocene is characterized by profound transformations in the relationship between human societies and the environment. Climate change, environmental degradation, land-use transformation, resource pressures, technological development and rapid socio-economic changes are reshaping territories and generating new configurations of risk and vulnerability.

Risks can no longer be understood exclusively as the result of natural processes. They increasingly emerge from the interaction between environmental dynamics, human actions and global transformations, producing complex and sometimes compound forms of risk. In this context, floods, droughts, wildfires, landslides, desertification, coastal hazards and other environmental risks may be intensified by human pressures, while social inequalities, territorial vulnerability and inadequate governance can further amplify their consequences.

These transformations also have important implications for human mobility and displacement. Environmental degradation, climate-related hazards, resource insecurity and socio-economic vulnerability can interact with political and territorial factors, contributing to migration, forced displacement and the emergence of new forms of vulnerability.

The Symposium therefore aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for discussing risks in the Anthropocene, bringing together perspectives from geography, environmental sciences, climate studies, social sciences, migration studies, territorial planning and disaster-risk research. Attention will be given to the relationships between environmental change, human actions, global transformations, risk production, vulnerability, adaptation, resilience and displacement.

The Symposium welcomes theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions addressing the multiple dimensions of risk and the changing relationships between societies, territories and environmental systems.