Climate Adaptation and Resilience Economics
A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154). This special issue belongs to the section "Climate and Economics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 114
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on Climate Adaptation and Resilience Economics, examining how economic research can advance strategies that reduce vulnerability and strengthen resilience in the face of climate change, ecological degradation, and increasing disaster risks. As environmental pressures intensify globally, there is a growing need for economic approaches that address uncertainty, complexity, and inequality across spatial and temporal scales.
The issue invites contributions that incorporate both micro- and macroeconomic perspectives on climate adaptation and resilience. Submissions may examine how individuals, households, firms, and governments respond to climate and environmental risks, and how economic instruments—whether market-based, regulatory, or hybrid—can support adaptive decision-making, efficient resource allocation, and equitable outcomes.
We welcome empirical and theoretical research that analyzes the economic dimensions of disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, and ecosystem-based resilience. Relevant topics include methodological advances in ecosystem service valuation, dynamic optimization under uncertainty, spatial modeling of vulnerability and exposure, resilience-oriented cost–benefit analysis, and the design of adaptive policy instruments such as carbon pricing, payment for ecosystem services, nature-based solutions, and green finance mechanisms.
This Special Issue encourages interdisciplinary research and aims to advance the emerging field of climate adaptation and resilience economics by integrating insights from environmental economics, development economics, disaster risk management, and sustainability science. We particularly welcome research that accounts for risk, uncertainty, distributional impacts, and long-term system resilience, as well as research that offers practical insights for strengthening resilient livelihoods, institutions, and ecosystems in both developed and developing contexts.
We welcome original research articles, literature reviews, and short communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Integrated modeling of sustainability and resilience outcomes;
- Economic valuation of ecosystem services under uncertainty;
- Household- and firm-level adaptation to environmental and climate risks;
- Market-based and regulatory instruments for risk mitigation;
- Governance strategies for reducing environmental vulnerability;
- Financial mechanisms that support climate resilience;
- Resilience-informed investment planning and cost–benefit analysis;
- Nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction and ecosystem restoration;
- Agricultural, energy, and water systems under climate stress;
- Behavioral economics and decision-making under environmental risk;
- Climate-induced migration and its economic implications;
- Environmental justice and the distributional impacts of adaptation policies.
Dr. Sisi Meng
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- climate economics
- climate adaptation
- disaster risk reduction
- environmental policy
- vulnerability and resilience
- sustainable development
- environmental justice
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