Call for papers: Cities and Rivers: Vital Relationships between Communities and Fluvial Landscapes

2022-10-11

The network Cyted RUN | Naturalized Urban Rivers, in partnership with the journal CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios invites to submit papers for the Thematic Dossier Cities and Rivers.

For the Thematic Dossier, to be published in CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios in November 2025, we are looking for papers that reflect experiences and research on innovative governance processes for the sustainable management of rivers in urban systems, and strategies, proposals and projects that improve the integration of rivers within cities. We are also interested in projects and interventions that consider the inclusion of the riverside population as well as risk mitigation as an essential part of planning, promotion of river’s regeneration and their reintegration into the urban fabric in a more sustainable way.

Therefore, contributions that rethink cities as integrated elements in highly dynamic river landscapes, and value urban rivers as essential and manipulated parts of urban infrastructure are welcome.

The approach to Urban Rivers is part of the global campaign promoted by UN-HABITAT/Urban Thinkers “RUN Campus on Citizens Science in Practice”, which addresses strategies and participatory processes in the regeneration of urban rivers.

In particular, papers that cover the main research topics of the Cyted RUN | Naturalized Urban Rivers network are encouraged:

  • Blue and Green Infrastructure
  • Participatory sciences
  • Citizen science and co-creation as a means of river regeneration
  • Education for Global Citizenship
  • Urban/Water Governance
  • Urban territory and river landscapes
  • Values and memories
  • Strategies, proposals, and projects for the regeneration and restoration of rivers and watercourses
  • Tools for reading urban and river territory
  • Mitigation of threat risks
  • Mitigation of environmental conflicts

Instructions for authors:

Authors are invited to submit by 31 January 2025 an abstract of up to 250 words explaining the proposed contribution, its objectives and methodology, including title, author(s), three to five keywords (please avoid expressions such as “river” or "urban river") and up to five references to the following address cidate.coordination@ulusofona.pt.

After the evaluation process with notice to the authors, the full papers must be submitted until March 15, 2025 directly on the CIDADES journal platform https://revistas.rcaap.pt/cct/about/submissions., stating the name of the dossier and/or its guest editors. Please check here for further rules for preparing your paper. Papers are accepted in Portuguese, Spanish and English (Oxford spelling).

 

Aditional information:

cidate.coordination@ulusofona.pt

ou a revista CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios

cidades.dinamiacet@iscte-iul.pt

 

Acknowledgments:

The Thematic Dossier Cities and Rivers: Vital Relationships between Communities and Fluvial Landscapes is supported by the Cyted Network “RUN | Naturalised Urban Rivers”, funded by the Ibero-American Science and Technology Programme - Cyted, contract no. 420RT0008, https://www.cyted.org/run-rios-urbanos-naturalizados.