CITIES ON AN ECOLOGICAL EDGE - Review of Urban Affairs 2026

Call for Papers

CITIES ON AN ECOLOGICAL EDGE - Review of Urban Affairs 2026

Journal: Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) - Review of Urban Affairs
Publisher: Sameeksha Trust
Abstract Submission Deadline: 20 April 2026
Full Paper Submission Deadline: 10 August 2026

Introduction
Across global South cities, rising temperatures, extreme heat, urban flooding, water scarcity, and deteriorating air quality severely impact health, lives, and livelihoods, disproportionately affecting vulnerable, poor, and marginalized communities. Cities remain economic hubs driving innovation and infrastructure while paradoxically intensifying ecological crises through unplanned construction, carbon emissions, loss of green cover and wetlands, and urban heat island effects. This issue examines urban ecological transitions amid multidimensional poverty, inequality, and governance fragmentation.

Guest Editors
Review of Urban Affairs Editors

List of Topic Areas
Submissions invited on (but not limited to):

• Urban ecological crises impacts on health, lives, livelihoods of vulnerable groups

• Trade-offs and contestations between urban development and environmental sustainability

• Pathways of sustainable urban transformations in transport, housing, waste, water, energy

• Governance, financial, social, political, institutional challenges in climate-resilient cities

• Emergent planning frameworks, regulatory changes, investment patterns for inclusive cities

• Climate action plans, low-emission infrastructures, nature-based resilience solutions

• Role of actors, instruments, spaces in sustainable urban decision-making

• Gendered impacts of climate disasters on women caregivers in informal economies

Guest Editors Contact Details

Submission Process & Deadlines
Submit 600-800 word abstracts to epwrua2026@gmail.com by 20 April 2026. Selected abstracts notified by 10 May 2026.
Full papers (6000-8000 words) due 10 August 2026. Revised final drafts due 10 October 2026.
Early career scholars from India especially encouraged to submit.

Submission Guidelines
Follow EPW Notes for Contributors: https://www.epw.in/notes-contributors.html

About the Journal
Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), ISSN 0012-9976 (Print), 2349-8846 (Online), is India's premier social science journal publishing critical research on development, policy, and society.

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