Abstract Anthropogenic climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of the physical threats to human and planetary wellbeing. However, climate change risks, and their interaction with other “riskscapes”, remain understudied. Riskscapes encompass different viewpoints on the threat of loss across space, time, individuals and collectives. This Special Issue of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society enhances our understanding of the multifaceted and interlocking dimensions of climate change and riskscapes. It brings together rigorous and critical international scholarship across diverse realms on inquiry under two, interlinked, themes: (i) governance and institutional responses and (ii) vulnerabilities and inequalities. The contributors offer a forceful reminder that when considering climate change, social justice principles cannot be appended after the fact. Climate change adaptation and mitigation pose complex and interdependent social and ethical dilemmas that will need to be explicitly confronted in any activation of “Green New Deal” strategies currently being developed internationally. Such critical insights about the layered, unequal and institutional dimensions of risks are of paramount import when considering other riskscapes pertaining to conflict and war, displaced people and pandemics like the 2019–2020 global COVID-19 pandemic.

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风险情景和气候变化的社会空间挑战

摘要 人为气候变化正在增加对人类和地球福祉的物理威胁的频率和严重程度。然而，气候变化风险及其与其他“风险情景”的相互作用仍未得到充分研究。风险情景包含对跨空间、时间、个人和集体的损失威胁的不同观点。剑桥地区、经济和社会杂志的这一特刊增强了我们对气候变化和风险景观多方面和相互关联的维度的理解。它汇集了跨不同领域的严谨和批判性国际学术研究，涉及两个相互关联的主题：(i) 治理和机构响应以及 (ii) 脆弱性和不平等。撰稿人有力地提醒人们，在考虑气候变化时，不能在事后附加社会正义原则。气候变化适应和缓解带来了复杂且相互依存的社会和伦理困境，目前国际上正在制定的“绿色新政”战略的任何激活都需要明确面对这些困境。在考虑与冲突和战争、流离失所者和 2019-2020 年全球 COVID-19 大流行等流行病有关的其他风险情景时，这种关于风险的分层、不平等和制度层面的批判性见解至关重要。