How to contribute

Thank you for your interest in submitting an article for publication in HazNet.

HazNet Magazine serves as the information dissemination platform of the Canadian Risks and Hazards Network. The magazine is published biannually, both online and in limited hard copy format. The magazine is distributed through academic and practitioner networks across Canada and internationally. The platform is updated throughout the year to serve the information needs of practitioners and researchers working in the fields of disaster risk reduction, emergency management and resilience.

Our mandate is to foster an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral education and engagement to enhance understanding of resilience, emergency management and disaster risk reduction.

Join us in telling Canada’s resilience story.

Upcoming issues

Fall 2025 – Evacuations
Submissions due November 15, 2025
Canada’s 2025 wildfire season has already become the second-worst on record, with devastating fires in places that do not typically experience wildfires. In this edition of HazNet, we invite contributors to explore how the risk landscape is changing, what solutions are emerging, and how people on the frontlines are adapting to more frequent disasters. This edition will feature a special section on evacuations. From the logistics of moving thousands of people to the disruption caused by such displacement, we’re looking for stories, strategies, and reflections on what works, what doesn’t, and what needs to change. Contributors are encouraged to share lived experiences, operational insights, and research.
  1. How is fire behaviour shifting, and what does this mean for our understanding of risk and preparedness?
  2. What new risks are emerging for firefighters and frontline responders amid longer, more intense disaster seasons?
  3. What solutions or strategies have been implemented in recent evacuations that show promise, and how might they inform future response and recovery?
  4. How are displaced individuals and communities navigating the aftermath of evacuation, and what supports have proven most effective or lacking?

Summer 2026 – CRHNet Symposium
This issue will focus on the key insights, new ideas, and insights that emerge from the 2026 CRHNet Symposium being held in Edmonton, Alberta from May 12-15. The Symposium’s theme, “Living the Lessons: From Impact to Insight” reflects a growing urgency to not only learn the lessons of the past but evolve our approach to disaster risk reduction to prepare for a more uncertain future. The time for incremental improvement has passed. We must turn impact into insight, and insight into action in order to build stronger, more inclusive communities.
See the CRHNet page on the symposium for further details.

Fall/Winter 2026 – Disasters ‘R’ Us
Emergency management is more than just a profession; it’s a lived experience. In this edition of HazNet, we turn the lens inward to examine the people behind the scenes, the systems underpinning emergency management, and the culture that defines our field. From burnout to breakthroughs, we invite contributors to reflect on how we grow, how we learn, and how we support each other in a world where disasters are constant and complex.
  1. When professional and personal overlap: How can emergency managers be better prepared and what strategies do they use to manage the personal toll of disasters?
  2. What’s worth it? Professional development that pays off.
  3. Supporting the next generation: How can we help young people gain meaningful experience in emergency management?
  4. Culture check: What unspoken norms or habits in EM are helping or hindering our ability to adapt and evolve?

How to submit

We welcome articles identifying and discussing issues, policies, planning, research reports, book reviews, photographic essays, artistic contributions and any other information relevant to emergency management, climate change, disaster risk reduction and community resilience that meet our publishing standards.

If you would like to contribute and think your submission meets our publishing standards, please follow our submission guidelines. There are two ways to submit an article: 

  1. Follow the submission checklist and template below to build your submission. Submit via the Google submission form. 
  2. Follow the submission checklist and template below to build your submission. Submit via email to haznet@crhnet.ca with the subject line: “Submission – (Theme of issue)”

We encourage you to adopt the submission guidelines; we are a volunteer-based team that aims to achieve high quality publishing standards while ensuring we continue to share stories that are timely and timeless with our readers.

 

About Canadian Risks and Hazards Network (CRHNet)

The Canadian Risks and Hazards Network is a not-for-profit association established to

  • initiate the development of a Canadian inter-disciplinary and cross-sectoral network of researchers, academics and practitioners to enhance understanding of emergency management in all dimensions and help build Canadian capacity to deal effectively with threats and consequences from all hazards;
  • create a Canadian Annual Symposium for dialogue focusing on disaster risk reduction and facilitate policy formulation and adoption of best practices in Canada;
  • provide a Canadian venue to learn from the experiences of other countries by inviting international reputed scholars, practitioners and participants to the annual Symposium and to share Canadian experience and efforts in disaster reduction; and
  • publish HazNet, a bi-annual journal comprised of articles on a wide range of topics within the emergency and disaster management arena.

Visit www.crhnet.ca for more information.

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