Geography, Planning and Development

Special Issue: The planned city sweeps the poor away...: Urban planning and 21st century urbanisation

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Published in Progress in Planning, this special issue explores the idea that urban planning has so far served to exclude the poor, but that it might be possible to develop new planning approaches and systems which address this issue.

A framework model for assessing sustainability impacts of urban development

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This Accounting Forum paper describes how a Sustainability Assessment Model has been tailored for the construction industry and urban sustainability assessment and how a set of generic sustainable development indicators have been identified and validated.

Conventions of climate change: constructions of danger and the dispossession of the atmosphere

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In Journal of Historical Geography, Liverman explores the concept of trading carbon, the unfair allocation of pollution rights based on 1990 levels, and how a new set of north�south relations has been established in the name of sustainable development.

Emotion, Space and Society article covered by The Telegraph and the Daily Mail

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Marc Bekoff's article on signs of 'human' emotions displayed by animals, such as grieving magpies and empathic elephants, has caught the media's attention. Article available via ScienceDirect.

Submit your articles to Applied Geography

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Papers�are�invited�on�any�theme�involving�the�application�of�geographical�theory�and�methodology�in�the�resolution�of�human�problems. Please send all�inquiries�to�the�editor:�Jay�D.�Gatrell - �jgatrell@indstate.edu

Read for free online Nobel Prize Winner 2009 Elinor Ostrom's Elsevier articles

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Elinor Ostrom has published many of her papers in Elsevier journals such as World Development and Ecological Economics. In recognition of her achievement, access Ostrom's, and all other 2009 Nobel Laureates', articles for free online

Future of Cities conference, Feb 8-9 2010, London

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Can cities lead in meeting new challenges? Facing rapid urbanization worldwide, cities need to address challenges such as energy and water supply, demographics, climate change. Join the discussion at The Future of Cities, 8 - 9 February 2010, London

City branding and the Olympic effect: A case study of Beijing

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This paper examines the effectiveness of efforts to brand Beijing, the capital city of China and argues that the Beijing Olympics could only have limited impacts on the city's brand. The rest of this article can be accessed via ScienceDirect.

Nobel prize winner on editorial boards of Global Environmental Change and Ecological Economics

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009 was awarded to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson. Ostrom has published with Elsevier, and is on the editorial board for Ecological Economics and Global Environmental Change.

Video Interview with Graham Moon, Editor in Chief of Health and Place

Thu, 8 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In this interview Graham tells us about the journal Health & Place, what has contributed to its success, papers he would like to see submitted including health policy, health behavior and environmental change impacts on health.

New Journal for 2010 - City, Culture and Society

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

City, Culture and Society focuses on urban governance in the 21st century, under the banner of cultural creativity and social inclusion. Covering a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, economics, planning, political science and geography.

Geo-information Generalisation and Multiple Representation Special Issue

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Published in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, this special issue is a must read for any researcher or practitioner in the field, with articles such as 'Abstract representations for interactive visualization of virtual 3D city models'

Journal of Rural Studies - 25th Anniversary Virtual Special Issues on Rurality, and Land and Food

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Chosen by the Editor, Paul Cloke, these articles demonstrate the journal's 25 years of excellence in rural research.

Video Interview with Rik Leemans, Co Editor in Chief of new journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Rik discusses the aims and scope of this new journal, how the need for this new journal had been recognized and what kind of topic wil be published, starting with the two first launch issues.

Who is afraid of Charles Darwin

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This article explores how and why the reaction of much of the geography community to the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth contrasts with seemingly everyone else.

Make an Impact with Health and Place

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We are delighted to announce that Health and Place now has an impact factor of 2.818.

Call For Abstracts - Urban Environmental Pollution 2010 conference

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Theme: Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life, 20-23 June 2010 Selected papers from the oral and poster presentations will be published in a special issue of the Environmental Pollution. Submit abstracts by February 1st, 2010

Health and Place moves to 6 issues per year from 2010

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce that from 2010, the now quarterly publication Health and Place will move to 6 issues per year.

Special Issue on De-centring White Ruralities: Ethnicity and Indigeneity

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Edited by Ruth Panelli, Phil Hubbard, Brad Coombes and Sandie Suchet-Pearson, this special issue, published in Journal of Rural Studies, explores the relationship between rurality and ethnicity.

Special Issue on Activism and Emotional Systainability

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Read this fascinating special issue, published in Emotion, Space and Society, which explores the theme of activism and emotional sustainability from a unique spatial perspective.

Geoforum Virtual Special Issue Celebrating Its 40th Anniversary Now Online

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This virtual special issue celebrates the 40th anniversary of the interdisciplinary journal, Geoforum. We would like to thank everyone involved over the years for their hard work which has resulted in the journal's long-standing success.

Watch an Interview with the Editor-in-Chief of Health and Place, Graham Moon

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Watch Professor Moon on Youtube as he discusses his aims for the journal and encourages the submission of health geography papers.

Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies, April 6�8, 2010

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Organized by the Society for the Study of Emotion, Affect and Space, the conference will be held at the University of South Australia, April 6-8, 2010 Invited Speakers include: Professor Sara Ahmed, Professor Pal Ahluwalia and Professor Michael Dutton

Read Nigel Thrift's article on biology and culture

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Read this article on how biology and culture have become increasingly intertwined by one of the world's foremost human geographers, Nigel Thrift, in Volume 1, Issue 2 of Emotion, Space and Society.

Special Issue on Spatial politics and cultural significance of high-resolution satellite imagery

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The multidisciplinary journal Geoforum has published a themed issue entitled 'The �view from nowhere�? Spatial politics and cultural significance of high-resolution satellite imagery'

News from Health and Place

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Health and Place�s 2009 Impact Factor is 2.818 (Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports, Social Science Edition) and the journal is now ranked 6th out of 76 journals in its subject category. From 2010 we will be increasing frequency from 4 to 6 issues

Elsevier's 2008 Journal Impact Factor Highlights

Fri, 7 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

According to the 2008 Journal Citation Report published by ThomsonReuters, Elsevier journals took the No. 1 position in 51 categories (of 229 in total) across all of the sciences and social sciences.

A case-study of US mass-media coverage of climate change

Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A study, published in Geoforum, demonstrates that US mass-media coverage of the crucial issue of climate change is informationally deficient.

Read about Traditional Peoples and Climate Change

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The relationship and impact is explored in the latest issue of Global Environmental Change.

Special issue published on Climate Change and Human Settlements

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Visit this link to view the abstracts (and full-text articles if you are a subscriber) for the new Special Issue on Climate Change and Human Settlements, published in Volume 44, Issue 3 of Habitat International.

Geoforum special issue on Globalising Failures published

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Geoforum have recently published a fantastic special issue on Globalising Failures, edited by Diane Perrons and Silvia Posocco, which explores such topics as globalising initiatives for gender eqaulity and poverty reduction, amongst many more.

Is Transparency the Key to Reducing Corruption in Resource-Rich Countries?

Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

New research from the journal World Development suggests that transparency is insufficient in itself to reduce corruption, and must be implemented by further policies.