Edited by Andrew Kirby and running as a supplement to Cities, Current Research on Cities is designed to be the first meta-journal in urban studies, drawing on the potential of digital information to provide powerful support to the researcher, practitioner and teacher in a rapidly expanding field of great global importance.
Editor Professor Andrew Kirby also runs the URBAN blog for researchers, teachers and other professionals, from all backgrounds, who are interested in any aspect of cities in any part of the world. The purpose is to provide usable, immediate information across the urban spectrum.
The primary goal of new journal City, Culture and Society is to promote pioneering research on cities and to foster the sort of urban administration that has the vision and authority to reinvent cities adapted to the challenges of the 21st century.
The first volume of CCS is now available to read online:
We are delighted to announce the publication of a special issue celebrating the 20th anniversary of Global Environmental Change, including an essay by Elinor Ostrom, editorial board member of the journal and recipient of the prestigious Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009.
The special issue is now available to read online on ScienceDirect.
The Marine Policy paper 'The global potential for whale watching', published in Volume 34, Issue 6 (November 2010) and authored by A.M. Cisneros-Montemayor, U.R. Sumaila, K. Kaschner and D. Pauly has been picked up by various media sites over the summer:’
Historical Geography at Large is a new section of the journal devoted to reviews and commentaries on work beyond the traditional confines of the academy. The insights of historical geographers are being put to work in a wide variety of public arenas, including exhibitions, magazines, television and the digital media. In these contexts new research in historical geography finds new audiences, while these media also offer the possibility of more dialogic and more participatory models of knowledge creation.
