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THE INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
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• Represents an essential reference resource for undergraduate and graduate students, professional geographers and other scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Further information, including a full table of contents as well as sample articles, have been hosted on the dedicated microsite here.
The 14th International Conference of Historical Geographers (ICHG) is to be held at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan. All Historical Geographers and scholars from cognate disciplines are encouraged to attend this first meeting in East Asia which is co-sponsored by the Journal of Historical Geography. For more information please click here.
In succession to Professor Tom Clark of the University of Colorado Denver, we are pleased to announce that Professor Michael Hibbard has been appointed co-editor of the journal Progress in Planning, with effect from January 2009.
Professor Hibbard is based in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University of Oregon, where he is Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Innovation (IPRI).
His research interests include sustainable regional development and the social impacts of economic change, especially natural resource and agricultural development, on small towns, indigenous communities, and rural regions in developed countries.
He currently serves as President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) and is a former editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research.
Progress in Planning's unique series of single-issue refereed monographs continues to attract growing readership and citations worldwide.
Emotion, Space and Society provides a forum for interdisciplinary debate on theoretically informed research on the emotional intersections between people and places.
In conjunction with the launch of the journal, a new academic society called Society for the Study of Emotion, Affect and Space (SSEAS) has been launched, which shares the journal’s range of interests. Go to www.sseas.org for more information or to become a member.
Elsevier’s Engineering Village Search Platform Combines The American Geological Institute’s Georef Database with Google Maps
Engineering Village, an Elsevier online search platform that provides database content and analysis for engineering researchers, announced today the addition of the American Geological Institute’s GeoRef database to its content offerings. In addition, the new GeoRef database and Engineering Village’s existing GeoBase database have both been ‘mashed-up’ with Google Maps to create a unique results mapping tool. For more information please visit www.engineeringvillage.com/georef
Announcing the publication of an English edition of “China Population, Resources and Environment” which promotes sustainable development in China
Many ideas of this journal have been absorbed in governmental documents such as the China's Agenda 21, the Report of Chinese Sustainable Development and the China's Action Design of Sustainable Development in the Early 21st Century. The English translation is a bridge for experts and scholars all over the world to exchange ideas, cooperation, and contribute to sustainable development.
For more information and articles please see the journal homepage
NEW SCIENTIST cites the special issue of Political Geography on "Climate Change and Conflict" to make an argument against blaming climate change for the African conflicts. To read the New Scientist article click here, and to read the Political Geography special issue click here.
Geoforum is keen to attract proposals for themed issues which contribute to the overall aims of the journal. Those wishing to submit a proposal please adhere to the Geoforum Themed Issue Protocol
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You as an individual can now get a print subscription to any Elsevier Geography, Planning and Development journal for a fraction of the institutional subscription price. Visit the individual journal homepages on www.elsevier.comfor details.
We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Transport Geography has been accepted for coverage by Thomson Scientific in the Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI®). An impact factor will be produced in the 2008 which will be published in 2009. Please join us in congratulating Richard Knowles (Editor), Andrew Goetz Jon Shaw (Associate editors), Clive Charlton (Book Review Editor), the Editorial Board, reviewers, and authors for their hard work.
On the basis of the positive evaluations of the 2006 volume, Thomson Scientific will be including Computers, Environment and Urban Systems in the Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI®). We heartily congratulate Paul Longley (Editor), Daniel Sui, & Peter van Oosterom (Associate editors), Editorial Board, reviewers, and authors for their hard work and high quality. Consequently Thomson Scientific wil be tracking articles from 2006, and the 2008 Impact Factor will be published in 2009.
• Applied Geography • Computers, Environment and Urban Systems • Global Environmental Change • Environmental Hazards • Journal of Historical Geography • Journal of Transport Geography • Land Use Policy • Landscape and Urban Planning • Marine Policy, Progress in Planning • Research Policy • Resources Policy • Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment • World Development
OARE is an online library managed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Yale University and will provide access to global scientific research to more than 1,000 public and non-profit environmental institutions in more than 100 least-developed nations of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe.
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Progress in Planning, Volume 71, Issue 3 The Isle of Dogs: Four development waves, five planning models, twelve plans, thirty-five years, and a renaissance ... of sorts
Edited by Matthew Carmona
Progress in Planning, Volume 71, Issue 2 Property Rights, Transaction Costs and Institutional Change: Conceptual Framework and Literature Review
Edited by Maliti Musole
Progress in Planning, Volume 71, Issue 1 A Turning Point in the Development of European Spatial Planning? - The 'Territorial Agenda of the European Union' and the 'First Action Programme'
Edited by Andreas Faludi
World Development, Volume 36, Issue 12 Special Section: Social Movements and the Dynamics of Rural Development in Latin America
Edited by Anthony Bebbington, Ricardo Abramovay and Manuel Chiriboga
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THE INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
On the basis of the positive evaluations of the 2006 volume, Thomson Scientific will be including Computers, Environment and Urban Systems in the Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI®). We heartily congratulate Paul Longley (Editor), Daniel Sui, & Peter van Oosterom (Associate editors), Editorial Board, reviewers, and authors for their hard work and high quality. Consequently Thomson Scientific wil be tracking articles from 2006, and the 2008 Impact Factor will be published in 2009.
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