Call for Papers -- Area Development and Policy: A new journal from the Regional Studies Association

Area Development and Policy (ADP) aims to be a world-class journal publishing original academic research examining the multi-scalar and geographically differentiated relationships between economic and political organization, ways of life and work and their context, as they shape regions, cities, rural areas and their inter-relationships.

Geographically it concentrates on issues relating to the Greater BRICS, and aims to publish research emerging from these countries as well from the developed world. ADP recognizes that the economic, political, cultural and geographical context plays a fundamental role in shaping development. ADP therefore recognizes that research should examine the role of diverse national and regional institutional configurations and value systems, and that theories should derive from the experiences and values of these countries and regions and not necessarily from the possibly exceptional experiences of Northwest Europe and North America. ADP aims to expand common ground while accepting differences, improve mutual communication and increase cooperation and shared learning.

All submitted research is refereed, evaluated by a distinguished board of Editors and Editorial Advisors and accepted for publication only if it meets high scholarly standards of originality, significance and rigour in advancing understanding of area development and policy.

Authors are welcome to submit original research articles (not exceeding 8,000 words), shorter review articles (of up to 6,000 words), and research notes (not exceeding 4,000 words) dealing with themes relating to the mission of the journal, which may include, but are not confined to:

• Alternative paradigms for spatial development
• Governance and territorial development
• Diversity (cultural, ethnic) and local/regional development
• Human/social capital and territorial development
• South-South relations and urban and regional development
• Inward and outward foreign investment, MNEs and territorial development
• Geopolitics, rising powers and spatial development
• Uneven/comparative development, spatial convergence/divergence
• Endogenous innovation, spatial innovation systems, knowledge flows and territorial development
• Inclusive urbanisation, land rights, urban-rural integration
• Informality, segregation, exclusion and city development
• Urban renewal and area-based initiatives 
• Property, housing markets and land use
• Geographical mobility and spatial development
• Interregional migration, demographic trends and contexts
• Geographies of industrialisation and deindustrialisation
• Development of remote/northern/ecologically sensitive areas
• Restructuring old industrial areas, emerging new industrial areas 
• Commodity-driven territorial development
• The role of infrastructure in urban and regional development
• The role of local and regional institutions in development
• Urban and regional finance, fiscal federalism, transfers and spatial development
• Regional planning and policies
• Political economy of natural resources within federal/unitary systems 
• Cross-border development
• Trade and energy corridors
• Rapid metropolitanization and the urban crisis 
• Regional economic and political integration: successes and failures
• Resource efficiency, green economy and spatial development
• Climate change, adaptation and regional resilience

Submission instructions

All papers should be submitted via the ScholarOne system. Visit the ADP Instructions for Authors page for more details about submitting your work.

Editors

Michael Dunford, IGSNRR, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Liu Weidong, IGSNRR, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Clélio Campolina Diniz, Center for Development and Regional Planning, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil 
Amitabh Kundu, Institute for Human Development and Delhi Policy Group, India
Leonid Limonov, ICSER 'Leontief Centre' and NRU Higher School of Economics - St Petersburg, Russia
George C.S Lin, University of Hong Kong
Sam Ock Park, Seoul National University, South Korea
Ivan Turok, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa

Further Details: http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/pgas/area-development-and-policy