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Call for Papers - A Special Issue of the Journal of Sustainable Mobility:
Sustainable Mobility in China and its Implications for Emerging Economies
Call for Papers
A Special Issue of the Journal of Sustainable Mobility: Sustainable Mobility
in China and its Implications for Emerging Economies
Guest Editors: Professor Fuquan Zhao and Dr Han Hao, Tsinghua University,
China
Editor-in-Chief: Michael Zhang, Nottingham Business School, UK
Full paper submission deadline: 31 December 2014
Full details:
<http://greenleaf-journals.com/index.php/jsm/announcement/view/4>
http://greenleaf-journals.com/index.php/jsm/announcement/view/4
Introduction
After three decades of rapid economic growth, China became the world's
second largest economy in 2010 after the United States of America. Along
with the prospect of lifting millions out of poverty and improving living
standards, Chinais facing yet new challenges of rapid urbanization. Recent
research findings show that in 2012 urbanization rate was 52.6% in
China(Lacy et al., 2013). It is predicted that by 2020 the number of
megacities in Chinawith an urban population of more than 10 million will
increase to thirteen. Along with the increase in urban population and living
standards there has been rapid increase of car ownership in China. It is
estimated that there are more than five million vehicles in Beijing (Cheng,
2013; Economist, 2013). Large cities and prefecture-level cities already
contributed 89.6% of China's total industrial CO2 emissions. One day in
January 2013 air inBeijing was heavily polluted to a level of toxicity
(smog) forty times the standard safe level set by the World Health
Organization (Economist, 2013).
At the international level, transport contributed 61.5% to world petroleum
consumption and 22.3% to global CO2 emissions in 2010 (IEA, 2012). While the
overall level of CO2 emissions in developed economies is stabilizing and in
some cases declining, the levels in the developing and emerging economies
are increasing. Large emerging economies with megacities will imminently
become the major concerns of transport-related CO2 emissions. Without
strategic innovations in the automotive industry and transport management
system the current state ofChina's transport sector is not sustainable. The
long-term sustainable solutions are likely to emerge from the interplay of
economic, environmental, social and technological factors.
The Special Issue, partnered with the Second International Symposium on
Sustainable Mobility, will focus on the issues of developing policies and
corporate strategies to help the automotive industry, transport management
systems, and urban planning to embark on a sustainable path to future growth
and development (WBCSD, 2007; World Bank, 2008). It is envisaged that
critical debate and research findings of the issue will shed light on future
research and practice on sustainable mobility in emerging economies in
general and that in megacities in particular.
The Special Issue invites contributions in, but not limited to, the
following areas:
. Regional development and urbanisation in China
. Socio-economic analysis of sustainable mobility
. Low-carbon vehicle technologies including battery-powered electric
vehicles (BEVs), fuel cell vehicles (FCVs), biofuel vehicles (BFVs) and
hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs)
. Low-carbon intelligent transport systems
. Energy market and policy analysis
. Alternative energies including biofuels, natural gas-derived
fuels, and clean coal-derived fuels
. Transport demand management and modal shift
. Corporate sustainability and sustainable mobility
. Global value chains for sustainable mobility
. Venture capital and the development of low-carbon vehicles
. Low-carbon designing, manufacturing and recycling in the
automotive industry
Submissions
We invite the submission of research papers, policy debates, case studies,
and research notes. We encourage submissions from academics with a
research-orientation and also business practitioners and policymakers, from
the public and private sectors.
Social Sciences papers can be 4,000-6,000 words, while Engineering and
Technology papers should be 2,000-4,000 words. Initial expressions of
interest in the form of abstracts of approximately 300 words are also
welcomed by the editor prior to full submission.
Full paper submission deadline: 31 December 2014
Accepted papers will be published in May 2015 (JSM, Vol 2: Issue 1, SI)
For more information see the
<http://greenleaf-journals.com/index.php/jsm/about/submissions#authorGuideli
nes> author guidelines.
The Journal of Sustainable Mobility is published by Greenleaf Publishing in
association with Nottingham Trent University, UK, Cranfield University, UK,
and the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), China. It is an online-only
journal, though print copies may be produced for specific events. It is also
included as part of the <http://www.gseresearch.com/sol> Sustainable
Organization Library (SOL) and the <http://www.gseresearch.com/gol>
Greenleaf Organization Library (GOL).
Submissions should be made via the online submission form. Please specify
that you are submitting to the special issue, listed in 'sections'. Queries
and abstracts should be directed to the Editor Michael Zhang.
Editor-in-Chief
Dr Michael Zhang,Nottingham Business School,
Nottingham Trent University,UK
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