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New RSA Journal Area Development and Policy - First issue freely available online until 31^st May 2016

 

Dear colleagues

 

The Regional Studies Association is pleased to announce that the first issue of the latest journal developed by the Regional Studies Association (RSA) is now freely available online until 31^st May 2016. 

 

Area Development and Policy is a new journal that engages with the transformation of the modern world as a result of development of the global South/Greater BRICS. In three issues per year, the journal publishes original academic research examining the multi-scalar and geographically differentiated relationships between economic and political organization/governance, ways of life and work and their context, as they shape regions, cities, rural areas and their inter-relationships. 

 

The journal will be published online in three issues throughout the year and a printed volume containing all three issues will printed and available to RSA members as part of their membership benefits. For more details on RSA membership, please go to www.regionalstudies.org/membership

 

First Issue – FREE ACCESS

Please spread the word about this journal and feel free to distribute the link below to your colleagues. The journal is freely accessible to anyone until 31^st May 2016. To access the journal, please go to http://rsa.tandfonline.com/loi/rard20#.VxjUh9UrKUl

 

Papers in the first issue:

 

Area development and policy: an agenda for the 21st century

Authors: Michael Dunford, Yuko Aoyama, Clélio Campolina Diniz, Amitabh Kundu, Leonid Limonov, George Lin, Weidong Liu, Sam Ock Park & Ivan Turok

Geopolitics of the Amazon

Author: Bertha K. Becker

Getting urbanization to work in Africa: the role of the urban land-infrastructure-finance nexus

Author: Ivan Turok

Land acquisition in India: The political-economy of changing the law

Author: Sanjoy Chakravorty

Regional cultural diversity in Russia: does it matter for regional economic performance?

Authors: Leonid Limonov & Marina Nesena

China’s evolving role in Apple’s global value chain

Authors: Seamus Grimes & Yutao Sun

 

Population growth, land allocation and conflict in Mali

Authors: Mark Skidmore, John Staatz, Nango Dembélé & Aissatou Ouédraogo

Urban–rural integration drives regional economic growth in Chongqing, Western China

Authors: Weidong Liu, Michael Dunford, Zhouying Song & Mingxing Chen

 

 

Call for Papers

 

We welcome submissions for this journal from RSA members and non-members. For more details on the Call for Papers, please go to http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/pgas/area-development-and-policy

 

 

 

Best regards

 

Monika Gerykova

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