Apologies for cross-posting Area Development and Policy Area Development and Policy is a new Regional Studies Association journal that engages with the transformation of the modern world as a result of development of the global South/Greater BRICS. The first issue is available online. Until 31st May 2016 this issue is open access in the sense that anyone, anywhere can read and download articles for free from http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rard20/current<https://exchange.sussex.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?REF=Tk6jkvFi1c6aByenpVcbpaRNeGMldwEeJwV_MZhEncMJmNCQ_3LTCAFodHRwczovL2V4Y2hhbmdlLnN1c3NleC5hYy51ay9vd2EvcmVkaXIuYXNweD9SRUY9a0FmTXA3dWllRmlyd0pDaTRGY09nekprSDczY2pwcHlWajNLbDBzNFpQTXFYcGpQVW5MVENBRm9kSFJ3Y3pvdkwyVjRZMmhoYm1kbExuTjFjM05sZUM1aFl5NTFheTl2ZDJFdmNtVmthWEl1WVhOd2VEOVNSVVk5Y0RSWU4xY3pTMFZPTm04eVUzSjFSREo1Vm5odFYyWnNlVkpmUkdFd1pqZG9WVFJLTURCeFNHVXdhWE4zU21oaFZVaE1WRU5CUm05a1NGSjNUMms0ZG1RelpETk1ibEpvWW0xU2JXSXlOWE5oVnpWc1RHMU9kbUpUT1RCaU1rMTJZMjFHZVZwRVNYZE1NazR4WTI1S2JHSnVVUzQu> We hope that you will find it of interest. Mick Dunford Liu Weidong Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China.