Natural Resources Forum (NRF) is a United Nations Sustainable Development Journal that is published quarterly by the Division for Sustainable Development of the United Nations. The main focus of the journal remains on international, multidisciplinary issues related to sustainable development and especially about developing countries.
Papers are now being invited for a new series on the following themes of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development at its 20th and 21st sessions, over the 2012-2014 period:
- Forests
- Biodiversity
- Biotechnology
- Tourism
- Mountains
General Requirements
Articles submitted should be relevant to policymaking, and should address the topics from a sustainable development perspective, i.e. treating economic, social, and environmental aspects in an integrated way. Articles cantered on the evaluation of global, national and local policies and programmes are encouraged.
Angles of interest include cross-cutting themes such as poverty eradication, changing unsustainable patterns of consumption and production, protecting and managing the natural resource base of development, application of integrated planning and policy tools for decision-making, institutions for sustainable development, sustainable development in a globalizing world, and sustainable development of small islands developing states, Africa, or other regions.
Articles should contain original material and should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words in length.
Criteria for Selection
General criteria for selection of submitted articles include:
- Relevance and importance of the topic discussed to sustainable development in general, both in terms of policy impacts and gaps in current knowledge being addressed by the article;
- Treatment of the topic that incorporates social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainable development, rather than focusing purely on sectoral and/or technical aspects;
- Articles must contain original applied material drawn from concrete projects, policy implementation, or literature reviews; purely theoretical papers are not entertained.
- Apart from peer-reviewed articles, the journal includes Book Reviews and a ‘Viewpoints’ section where contributors present different perspectives on a particular topic.
Last date for submitting the papers is November 15, 2011.
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