[P2P-F] CALL FOR PAPERS: FIRST ISSUE of "Culture, Climate and Change: Biocultural Systems and Livelihoods"

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CALL FOR PAPERS: FIRST ISSUE

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This new, open-access transdisciplinary journal Culture, Climate and
Change: Biocultural Systems and Livelihoods aims to critically engage
with and disseminate biocultural approaches to understanding and
responding to climate change and global change processes.

The journal puts into practice the ‘epistemic bridging’ that lies at the
heart of indigenous peoples’ biocultural understanding of territory,
community, climate and ecosystems through sharing across practice based
learning, research findings and conceptual papers.

A feature of this first issue will be a section on REDD and REDD+. We
are particularly interested in articles that explore the relationship
between the rights of forest dwelling indigenous peoples and climate
change mitigation mechanisms for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
and Forest Degradation (REDD).

Types of Papers:

    Research Articles (5 – 8,000 words)

    Essays

    Book and report reviews

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Please visit the CCC:BSL site at
http://journals.sfu.ca/ccc/index.php/ccc/index for all the information
on how to format your manuscript, as well as on-line submissions. Please
note that you must register (go to
http://journals.sfu.ca/ccc.index.php/ccc/user/register) as an author to
be able to submit your manuscript.

For more information:

http://journals.sfu.ca/ccc/index.php/ccc/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

Completed manuscripts submitted by December 23rd will be considered for
the journal launch in January 2012.. Manuscripts submitted after this
date will also be considered for the first issue, which will continue to
publish papers through till March 2012.

Short contributions: Maximum length 2,000 words

Research articles: Maximum length 8,000 words

JOURNAL EDITORS

Dr Marina Apgar, Indigenous Peoples’ Biocultural Climate Change
Assessment (IPCCA) initiative, Asociacion ANDES, Cusco, Peru

Dr Will Allen, Learning for Sustainability -
http://learningforsustainability.net/

Dr Martin Pedersen, Co-founder | t r 3 3 |

Dr Nina Moeller, Freelance Consultant, UK

Further info:

A new journal of biocultural systems & livelihoods:

Climate change is perhaps the biggest challenge that communities and
ecosystems across the world face today. Indigenous peoples and local
communities living in biodiverse and fragile ecosystems of the planet
are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to their
direct reliance on local, natural systems for their livelihoods,
well-being and cultural expressions. Paradoxically, they also
potentially hold vital knowledge, gained through co-evolutionary
relationships with the natural systems that have enabled their survival
and resilience. Understanding climate change, its impacts on local and
global systems, and potential solutions requires touching upon concerns
of how to link the social to the environmental within a framework of
equity and justice. It requires dialogue across scales from the local to
the global. Holistic approaches, such as indigenous and biocultural
approaches offer potential avenues for understanding the challenge and
building appropriate solutions.

This new, open-access transdisciplinary journal Culture, Climate and
Change: Biocultural Systems and Livelihoods aims to critically engage
with and disseminate biocultural approaches to understanding and
responding to climate change and global change processes.

The journal puts into practice the ‘epistemic bridging’ that lies at the
heart of indigenous peoples’ biocultural understanding of territory,
community, climate and ecosystems through sharing across practice based
learning, research findings and conceptual papers.

In light of a commitment to building epistemological bridges between
different knowledge systems, the journal will use an open peer review
process which aims to promote an environment of cooperation, knowledge
exchange and networking between authors and reviewers of the journal
community.
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