8/3/2019 Call for Papers CCC 1st Issue
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CALL FOR PAPERS
A new journal of biocultural systems & l iveli hoodsClimate
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 acrossscales 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 disseminatebiocultural 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 indigenouspeoples 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.
8/3/2019 Call for Papers CCC 1st Issue
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CALL FOR PAPERS FIRST ISSUE
The first issue is now open for submissions. Articles will begin
to be published in January
2012 and can continue to be published until the issue closes.
Contributions should
emphasise the interconnected reality of indigenous biocultural
systems and how they
enable adaptive capacity, resilience and mitigation. Submissions
that provide localperspectives and knowledge as well as academic
and professional inquiry into the
discourses and practices of socio-ecological and biocultural
complex systems, climate
change, conservation, endogenous development and indigenous
rights are all welcome.
Original articles, research report summaries and brief
communications are welcome.
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 anauthor
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/
