Call for papers for the journal Ecología Política, number 46, “The political ecology of biodiversity”
We are writing you on behalf of Ecologia Politica, a semi-annual journal in Spanish addressing environmental questions and their link to society. The journal is more than 20 years old and distributed mainly in Spain and Latin America. Its target is academics and environmental/social organisations. You can find more information under www.ecologiapolitica.info, where you can also download the digital version of the first 42 issues.
The next issue will be focused on “The political ecology of biodiversity” and will be published in December, 2013. We would like to invite you to send us proposals of articles about this topic or proposals of people who could write a good article about this subject. The types of articles published in the journal are the following:
- In-depth articles related to the main subject of the issue. These are articles which analyse the topic in detail, and their length should be approximately 8 pages.
- Short articles with a regional approach and related to the main subject of the issue. They analyse a concrete case study and are approximately 4 pages long.
- Opinion articles related to the subject of the issue. They give a personal and critical vision of the subject matter.
- Articles about resistance or social movements related to the subject matter.
The conditions for different types of articles including their length and format can be consulted on the webpage under the subtitle “enviar artículos” http://ecologiapolitica.info/wordpress/?page_id=6. Only those that comply with the format of the journal will get published.
The proposals should include an abstract of the article. The deadline for sending proposals is 11/10/13 and the deadline for sending the final version of articles that have to be translated to Spanish is 31/10/13. The proposals have to be sent to [email protected].
We are looking forward to receive your proposals. If you have any questions or want more information about details please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Best regards,
Coordination of the journal Ecología Política