[E&E seminars] MIT Journal Call for Papers - Justice Equity and Sustainability

[Rachel Healy]

Justice, Equity, and Sustainability



Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans



Call for Papers



Emerging research and practice recognizes that sustainable  
communities need to be built on a foundation of justice and equity.  
Environmental and social degradation are closely coupled to power  
inequity, thus compelling academics, researchers, and practitioners  
to conceptualize and build sustainable communities and places with  
these essential elements in mind. Within and between rural and urban  
communities and places, in developed and developing nations,  
achieving sustainability demands putting equity rights at the center  
of planning and implementation.



Volume 8 of Projections will bring together articles from academics  
and practitioners to theorize, critically reflect on past  
experiences, and examine the intersection of justice and  
sustainability as a framework for planning and action.  We welcome  
critical analysis, theoretical papers, plans, observations, and other  
forms of reflections on the following wide variety of topics including:



Urban and rural sustainability;
New directions in public policy;
Spatial justice;
Environmental equity and natural resource management;
Basic service provision;
Social movements and activism;
Rights-based planning; and
Citizen and community participation.


Manuscripts from all disciplines and diverse methodologies are  
welcome.  In this volume, we intend to include a combination of case  
studies, theoretical and critical analyses, research and policy  
briefs, and design and photographic conceptualizations.



Projections, the Journal of the MIT Department of Urban Studies and  
Planning, aims to provide the most in-depth, innovative treatment of  
cutting edge ideas in planning.  Each volume is devoted to a  
different topic of interest to planning scholars, students, and  
professionals.  Projections is a unique collaboration between  
graduate students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at  
MIT and an editorial board composed of leading scholars in the areas  
most closely linked to the topic under discussion.



As a peer-reviewed publication, Projections welcomes original high  
quality submissions at the vanguard of planning theory and practice.   
The editorial board for Volume 8 will include leading academics and  
practitioners whose work focuses on the intersection of justice and  
sustainability.





The deadline for submitting papers is December 14, 2007.



All authors will be notified by January 15, 2008.  Projections,  
Volume 8 is scheduled to be published by June 2008.



Submissions must be made electronically to: projections at mit.edu



Authors are invited to submit full papers between 5,000 and 7,000  
words, shorter briefs or observations between 1,000 and 3,000 words,  
design conceptualizations, and photographic exhibitions.  All  
submissions should be written according to the American Psychological  
Association’s Publications Manual.  Please double-space the  
manuscript and leave one-inch margins on all sides.  All notes,  
tables, and images should be placed at the end of the document.   
Images should be provided in .TIF format, not exceeding a width of 5  
inches and a resolution of 600 dpi (a width of 3000 pixels).  Include  
a cover sheet with the title of the article, the author’s name, phone  
number, email address, and a two-sentence biographical statement.





For more information, please contact the editorial team for  
Projections, Volume 8:



Isabelle Anguelovski (ianguelo at mit.edu)

Anna Livia Brand (analivia at mit.edu)

Rachel Healy (rhealy at mit.edu)



-- 
Rachel Healy
PhD Candidate
Environmental Policy and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
rhealy at mit.edu


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