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Subject:         _Geography Compass_ is now Calling for Proposals
Date:   Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:01:32 -0400
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Subject: Blackwell's Geography Compass is now Calling for Proposals


NEW FROM BLACKWELL IN 2007!
BLACKWELL GEOGRAPHY COMPASS
Peer-reviewed survey articles from across the discipline

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Geography Compass launched a Call for Proposals at the Association for
American Geographers annual meeting last month. You are invited to submit
proposals for survey articles for this new online journal covering all
areas of geography.

Editors-in-Chief: Mike Bradshaw, University of Leicester
Basil Gomez, Indiana State University

Geography Compass aims to provide authoritative, peer-reviewed surveys of
recent scholarship for non specialists in any area of physical and human
geography. It will not publish research articles.

Interested in submitting a proposal?
Geography Compass offers authors:
Fast publication, typically 8 weeks from acceptance of final version
a citable, peer-reviewed article, with a permanent URL
a wide, international audience through a global medium
a free PDF off-print of your article
your own profile page on the site
free individual access to the site
usage statistics for your article

If you would like to submit your article to Geography Compass, please send
an abstract for your article to: Mike Bradshaw, [log in to unmask] or
Basil Gomez [log in to unmask]

Geography Compass is calling for proposals for each of its 13 sections
below. The journal welcomes papers from any area of the discipline. If you
would like to submit a proposal but feel your paper may be outside of the
remit of any of these sections please contact one of the Editors-in-Chief
at the email addresses above, who can advise you on the most suitable
section for your paper.

Economic Geography
Section Editor: Nick Henry, Newcastle University
GIS
Section Editors: Francis Harvey, University of Minnesota and Elizabeth
Wentz, Arizona State University
Social and Cultural Geography
Section Editor: To be announced
Climatology
Section Editor: Sue Grimmond, King's College London
Political Geography
Section Editor: Simon Dalby, Carelton University E
Earth Observations
Section Editor: Andrew Klein, Texas A & M University
Urban Geography
Section Editor: Phil Hubbard, Loughborough University
Geomorphology
Section Editor: André Roy, University of Montreal
Development
Section Editor: Cheryl McEwan, University of Durham
Global Environmental Change
Section Editor: To be announced
Environment and Society
Section Editor: Gary Brierley, University of Auckland
Hydrology & Water Resources
Section Editor: Murugesu Sivapalan, University of Illinois
Biogeography
Section Editor: Glen MacDonald, UCLA

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