From:         Fred Melssen <U211610@HNYKUN11.BITNET>
Organization: Centre for Pacific Studies
Subject:      Announcement of the Journal of Political Ecology
Dear subscribers,
 
James B. Greenberg, editor of the new Journal of Political Ecology,
sent me the announcement of this new journal. I am glad to forward
this announcement to you, on his request.
 
/Fred Melssen  owner CPS-L and ETHNOHIS
 
 
                         Journal of Political Ecology
                   Case Studies in History and the Social Sciences
 
          Invites Submissions
 
             The Journal  of  Political Ecology is intended to fill  a  gap
          in the social sciences by bringing together researchers from many
          disciplines with a common interest in links between political and
          economic systems, on the one  hand,  and  local  populations  and
          ecosystems, on the other. We hope  to  promote  interdisciplinary
          dialogue and research on the interface between political  economy
          and ecology. The journal will be free to  readers  and  libraries
          world-wide via Internet. JPE will be available in  two  versions;
          an  on-line  and  searchable  extended  ASCII  version,   and   a
          professionally formatted version incorporating  graphics  in  the
          text, available through Internet by connecting to the  University
          of Arizona's library or  gopher  server  (see  below).  JPE  will
          incorporate graphics, typeset mathematical  expressions,  tables,
          and footnotes with output comparable to that of typeset journals.
          JPE will publish submissions in English, French, or Spanish (with
          article abstracts in  all  three  languages).  Authors  and  PESO
          members may obtain professionally formatted  paper "reprints"  of
          publications at cost from JPE.
             JPE will publish peer reviewed articles  and  research reports
          incrementally as part of an annual volume. JPE will  also  accept
          for publication book reviews and research abstracts.  These  will
          be posted on the JPE forum during the year and  appended  to  the
          annual volume in  December.  Articles  should  make  an  original
          theoretical  contribution  and  contain  substantive  case  study
          materials. Submissions will be considered in the research  report
          category if they contain significant findings from case  studies.
          We will publish short abstracts of on-going research relevant  to
          the key themes of the journal. The JPE  menu  will  also  provide
          access to a moderated  free  public  Forum  in  which  interested
          people may comment on JPE articles and  issues  of  relevance  to
          political ecology, read new posted materials or post  significant
          bibliographies, databases or political  ecology  news.    Readers
          are encouraged to join PESO (the  Political  Ecology  SOciety,  a
          society formed to support JPE whose monies  are  deposited  in  a
          University of Arizona account) which will provide  a  variety  of
          services and benefits.
             Articles received may, at the option of the author,  be posted
          electronically for comment until JPE receives the  final  version
          or rejects the article. Authors may respond to readers'  comments
          in the final versions of their articles. The editors'  policy  is
          to  have  a  response  to  the  author  within  three  months  of
          submission and to publish accepted materials within three  months
          of acceptance.  On  publication,  significant  comments  will  be
          appended to the article.
             The journal will be  a publication  of  the Bureau  of Applied
          Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona and guided  by  a
          board of  prominent  scholars  from  a  variety  of  disciplines.
          Enquiries  may  be  made  to  the  co-editors  in  hard  copy  or
          electronic form:
 
             Dr.James  Greenberg, B.A.R.A.,  University of Arizona, Tucson,
          Arizona 85721   (E-mail:JGreenber@ccit.arizona.edu)
 
             Dr.Thomas Park,   Department of  Anthropology,  University  of
          Arizona,  Tucson, Arizona 85721 (E-mail: TPark@ccit.arizona.edu).
 
             Full   information  for   authors  and  readers  is  available
          on-line (telnet sabio.arizona.edu).
 
              To login, type 'sabio'
 
          (in lowercase). At SABIO's main menu choose: Other databases  and
          remote libraries/ Internet Gopher/Resources by discipline /Social
          Sciences / Journal of political ecology.  Readers  may  also find
          information on the current route by doing a  title search for the
          Journal of  Political Ecology.  Other modes  of  access  such  as
          Anonymous FTP, Gopher  clients  are  described in detail in JPE's
          menu: Instructions on Accessing JPE and PESO.