Contribution invited from Social Scientists

Green Eminent - Research Centre, invites contributions in form of project briefs, papers and data for its upcoming publications on the Public Social Development Reports of states of India (2010 AD). Likely to be published in March 2010. Authors are request to submit the papers and reports concerning their areas of study in typed format with resumes. Selected contributors for the reports would be paid a token remuneration for their contribution. Please note the following dates
25th Novembers 2009- Abstracts (200 words)
10th December 2009 - Intimation to Authors
15th February 2010- Full Paper
30th February-2010-Peer Review (Register your self as reviewers by sending resume)
15th March 2010-Draft Publication (online)
31st March 2010 - Final Publication (Free Public Access)
Note: All Papers and communication can be done through this blog or mail to gercbrd@gmail.com
Area of Interest: Rural Development, Regional Development, Urban Planning, Geoinformatics, Industrial Growth, Decentralised Planning, Sustainable development, Climate Change, Environmental Status, Peoples Participation etc.

ASSIGNMENTS FOR GIS/RS Semister I

Problem Statement:
Prepare a System Design Document for a department - the system design should be part of the Geographical Information System, inclusive of System Input (Data and Information required), System Process (Analytical) and System Output (Maps, Charts, Reports etc.).

For the system design you must start with decision to be taken for the departments. Example for the system design departments can be - Urban Planning, Water Supply, Property Tax, Forest, Transport, Fire Brigade/Disaster Management, Housing /Estate, Environment Management, Public Health etc.

Submission Format:
Use sheet of paper for representing system design in Flow diagram, indicating the various items or functions, relationship between the items. You may submitt the diagram in A3 or A4 sheets.

Submission Deadline : 29th October 2009, mail me at; gercbrd@gmail.com

Shashikant Kumar

Urban Planning - Research Journals

Some of the important research publications are done by Routledge, United Kingdom, You may visit following links

Urban Policy and Research - www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cupr

Journal of Urbanism - www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rjou

Cities: Analysis of urban Trends, Culture, Thoery, Policy, action - www.tandef.co.uk/journals/ccit

I had ordered some sample copies. It would be our liberary from December onwards. You may also visit the site for sample copies.

IUSSP Conference on Population concludes in Marrakech (Morocco)

Merrakech (3rd October), The XXVU IUSSP international conference on population concludes with concerns expressed on the plenary held on the population and environment, specifically targetting the general views expressing the inability of world to address the issues concerning the environments, had called demographers to participate in the climate change studies in the world. The conference has more than 2400 participants, dicussing various research themes in more than 220 regular paper discussion sessions and poster presentations. To learn more about the conference please visit: http://www.iussp.org/

Mr. Shashikant Kumar, Director, Green Eminent - Research Centre, attended the conference.