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Natural Resources Forum

A United Nations Sustainable Development Journal

Edited by:
David Le Blanc

Impact Factor: 0.792

Since 1976, the NRF, A United Nations Sustainable Development Journal has provided a platform for thoughtful contributions on the fields of natural resources management and sustainable development. Today, the aim of the NRF is to deliver cutting edge research on policy issues relevant to the sustainable development agenda.

The journal considers papers on all topics relevant to sustainable development. In addition, it dedicates series, issues and special sections to specific themes that are relevant to the current discussions of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD).

Articles must be based on original research and must be relevant to policy-making. Contributions that inform the global policy debate through pragmatic lessons learned from experience at the local, national, and global levels are encouraged.

Criteria for selection of submitted articles include:1) Relevance and importance of the topic discussed to sustainable development in general, both in terms of policy impacts and gaps in current knowledge being addressed by the article;2) Treatment of the topic that incorporates social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainable development, rather than focusing purely on sectoral and/or technical aspects;3) Articles must contain original applied material drawn from concrete projects, policy implementation, or literature reviews; purely theoretical papers are not entertained.

Apart from peer-reviewed articles, the journal includes Book Reviews and a 'Viewpoints' section where contributors present different perspectives on a particular topic.

Sustainable development practitioners are invited to register at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nrf in order to receive information regarding calls for papers and to make submissions. Queries or comments can be directed at nrforum@un.org.

TopNews and Announcements

NRF ARCHIVE NOW ONLINE

Online Content of NRF is now available back to Volume 1 All back issues of this journal are available online. Click here to browse contents and abstracts. For further information on how to access these articles please visit our Librarian Site.

CALLS FOR PAPERS

Series on Transport, Chemicals, Waste Management, Mining and Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns
The August 2009 issue launches a series that focuses on the themes of the 18th and 19th sessions of the CSD: mining, sustainable consumption and production transport, waste management, and chemicals management. This series will run through May 2011. See Call for Papers for further details.

Special Issue on Transport
The November 2010 issue will be a Special Issue on Transport. Please see Call for Papers for further details.

LATEST ISSUES

NOVEMBER 2009 Special issue on climate change and development.

AUGUST 2009 Featuring articles on small-scale mining, water-point management, and sustainable agriculture practices, foreign direct investment in Africa and technology transfers for climate change. FREE What drives large South African corporations to invest in sub-Saharan Africa? CEO's perspectives and implications for FDI policies Adriaan Dippenaar

MAY 2009 This issue includes papers on wetland development, water degradation, sustainable livelihoods in woodlands and rural landscapes, and agricultural and property right policies. Featured article: FREE Working wetland potential: An index to guide the sustainable development of African wetlands Matthew P. McCartney, Helen A. Houghton-Carr

FREE FEBRUARY 2009 Special Issue on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Water Stressed Environments This issue brings together scholarly papers on the theory and practice of IWRM and its relevance to Sustainable Development.

FREE Virtual Issue on Climate Change This issue is an updated compilation of Climate Change papers published in the NRF.

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Free Online Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) in conjunction with UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme.