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Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Edited by:
Warwick E. Murray

Asia Pacific Viewpoint is a journal of international scope, particularly in the fields of geography and its allied disciplines. Reporting on research in East and South East Asia, as well as the Pacific region, coverage includes:

• the growth of linkages between countries within the Asia Pacific region, including international investment, migration, and political and economic co-operation
• the environmental consequences of agriculture, industrial and service growth, and resource developments within the region
• first-hand field work into rural, industrial, and urban developments that are relevant to the wider Pacific, East and South East Asia
• theoretical research demonstrating the utility of concepts and frameworks for understanding of development patterns within the Asia Pacific region.

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Call for papers

Aiming to continue the high standards of scholarship set by Pacific Viewpoint since 1960, Asia Pacific Viewpoint continues to address the economic, social and political geography of change in the Asia Pacific region. Maps and photographs are encouraged.

The editors would like to encourage papers on:

• economic and social development of countries in the region, including international investment and migration

• economic relationships between those countries, including the consequences of industry, service and resource developments

• the relationship between the environment and development

• the interaction of countries in the region

• the concept of the Asia Pacific region as an economic and socio-political entity

• the environmental preconditions and consequences of development initiatives in the region

• the impacts of globalisation on the social, economic, cultural and environmental systems of the Asia Pacific region and the implications of this for geographical theory and practice.

All papers will be subject to double-blind refereeing. Detailed instructions on how to submit your manuscript are available online.

Free online access to institutions in the developing world
Access to this journal is available free online within institutions in the developing world through the AGORA Initiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

TopHighlights

Read the top 5 Asia Pacific Viewpoint articles accessed online:

• Dutiful tourism: Encountering the Cambodian genocide (December 2008)
  Rachel Hughes

• Power over, power to, power with: Shifting perceptions of power for local economic development in the Philippines (December 2008)
  Amanda Cahill

• Taking post-development theory to the field: Issues in development research, Northern Thailand (December 2008)
  Katharine McKinnon

• Losing ground? Tuvalu, the greenhouse effect and the garbage can (August 2003)
  John Connell

• Female transnational migration, religion and subjectivity: The case of Indonesian domestic workers (December 2008)
  Catharina P. Williams

Last updated 5 February 2010.