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Call for papers: Modelling Related to Poverty and Human Development The Journal INDECS announces the special issue Modelling Related to Poverty and Human Development, to be released as INDECS 5(2). The motivation for that topic is to contribute to the Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development, initiated by the Council of Science Editors. In particular, science journals throughout the world will simultaneously publish papers on this topic of worldwide interest - to raise awareness, stimulate interest, and stimulate research into poverty and human development. Human Development and Poverty are situated within a complex web of factors of both local and global scale: environmental, political, economic, religious, personal and other. We are looking for papers that describe parts of this network and analyse the relationships between the many factors that play a part in poverty and human development. We hope that you will participate in this initiative by submitting articles for the special issue, in order to help shed some light on these important issues. Both papers presenting original research as well as viewpoint and review articles, are invited. We do not wish to pose strict limits on length, but we do encourage authors not to use more words than the topic requires. Research methods we are interested in include (but are not limited to) simulations, agent based or otherwise, or other descriptive models of complex real-world systems. The target research areas could be any of a number of topics, that in some way relate to human development and poverty. For example, in no particular order: urbanisation, war, charity, over-fishing, trade, improved access to information, disease threats, recent liberalisation trends in utilities, public traffic, public health care, corruption, migration, human trafficking, energy demands. Insights in to the research methods themselves are also welcome, answering questions like: How to compare simulation results with data? Prospective authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of approximately 500 words by April 15, in order to enable us to give feedback in an early stage. The deadline for full papers is June 1, 2007, to allow sufficient time for review process. The common publication date for all the journals participating in this theme issue will be Monday, October 22, 2007. Joanna Bryson and Ivana Čače, Guest editors The official web site of the Scientific Journal INDECS can be found at: http://indecs.znanost.org/ Questions, comments and suggestions please send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last modified: 30 January, 2007.
