Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the *World Development *editorial team I would like to kindly invite you to consider the following Special Issue call that we have now put together: ‘Pandemics, COVID19, Sustainability and Development’ <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-development/call-for-papers/special-issue-of-world-development-on-pandemics-covid19> Please feel free to forward it to anyone you think might be interested. Thank you, kind regards, Jampel -------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers for a Special Issue of World Development on “Pandemics, COVID19, and Sustainability and Development” ------------------------------ Pandemics affect poverty, sustainability and development in ways that are unsuspected to obvious. The Covid19 pandemic, like the 1918-19 and 1957 flu pandemics, will kill hundreds of thousands, has devastated national to household economies, and will present unprecedented shock to trajectories of development and sustainability for years. Inadequate testing and diagnoses, coupled with thoroughly flawed responses by governments and donors alike, mean that the true scale of its devastation will be known only retrospectively if at all. This historical moment is as important for development as it is incredible - who would have imagined a global lockdown even three months ago? *World Development* calls for contributions to a special issue on *‘Pandemics, COVID19, Sustainability and Development’ *in an effort to bring the best thinking and research on the subject to our readers. We expect the issue to cover a broad range of topics. These include themes related to the emergence of pandemics, how they unfold, responses to the multifarious threats they pose, and the immediate to longer term effects as these concern households, societies, ecosystems, and nation states. We welcome papers that among other topics address questions about political and institutional preparedness and the role of expertise, to supply chains and intersectoral impacts, to testing, treatment, and vaccine development, to employment, recessions, and economic downturns, to agriculture industrial and service professions, to health, educational, and wellbeing outcomes. The themes mentioned here do not exhaust the myriad ways that pandemics affect development and sustainability outcomes. We view them as indicators of how pandemics and public health need far greater attention in contemporary thinking about development and sustainability. *Submission Types and Procedures* We will accept four types of manuscripts. Consider submitting (1) Regular Research Articles (4.5K-10K words, 25-50 references), (2) Research Notes based on rapid analyses of preliminary data or cases (2.5K-3.5K words, 25-50 references), (3) Viewpoints/Policy Forum/Opinions - (1.5K-2K words, 20-30 references), and (4) Letters on urgent/issues (600-750 words, 5-10 references). Indicated word length does not include references or endnotes. All submissions should be based on primary or secondary evidence and be situated in the relevant literature. The first two submission types will be sent out for external review; the latter two forms will be reviewed by *World Development* editors. We expect to provide decisions on regular research articles and research notes within 12 weeks of submission. For Viewpoints/Policy Forum/Opinion pieces, and Letters, we will provide a final decision within 2 to 3 weeks. *World Development** expects to publish the Special Issue by August 15 2020. We will accept submissions until May 31 2020. * *All published papers will be available as open access for at least 6 months or as long as the COVID19 pandemic lasts.* *_________________________________________________________* Dr. Jampel Dell’Angelo, *NEWAVE Principal Investigator & Coordinator* *World Development* Associate Editor *Asst. Professor of Water Governance,* Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. *Research Affiliate,* Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management (ESPM), University of California, Berkeley. Skype: jdellangelo; Personal page <https://www.ivm.vu.nl/en/people-new/researchers/department-environmental-policy-analysis/dell-angelo/index.aspx> ; Publications <https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=eQBr5i0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao> Our documentary on: videos4water <http://videos4water.org/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CABp_anYy-KLmws%2BfgX2-EQ_6iGS939%3DgP5HXXccYiNzZm2gdyQ%40mail.gmail.com.
