Environment and Urbanization ASIA
Environment and Urbanization ASIA aims to support the exchange of ideas and information in the fields of human settlements and the environment across Asia. Its audience is researchers, academicians, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), activists and students particularly in Asia. The journal hopes to stimulate conversation among this audience and international agency staff, students and researchers in the developed countries. Six core themes have been identified, based on recent trends in Asia: development, governance, poverty and pro-poor development, housing, finance and climate change. Environment and Urbanization ASIA publishes original research specific to Asian countries and complements Environment and Urbanization published by International Institute for Environment and Development and SAGE London.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be submitted to Dr Debolina Kundu, The Editor, Environment and Urbanization ASIA, National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi. E-mail: journals@niua.org
Environment and Urbanization ASIA journal aims at:
(i) Supporting the exchange of ideas, research outputs, intervention strategies and innovative solutions in the fields of urbanization, environment and human settlements across Asia, and
(ii) Informing and initiating dialogue and debate among researchers, policy makers and civil society on various subjects relevant to urbanization and environment in Asia.
The themes and topics covered in the journal include governance, finance, land, infrastructure, housing, migration, sprawl, climate change, green growth, inclusion and sustainability, and the inter-relationships between these aspects of urbanization and environment.
This bi-annual, interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal is prepared and supported by the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) and published by SAGE Publications, India, in New Delhi.
| Debolina Kundu | Professor and HUDCO Chair, National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi, India |
| Pragya Sharma | National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi, India |
| Emma Porio | Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines |
| Atiq Kainan Ahmed | Programme Specialist Climate Change and Climate Risk Management (CCCRM), Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand |
| R B Bhagat | Professor and Head Department of Migration and Urban Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India |
| Amita Bhide | Professor and Dean, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India |
| Daniel Biau | Civil Engineer, Urban Planner, Former Deputy Executive Director of UN-Habitat |
| Somsook Boonyabancha | Secretary General, Asian Coalition for Housing Rights, Thailand |
| G Shabbir Cheema | Senior Fellow, Research Program Director, Asia Pacific Governance and Democracy Initiative, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA |
| Bharat Dahiya | Senior Lecturer, Bualuang ASEAN Fellow, College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand |
| C Michael Douglass | Professor, Asia Research Institute-Asian Urbanisms Cluster; Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Shreekant Gupta | Professor, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India |
| Scott Hawken | Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Adelaide, Australia |
| Nasir Javed | Chief Executive Officer, The Urban Unit, Planning and Development Department, Government of Punjab, Pakistan; Chief Editor, Pakistan Journal of Urban Affairs, Pakistan |
| Darshini Mahadevia | Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India |
| André Mueller | Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR), Berlin, Germany |
| Anjal Prakash | Associate Professor and Associate Dean, The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) School of Advanced Studies, Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
| Bo Qin | Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Management, School of Public Administration and Policy, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China |
| Bishwapriya Sanyal | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA |
| Remy Sietchiping | Leader, Regional and Metropolitan Planning Unit Urban Planning and Design Branch, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Nairobi, Kenya |
| Ravi S. Srivastava | Chairperson, IDS, Jaipur, Director, Centre for Employment Studies, IIHD, Former Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Sara Stace | Manager Walking and Cycling Strategy at Transport for New South Wales, Chair of the Urban Mobility Task Force for Smart Cities Council ANZ, Australia |
| Wang Yiti | Associate Professor, China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, Beijing, China |
Environment and Urbanization ASIA will consider original manuscripts not previously published or currently under consideration elsewhere. Contributions to conferences and workshops are welcome, as long as they are not published in the same form in conference proceedings or on the internet. The journal publishes articles under the following categories: research articles, policy analyses, regional and conference reports, and book reviews. Manuscripts must meet minimum standards in terms of relevance and clarity before they are sent for external peer review.
Authors will be notified of decisions regarding acceptance, rejection, or revision of articles only after both the internal and the external peer review processes. The internal review will take 6 weeks and the peer review will take 6 to 8 additional weeks.
Manuscript Submission: Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be addressed to: The Editor, Dr. Debolina Kundu , Environment and Urbanization ASIA, National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi. Email: journals@niua.org. Please mention Manuscript for Submission in the subject line.
Declaration of conflicting interests
Environment and Urbanisation ASIA encourages authors to include a declaration of any conflicting interests and recommends you review the good practice guidelines on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
Publication ethics
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway
Guidelines specified in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) must be followed.
- Contributors must provide their affiliation, complete postal and email addresses and fax and telephone numbers with their articles.
- It is the author’s responsibility to disclose any potential conflict of interest regarding the manuscript.
- Articles should be no longer than 8,000 words, inclusive of abstract, references, notes, tables and figures. Book reviews should be no longer than 1,575 words.
- Articles must be accompanied by an abstract of 150–200 words.
- The authors should provide four to seven keywords that reflect the important points of the articles (for example: urban planning; urban development; risk reduction; risk management).
- All figures, i.e., diagrams, images and photographs, and tables should be provided separate from the text at the end and numbered in the order that they appear in text. Locations of tables and figures should be indicated in the text using callouts (e.g., insert Table 1 here) inserted after the respective paragraphs. Each figure and table should have a heading, an explanatory caption if necessary, and a source or reference in a separate file.
- Images should be provided in TIFF/JPEG format. For line art, images must be at least 1,200 dots per inch (dpi); for grayscale, images must be at least 300 dpi.
- Notes should be numbered serially, the numbers embedded in the manuscript. The notes should be presented at the end of the article. Notes must contain more than a mere reference.
- Use British spellings rather than American spellings (‘labour’ not ‘labor’, ‘centre’ not ‘center’; universalize in ‘-ize’ and ‘-ization’ words).
- Use single quotes throughout. Double quotes should only be used within single quotes. Spellings of words in quotations should not be changed. Quotations of 45 words or more should be separated from the text and indented with a line space above and below.
- Use ‘nineteenth century’, ‘1980s’. Spell out numbers from one to nine, 10 and above to remain in figures. However, for exact measurements use only figures (3 km, 9 per cent not %). Use thousands and millions (instead of lakhs and crores).
- Use of italics and diacriticals should be minimized, but used consistently. Avoid excessive use of italics for emphasis, but use it for book titles, journal names, and foreign words.
- Avoid the use of abbreviations in the text. Common abbreviations such as i.e. or e.g. can be used only in parentheses.
- A consolidated alphabetical list of all books, articles, essays and theses referred to (including any referred to in the tables, graphs and maps) in the text should be provided at the end of the article. Sources for tables and figures should accompany the table or figure. If more than one publication by the same author is listed, the items should be given in chronological order.
References to other works should be provided in the text using citations written in the author-date method.
Author-date method: Follow the author-date method of in-text citation, e.g., (Jones, 1998).
Quotes: When directly quoting from a work, include the page number in the citation.
Citation styles:
1. One Work by One Author: (Walker, 2000)
2. One Work by Multiple Authors: (Walker and Wasserstein, 2000)
3. Two or More Works by Different Authors in One Citation: (Balda, 1980; Kamil, 1988; Pepperberg & Funk, 1990)
4. Two or More Works by the Same Author(s) in One Citation: (Edeline & Weinberger, 1991, 1993)
5. Two or More Works Published in the Same Year by the Same Author(s): (Johnson, 1991a, 1991b, 1991c)
References
A consolidated listing of all books, articles, essays, theses and documents referred to (including any referred to in the tables, graphs and maps) should be provided at the end of the paper.
Inverted names: In each reference, authors’ names should be inverted (last name first) for all authors (first, second or subsequent ones); give the last name and initials for all authors of a particular work unless the work has more than six authors. If the work has more than six authors, list the first six authors and then use ‘et al.’ after the sixth author’s name.
Arrangement of references: Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work.
Chronological listing: When there are more than one work by the same author(s), list them in order by the
year of publication, starting with the earliest.
Reference styles:
1. Book
Calfee, R.C., & Valencia, R.R. (1991). APA guide to preparing manuscripts for journal publication. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
2. Article in an edited book
O’Neil, J.M., & Egan, J. (1992). Men’s and women’s gender role journeys: Metaphor for healing, transition, and transformation. In B.R. Wainrib (Ed.), Gender issues across the life cycle (pp. 107–23). New York: Springer.
3. Conference Proceedings
Schnase, J.L., & Cunnius, E.L. (Eds). (1995). Proceedings from CSCL ‘95: The First International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
4. Article from the web
Bernstein, M. (2002). 10 tips on writing the living Web. A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, 149. Retrieved from http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writeliving
5. Journal Article
Scruton, R. (1996). The eclipse of listening. The New Criterion, 15(30), 5–13.
6. Newspaper Article
Schultz, S. (2005, December 28). Calls made to strengthen state energy policies. The Country Today, pp. 1A, 2A.
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Declaration of conflicting interests