Journals directly related to rural social research
Rural Society is a journal of rural social issues, published three times a year by the Centre for Rural Social Research at Charles Sturt University. It is a fully refereed academic journal, but designed to be accessible to a broad readership. Topics covered in Rural Society have included the rural media; small town development; rural gender issues; agricultural restructuring; heritage and tourism; youth and ageing in rural areas and many other rural related topics. Articles from the print version of Rural Society are available on the journal's website.
Sustaining Regions
Sustaining Regions is a new style and type of journal about the places where we work, live, use services and socialise. It is about the environment we live in, and how that changes over time and by location. The title, Sustaining Regions, reflects the fact that it is the regions that sustain us environmentally, socially and economically, and that we in turn need to sustain them and their well-being.
Australasian Journal of Regional Studies
The Australasian Journal of Regional Studies is a refereed journal published by the Aust & NZ Regional Science Assoc., which is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of efficient and effective regional development policies through research education and the discussion of ideas. Its interests cover a wide range of Australian and international issues including economics, regional and urban planning, geographical sciences, modelling, demography, transportation, market organisation, resource management, environment and tourism. Submissions which fall within this scope are welcome..
Sociologia Ruralis is a journal of the European Society for Rural Sociology. It reflects the diversity of European social-science research on rural areas and related issues. The complexity and diversity of rural problems require multi and interdisciplinary approaches. Over the past 40 years Sociologia Ruralis has been an international forum for social scientists engaged in a wide variety of disciplines focusing on social, political and cultural aspects of rural development. Sociologia Ruralis covers a wide range of subjects, ranging from farming, natural resources and food systems to rural communities, rural identities and the restructuring of rurality.
Rural Sociology is a journal of the North American Rural Sociology Society. Published since 1937, RURAL SOCIOLOGY reaches an international audience of social scientists, policy makers, and agency professionals concerned with rural people, places, and problems. It provides a forum for cutting edge research that explores inter-disciplinary approaches to emerging issues, new approaches to older questions and material, and policy relevant discussions of rural development, environmental impacts, the structure of food and agricultural production, and rural-urban linkages. In addition to its long-time interest in sociological approaches to rural policy challenges, RS also emphasizes a variety of other issues such as community revitalization and rural demographic changes.
Agriculture and Human Values <>is the official journal of the Ag, Food and Human Values Society. Like the Society, it seeks to create educational and scholarly affiliations among the humanities, the social sciences, food and nutrition studies, and the agricultural disciplines, and to promote an ethical, social, and ecological understanding of agricultural and food systems.
The journal publishes papers that critically question the values that underlie and the relationships that characterize both conventional and alternative approaches to the agrifood system - from production, processing, distribution, access, and use to waste management. Of particular interest are papers that explore the differential impacts of ag- and food-related institutions, policies, and practices on human populations and the environment. The journal also publishes book reviews and field reports on related topics.Manuscripts focusing on the journal's main themes are welcome. They should address a general academic readership while maintaining high standards of scholarship.
Journal of Rural Studies
The Journal of Rural Studies publishes research articles relating to such rural issues as society, demography, housing, employment, transport, services, land-use, recreation, agriculture and conservation. The focus is on those areas encompassing extensive land-use, with small-scale and diffuse settlement patterns and communities linked into the surrounding landscape and milieux. Particular emphasis will be given to aspects of planning policy and management. The journal is international and interdisciplinary in scope and content.
Geographical Research
Published four times a year, Geographical Research, formerly Australian Geographical Studies is Australia's flagship journal of professional geography. Contributions to the journal are particularly invited on the geography of Australia and its Pacific, Asian and Antarctic neighbourhoods and on the nature, methods and study of geography, interpreted its widest sense. As well as major research articles, the journal also publishes shorter contributions. These include Commentaries, Research Notes and Teaching Notes.
Australian Geographer
Australian Geographer was founded in 1928 and is the nation's oldest geographical journal. It is a high standard, refereed general geography journal covering all aspects of the discipline, both human and physical. While papers concerning any aspect of geography are considered for publication, the journal focuses primarily on two areas of research:
(1) Australia and its world region, including developments, issues and policies in Australia, the western Pacific, the Indian Ocean, Asia and Antarctica.
(2) Environmental studies, particularly the biophysical environment and human interaction with it.
From time to time the Australian Geographer publishes collections of shorter papers as symposia on particular topics. Examples include: Rural geographies (March 02); Geographies of prosperity along Australia's eastern seaboard (Nov 02); Gendered geographies (Nov 98); Australia and international environment agreements (May 1995); Industry, employment and regions: geographical perspectives on Working Nation (Nov 94).Papers dealing with international issues, or with nations other than Australia and those within its region, must have an Australian, Asian or Pacific perspective or deal with implications for Australia or its neighbours. Papers addressing theoretical and philosophical issues in geography are also sought. Preference will be given to papers which have a broad appeal to geographers, geography educators and people in cognate areas including Australian studies and environmental studies.
Society and Natural Resources
Bringing together social science research on present and emerging environmental and natural resource issues, Society and Natural Resources provides a forum for scientific, refereed research that underlies management decisions on natural resource development from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary social science perspectives.The knowledge base focuses on natural resource management issues, including biological and physical changes, such as: acid rain; biological and genetic diversity in worldwide agriculture; hazardous and solid waste disposal; and forest, fishery, soil, and water degradation.
International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture & Food is an official publication of the Research Committee on Sociology of Agriculture and Food (RC40) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and is published under the auspices of the Florida Atlantic University , the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CSAFE), School of Social Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand). The on-line journal publishes theoretical and empirical papers in the general area of the sociology of agriculture and food. This includes the study of labor, production, market, policy, technology, and global and local change. Manuscripts are subject to external review before a final judgment on publication is made by the editors.
Journal of Agricultural Education & Extension
The JAEE aims to publish authoritative and well-referenced scientific articles on the dynamics in innovation support structures, and on the human aspects of change trajectories. It considers articles dealing with a broad spectrum of problem fields and approaches, without confining itself to specific theoretical, methodological or political lines. The JAEE strives to reach wider audiences of academics, researchers and professionals interested in multi-disciplinary issues regarding communication, competence development, education, extension, human resource development, learning, skills development and work-related education for innovation in agriculture, environmental management, fisheries, food production, nature management, rural development, natural resource use, and related domains.
Environmental Impact Assessment Review is a refereed, interdisciplinary journal serving an international audience of practitioners, policy-makers and academics. This audience assesses the environmental impact of policy, projects, processes and products and makes decisions based upon these assessments. The aim of the journal is to build the knowledge base for this audience through reporting of innovative research, practice and publications. EIA Review aims to publish only pieces that are coherent, innovative and topical.
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal is the international, peer-reviewed journal of the International Association for Impact Assessment. It covers environmental, social, health and other impact assessments, cost-benefit analysis, technology assessment, and other approaches to anticipating and managing impacts. It has readers in universities, government and public agencies, consultancies, NGOs and elsewhere in over 100 countries. It has editorials, main articles, book reviews, and a professional practice section.
The Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society (AJETS) is a multi-disciplinary journal, focusing on the complex relationship between science and technology and their wider socio-cultural contexts. Perhaps more importantly, AJETS is designed as a forum for informed discussion and debate about the role of technology in society, drawing on a variety of viewpoints from all branches of the social and behavioural sciences and humanities. As a web-only publication AJETS offers several benefits not normally found in print-based journals. For authors, AJETS provides a peer-reviewed outlet for scholarly papers, without the long lag between submission and publication. The pace of technological development is so rapid that in many cases pieces published in traditional media are outdated by they time they reach the reader. A web-based journal can circumvent this to some extent, with the submission-to-publication timeframes being as short as two months in some cases.
