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Call for Papers: Sustainable Mobility in China and its Implications for Emerging Economies
The Journal of Sustainable Mobility
Greenleaf Publishing
www.greenleaf-publishing.com/jsm
Guest Editors: Professor Fuquan Zhao and Dr Han Hao, Tsinghua University, China
Editor-in-Chief: Michael Zhang, Nottingham Business School, UK
After three decades of rapid economic growth, China became the world's second largest economy in 2010 after the USA. Along with the prospect of lifting millions out of poverty and improving living standards, China is facing yet new challenges of rapid urbanization. Without strategic innovations in the automotive industry and transport management system the current state of China's transport sector is not sustainable. Long-term sustainable solutions are likely to emerge from the interplay of economic, environmental, social and technological factors.
This Special Issue of the Journal of Sustainable Mobility (JSM), partnered with the Second International Symposium on Sustainable Mobility, will focus on the issues of developing policies and corporate strategies to help the automotive industry, transport management systems, and urban planning to embark on a sustainable path to future growth and development.
The Special Issue invites contributions in, but not limited to, the following areas:
Regional development and urbanisation in China; socio-economic analysis of sustainable mobility; low-carbon vehicle technologies including battery-powered electric vehicles (bevs) fuel cell vehicles (fcvs), biofuel vehicles (bfvs) and hybrid electric vehicles (hevs); low-carbon intelligent transport systems; energy market and policy analysis; alternative energies including biofuels, natural gas-derived fuels, and clean coal-derived fuels; transport demand management and modal shift; corporate sustainability and sustainable mobility; global value chains for sustainable mobility; venture capital and the development of low-carbon vehicles; low-carbon designing, manufacturing and recycling in the automotive industry.
Submissions
We invite the submission of research papers, policy debates, case studies, and research notes. We encourage submissions from academics with a research-orientation and also business practitioners and policymakers from the public and private sectors.
Social Sciences papers can be 4,000-6,000 words, while Engineering and Technology papers should be 2,000-4,000 words. Initial expressions of interest in the form of abstracts of approximately 300 words are also welcomed by the editor prior to full submission.
Full paper submission deadline: 31 December 2014
Accepted papers will be published in May 2015 (JSM, Vol 2: Issue 1, SI)
Click here for full details, including submission guidelines, or visit www.greenleaf-publishing.com/jsm.
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