Special Issues
A special edition of the Journal can take any of several forms, the basic idea being to join forces with some group, movement, problem area or event to create a dedicated publication that can reach out beyond the usual limits of WTP&P circulation and readership to achieve some broader audience and objectives. Since these invovle editorial and production resources that are usually far beyond those that are available to the Journal for a normal issue, each specical issue require some form of sponsorship and other forms of support. Thus far we have produced two such issues, for which you will find further information below.
Do you have an idea for a special issue? an event that might lead itself to collaboration along these lines? As long as it involves topics and approaches which run in parallel with our chosen mandate, we want to hear from you.
The March 1996 volume of WTP&P marked the first of our dedicated special editions
that are at once given over to a single topical theme and in parallel closely
integrated to a public interest program and series of events that support the
theme of sustainable transportation. In this case there was a cooperative sponsorship:
on the one hand from the Environment Directorate of the OECD and the Government
of Canada as sponsors of the March 1996 International Conference, Toward
Sustainable Transportation, and of the other, DG XIII (Communications) of
the European Commission. On that occasion the sponsors arranged to cover all
production costs of the special number, and to print 5000 additional copies
which were then distributed both at the Vancouver event and subsequently in
support of a number of meetings and events. This is a model of international
collaboration that we intend to continue to develop in support of the work of
the Journal and the challenges of sustainable transportation more generally.
If interested you can download an e-copy of that special edition from the WTP&P
library right here. Alternatively print copies of that publication can still
be obtained from the office of Dr.
Peter Johnston, DG XIII/B1, Telecommunications Program Preparation & Follow-up
of the European Commission.
A major international cooperative effort was undertaken to prepare
a special issue on our Car Sharing & Sustainable Transportation. This is a major international team effort under the leadership of Eric
Britton of EcoPlan, bringing together some two dozen major first-hand reports
on how this new area of transportation policy and practice is playing itself
out at the leading edge.
The costs of this issue were totally defrayed by Ecoplan and The Commons as part of their continuing search for ideas and innovations which can help us move toward more sustainable transportation systems. The 300 page edition that resulted is being distributed internationally in a partnership with the EST program of the Environment Directorate of the OECD and the German Federal Agency for the Environment (UBA) in Berlin.
For further details, including a detailed outline of the
contents and list of authors, go to CarSharing.
You may also find some interest in the CarShare '99 International Case Book,
the latest version of which is also freely available here in our @Library here.
Vol. 2, No. 1/2: Information Society & Sustainable Development
Vol. 5, No. 3: CarSharing & Sustainable Transportation
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