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Special Issues, 2008

Call for Rural Politics and Policy

The Online Journal of Rural Research and Policy, a peer-reviewed web journal focused on the issues and policies of the Great Plains, is calling for articles addressing political science and rural communities. Suggested topics range across rural political organizations, political phenomena in rural environments, rural influence in state and federal policy, farm policy, feedyard policy, transportation, rural consolidation, environmental politics, water rights, and transmigrational communities. This is not intended as a defining list of areas. The journal is open to papers in any area dealing with rural issues. Traditional research-based articles, law and policy papers, as well as essays and "think pieces" are welcome.

Call for Rural Development Special Issue

The Online Journal of Rural Research and Policy, a peer-reviewed web journal focused on the issues and policies of the Great Plains, is
calling for research articles addressing rural development and community sustainability. Suggested possible topics could include rural economic growth, role of natural amenities and tourism in rural areas, rural landscape and cultural heritage, natural resource extraction, community development, rural population change, bio-energy production, transmigrational integration and ethnic change, technology and rural community social structure, and the role of agriculture in rural development. These topics are examples, and acknowledging the complexity of rural development, the journal is open to papers in any area dealing with rural issues.