Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Elephants in the Pacific? Pacific urbanisation and its discontents by Professor John Connell, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Australia.

"Urbanisation has proved seemingly inexorable in the island Pacific in recent decades, yet has largely escaped critical attention. Urban growth has been associated with civil unrest, unemployment, crime, poverty, environmental degradation, traffic congestion (and heightened inequality), inadequate formal housing provision, the rise of the informal sector (and repressions of it), pressures on education, housing, health and other services such as water and garbage disposal, rather than with sustained economic growth..." continue reading the article by John Connell.

Aiming to continue the high standards of scholarship set by Pacific Viewpoint since 1960, Asia Pacific Viewpoint continues to address the economic, social and political geography of change in the Asia Pacific region. Maps and photographs are encouraged.

The editors would like to encourage papers on:

• economic and social development of countries in the region, including international investment and migration

• economic relationships between those countries, including the consequences of industry, service and resource developments

• the relationship between the environment and development

• the interaction of countries in the region

• the concept of the Asia Pacific region as an economic and socio-political entity

• the environmental preconditions and consequences of development initiatives in the region

• the impacts of globalisation on the social, economic, cultural and environmental systems of the Asia Pacific region and the implications of this for geographical theory and practice.

All papers will be subject to double-blind refereeing. Detailed instructions on how to submit your manuscript are available online.

Asia Pacific Viewpoint is a journal of international scope, particularly in the fields of geography and its allied disciplines. Reporting on research in East and South East Asia, as well as the Pacific region, coverage includes:

• the growth of linkages between countries within the Asia Pacific region, including international investment, migration, and political and economic co-operation
• the environmental consequences of agriculture, industrial and service growth, and resource developments within the region
• first-hand field work into rural, industrial, and urban developments that are relevant to the wider Pacific, East and South East Asia
• theoretical research demonstrating the utility of concepts and frameworks for understanding of development patterns within the Asia Pacific region.

Wishful sinking: Disappearing islands, climate refugees and cosmopolitan experimentation
Carol Farbotko

Building knowledge city in transformation era: Knowledge-based urban development in Beijing in the context of globalisation and decentralisation
Pengjun Zhao

Losing ground? Tuvalu, the greenhouse effect and the garbage can
John Connell

Recreating place, replacing memory: Creative destruction at the Singapore River
T.C. Chang and Shirlena Huang

Governing sex workers in Timor Leste
Carol Harrington

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