This is a guest post by Joël Houdet, Senior Research Fel­low at African Cen­tre for Tech­nol­ogy Stud­ies (ACTS), Johan­nes­burg (South Africa). For any fur­ther infor­ma­tion, please con­tact Joël directly. 

Call for issue papers: Respon­si­ble Nat­ural Resource Economies in Africa. The African Cen­ter for Tech­nol­ogy Stud­ies (ACTS) is invit­ing papers in sev­eral the­matic areas for the Respon­si­ble Nat­ural Resources Economies (RNRE) programme.

Abstract sub­mis­sion is open until Decem­ber 15, 2014

Four the­matic areas

1. Nat­ural cap­i­tal / ecosys­tem account­ing & val­u­a­tion for improved pub­lic and pri­vate poli­cies, decision-making and practices.
2. Sus­tain­able land-use plan­ning and decision-making in Africa.
3. Trade agree­ments, for­eign invest­ments and cor­po­rate account­abil­ity in Africa.
4. Over­com­ing the resource curse: nat­ural resources and eco­nomic development.

Edi­tors: Dr. Cos­mas Ochieng, Dr. Joel Houdet

Impor­tant dates

Abstract sub­mis­sion dead­line: Decem­ber 15, 2014.

Accep­tance deci­sion: Jan­u­ary 12, 2015.

Full Issue Paper sub­mis­sion: March 16, 2015.

Pub­li­ca­tion in ACTS Press: May 26, 2015.

For more details, check out the Call for Papers on the ACTS offi­cial web­site or con­tact Joel Houdet.