Friday, June 26, 2009

Call for Papers: Climate Change and Simulation/Gaming

All you culinary arts and hospitality educators that have gone green here is your chance to get your first or next publication. A special edition of Simulation & Gaming, an international journal of theory, practice and research (Sage Publications), will focus on the numerous pedagogical and investigative methods employed to examine climate change methods that cross disciplines, from the natural and geo sciences, through the social sciences, to education. Climate change is a quintessential issue requiring rigorous analysis and careful understanding by scientists, educators, policy makes and global citizens.

Submissions are being requested from multiple disciplines and perspectives, employing a variety of methods to understand and teach a broad variety of climate change dimensions - process, causes, consequences and responses - social, economic and geopolitical impacts such as international migration, reconfiguration of states, poverty, trade wars, etc. Authors are being asked to submit articles that relate to climate change utilizing such methods as games, role-plays, simulations, experiential learning exercises, case studies; internet-based and digital games; modeling, game theory, computer simulation, etc.; virtual reality, augmented reality, virtual environments.

Proposals may submitted now through the end of 2009. Proposal will be reviewed within one month. Manuscripts will be published on line as articles are accepted. A printed symposium will be available after all articles are printed online, which is good news for those that may not want a publication but interested in the thoughts and research of others.

Proposals of one to two pages may be submitted electronically (.doc, not .docx). Proposals should contain your name, email, phone, fax, address, etc.; working title for proposed paper; and a set of objectives, an abstract and/or working plan. Proposals may be submitted to the Guest editors: Klaus Eisenack, University of Oldenburg, Germany, klaus.eisenack@uni-oldenburg.de, Mary Pettenger, Western Oregon University, USA, pettengm@wou.edu, Diana Reckien, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, reckien@pik-potsdam.de, Richard Warrick, International Climate Change Exchange, New Zealand, cearsr@waikato.ac.nz, Niki Young, Western Oregon University, USA, youngn@wou.edu.

Editor of Simulation and Gaming: A Sage Journal:
David Crookall, simulation.gaming@gmail.com

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