Locally-focused issues continue to emerge rapidly with key interest by the public, nonprofit and even private sectors as well as by citizen groups seeking to encourage more healthy and sustainable sources of livelihoods, culture, and foods in their communities and regions. At the same time, local systems connote changes in social and economic systems (participation, empowerment, health impacts, livelihoods and other economic impacts), and vice versa. Simply put, localization is the process of adapting or adopting changes in a product, content, process, or policy for a specific area or locale.
Local Development and Society brings together these domains across social and economic systems. Interest in localism is on the rise around the world, and we seek to create a repository of cross-disciplinary academic research in local contexts that will be integrated with national, provincial, state, and community practices.
The journal will explore potentials and limitations of local growth and test evidence from academic research and practice against relevance in local societies. The journal supports theoretical and empirical research in a diversity of local contexts, with the aim of strengthening universities and organizations that produce research about communities’ development and society. Areas of interest include but are not limited to planning, geography, economics, sociology and other disciplines.
The scope is global and of interest to diverse social scientists, planners, researchers, policy makers, students, and practitioners. While this journal builds on Community Development, the journal of the Community Development Society, it is very interdisciplinary in scope and seeks to encourage scholarship on the broad expanse of local development and society.
Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.
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