Canadian Association of Planning Students – L'Association Canadienne des Étudiants en Aménagement et en Urbanisme

Conference goers! Be sure to attend the CAPS-ACEAU 2010 AGM on Friday, February 5th from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m to cast your vote.  Click the logos to have a look at the bids.

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Environmentalist, writer, activist, lawyer, and leader of the Green Party of Canada, Elizabeth May will be joining CAPS-ACÉAU 2010 for a special address via Skype during the Thursday opening address.  See Ms. May’s bio and check out the program for more details on this and other exciting events.

If you go to conferences for the parties and social events (and who doesn’t, right?), you won’t be disappointed by this year’s plans for Guelph 2010.  Events will be held every evening during the three-day conference.  And these are just the formally planned parties!  Meet you in Guelph!

The Canadian Association of Planning Students – L’Association Canadienne des Étudiants en Aménagement et en Urbanisme 2010 conference program is now available at caps-aceau.org.  Featuring two dozen exciting speakers, over 40 student oral and poster presentations, mobile workshops, a peak oil and climate change scenario exercise, a special all-delegates creative conversation, with parties and social events every evening!

This year’s opening key note speaker is Guillermo (Gil) Peñalosa, an international leader in creating great cities and communities through active public spaces.  Gil is the former Commissioner of Parks, Sport and Recreation for the City of Bogotá, Colombia and the current Executive Director at Walk and Bike for Life.  Our closing address is from Matthew Blackett, publisher, creative director and one of the founders of the über-cool Spacing magazine.

Plan your conference experience now by reading through the list of speakers, and downloading your handy schedule at a glance and student presentation guide.

For those who haven’t yet registered, only two more days until the final deadline!  Get your registration form in the mail by January 21st.  See you in Guelph!

So you’re all registered for CAPS-ACEAU 2010, the hotel is booked, your presentation ready to go and your favourite speakers and sessions are highlighted in your program.  But how does one get to Guelph?  Click here for more details on getting to, in and around Guelph and the conference.  Save on your annual carbon emission output and 10% off your ticket price if you book through VIA Rail.  See the Guelph section of this website for more details.

If you haven’t registered, don’t delay!  The deadline is January 21st.  Click here!

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One week left to save $25 on your CAPS-ACEAU 2010 conference registration fee!  Early birds pay only $75 while regular bird registrations received after December 1st cost $100.  Go to caps-aceau.org/registration

The deadline for to submit your research proposal to present at CAPS 2010 is also December 1st.  Check out caps-aceau.org/proposals

CAPS-ACEAU 2010 received this email from Dr. Angela T. Ragusa, the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Rural Society in Australia inviting conference attendees to submit manuscripts for publication in their journal.  For any planning students with research interests that tend toward the rural, the next deadline is 20 December for publication in 2010, but articles are always welcome.  Check out
http://rsj.e-contentmanagement.com/.

From Dr. Ragusa:

Rural Society welcomes manuscript submissions demonstrating original research that draws upon appropriate theoretical frameworks and employs sound social science (health science, behavioural science, environmental science) research methodology.  Manuscripts may explore a broad-range of globally-relevant issues relating to social problems and/or community sustainability/well-being that will interest rural and regional populations.

Manuscripts are presently being sought for social science research that explores rural issues from disciplinary or multidisciplinary perspectives relating to: communication & media, criminology, cultural studies, demography & population studies, drugs, ecology & environment, economics, education, ethnicity & indigenous studies, governance, health, history, law, management, organisations, permaculture, planning, policy & politics, psychology, science & technology, skills, social work, sociology, sustainability, tourism, waste management, welfare.

Timeline for submissions for the next general issue:
20 December 2009 – Manuscript submission deadline
30 April 2010 – Intended publication date

Publication & submission guidelines:

• Manuscripts may range from 4000–8000 words in length in addition to the abstract, which should range from 100–200 words;
• Manuscripts must be fully referenced using APA referencing style;
• Illustrations (tables, charts, photos [300 dpi], etc.) must be supplied as separate files;
• A statement that the article has not been submitted elsewhere must be included;
• A list of 8 keywords should be included immediately below the abstract
• Contact details, position, university/professional affiliations must be provided for all contributing authors immediately following the manuscript’s title. Please bold the author’s name who will serve as the key contact for communication.
• Any acknowledgments should be included below the list of keywords.
• Manuscripts should be submitted via the website:
• Upon acceptance, copyright must be transferred to the publisher.  However, moral rights are retained by the author(s). Details are available on website.
• Questions can be directed to the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Angela T. Ragusa at ruralsociety@csu.edu.au

Rural Society is a fully double-blind peer refereed journal published by eContent Management Pty Ltd, the Institute of Land Water & Society and the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at Charles Sturt University, Australia.  Published articles gain global exposure via indexing in Thomson-Gale databases including Web of Knowledge, EBSCO Host, ERIC and a range of aggregator databases.  Rural Society is in the Register of Refereed Journals and is recognised for Australian government research data collection purposes.