China Population and Development Studies - Call for Papers: Projections/analyses of Households and Living Arrangements, and Applications in Healthy Aging and Sustainable Development Studies
China Population and Development Studies (CPDS) is a Springer published flagship English scholarly peer-reviewed international journal and hosted by China Population and Development Research Center; CPDS addresses a broad range of topics related to population and development internationally (https://www.springer.com/journal/42379). CPDS announces a call for submissions of papers for a special issue that address “Projections/analyses of Households and Living Arrangements, and Applications in Healthy Aging and Sustainable Development Studies”
Guest Editors:
Yi Zeng, Professor of National School of Development, Honorary Director of Center for Healthy Aging and Development Study, Peking University; Professor, Center for Study of Aging and Human Development and Geriatrics Division, School of Medicine, Duke University; Member of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries; Foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Emily Grundy, Professor and former Director of Institute for Social and Economic Research,
University of Essex; Member of the British Academy and Member of the British Academy of Social Sciences
Junni Zhang, Associate Professor of National School of Development, Peking University
Topics to be included in this special issue:
In this special issue, we are looking for papers on one of the following topics related to any countries in the world:
(1) Analyses on past, present and future trends in families, households, living arrangements and the implications;
(2) Applications of family household analyses and projections in research on healthy aging, socio-economic planning, social status analyses, policy analyses, children’s education, elderly care needs/costs and other home-based services, big data analyses, market analyses, age-friendly housing, home-based energy-use (such as water, electricity and gas), environment protection, food, furniture, and vehicles, etc.;
(3) Household and living arrangement projections at sub-national and county/city levels;
(4) Policy analyses related to family households and living arrangements;
(5) Research progress in methodology, user-friendly software development and databases for probabilistic projections/analyses of households and living arrangements;
(6) Other related topics.
Deadline for submission of full papers to this special issue: August 31, 2024
Submission Instructions
Before submitting your manuscript, please make sure you have thoroughly reviewed the submission guidelines for CPDS (https://www.springer.com/journal/42379/submission-guidelines). The complete manuscript should be submitted through the CPDS online submission system (https://www.editorialmanager.com/cpds/default2.aspx). Kindly read the Tutorial for Authors, available on the system's homepage, before submitting your manuscript.
To ensure that you submit to the correct special issue, please select 'original article' from the drop-down menu during submission and clearly indicate this special issue on the Title Page of your manuscript. Reviewers should adhere to Springer Nature's and the journal's Peer-Review Policy. All submissions will undergo a peer review process. For technical inquiries regarding the submission of this special issue, please contact the CPDS editorial office at cpds2017@163.com.
Additionally, authors are required to prepare at least two documents: a Title Page and a Blinded Manuscript. Please make sure to specify on the Title Page that you are submitting to a special issue. This will help ensure that your manuscript is processed correctly.
Questions related to topics and contents etc. of this special issue should be directed to one of the guest editors: Prof. Yi Zeng (zengyi@nsd.pku.edu.cn), or Prof. Emily Grundy (emily.grundy@essex.ac.uk (this opens in a new tab)), or Associate Prof. Junni Zhang (zjn@nsd.pku.edu.cn).
This special issue is scheduled for publication on line by the end of 2024.