Water special issue of 'Development' journal: CFP

Development is the flagship journal of the Society for International Development (SID) (www.sidint.org/development) published quarterly by Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Current editor, Wendy Harcourt, is an activist researcher based in Rome. Since 1957, Development has explored alternative perspectives on civil society, development policy, and community-based strategies for livelihoods, gender and social justice. It has a wide and varied international audience of activist researchers, academics, policy makers, members of community based and non-governmental organisations and the general public interested and working on development. Development is also interested in publishing short summaries (250 words) of networks and institutes working on water for the Window on the World Section and also short reviews of books (5–600 words) on water, case examples of community-based initiatives of water management and stories of water activism from around the world, and interviews with water activists.

Abstract and brief biopic: 4 May 2007