ESF/N-AERUS International Workshop Geneva, Palais des Nations - May 3-6, 2000 CITIES OF THE SOUTH: SUSTAINABLE FOR WHOM? FORMAT OF PROPOSALS AND PAPERS

Proposals/Abstracts: Contributors are invited to submit an 800 character abstract (10 lines) in English, French or Spanish as soon a possible but not later than 7 January 2000 to both Jean-Claude.Bolay@epfl.ch and westendorff@unrisd.org. The organizers will contact prospective authors by 21 January 2000 to inform them of whether the abstract should be elaborated into a two page proposal. On the basis of these, the organizers will respond quickly with a decision concerning acceptance of the proposal to submit a full paper. The proposals will be placed on the ESF/N-AERUS website for a limited time so that other members will be aware of your interests, even if a formal paper is not requested for the Workshop. Final papers should not exceed 25,000 characters (12 pages, single-spaced excluding notes, diagrams/tables and references). Authors are reminded that their contribution aims to stimulate a debate on the issues listed above. Accordingly, they are advisded to focus on key issues and questions. As all contributions will have to be accessible on the ESF/N-AERUS website 3 weeks before the Workshop, authors are requested to submit the final version of their paper in electronic form on April 7 at the latest. It is assumed that participants will have visited the ESF/N-AERUS website before the meeting and will be familiar with the content of the papers. In order to maximize the opportunity for open debate, an ESF/N-AERUS member will prepare an oral synthesis of the key presentations for each session. Papers will not be presented in full. The ESF/N-AERUS member responsible for the synthesis will, however, contact each contributor prior to the meeting to to inform him/or her of how his or her contribution is to be used. Dissemination of Conference Output: All papers that are accepted by the organizing committee will be placed on the ESF/N-AERUS WWW site in full text. They will also be cited in the conference report and may be included in an edited conference volume of the Oxfam journal, Development in Practice. The latter will be dependent upon space considerations and the quality of the paper after revisions requested by the editors. LANGUAGE OF THE WORKSHOP Languages of the workshop will be English and French (with simultaneous interpretation)

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N-AERUS: Network-Association of European Researchers on Urbanisation in the South
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