New Elsevier forestry journal

[David Goodman]

Just received this announcement from Elsevier. I'm not sure if we'll
subscribe--it is within our collecting scope, but it would not be easy to
persuade us to add an additional title from this publisher (especially
considering that 
it's announced as a companion to Forest Ecology and Management, which costs us $2315/yr).
> nnouncing a New Journal -- FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS
> 
> Elsevier Science and the European Forest Institute have 
> announced  their intention to collaborate in setting up a 
> new journal with the title Forest Policy and Economics which
> will be a companion journal to Elsevier’s Forest Ecology and 
> Management.
> Its aims are both to publish original papers of a high 
> scientific quality and to enhance communications amongst 
> researchers, legislators, decision-makers and other 
> professionals.
> 
> Forest Policy and Economics is intended to provide an 
> authoritative international forum for policy issues, 
> including economics and planning, relating to the forest and
> forest industries sector. While the content will focus on 
> European policy issues, it will also include coverage of 
> other parts of the world, and will contain original research
> papers contributed from the international scientific 
> community; selected and edited papers from EFI conferences 
> on forest policy; and contributions invited from leading 
> stakeholders. To enhance the journal’s communication role,
> authors will be especially encouraged to present their 
> information in a comparative and global context and to write
> in a non-technical style.
> Initially the journal is planned to appear quarterly, 
> starting with 4 issues in 1999.
> 
> Professor Max Krott, forest policy scientist of Göttingen 
> University, has accepted the position of founding Editor-in-
> Chief, and is forming an international editorial board. 
>  
> "There is a big need for such a journal for papers on forest 
> policy and economics but it is essential that we start out 
> with the aim of setting the highest academic standards" says 
> Professor Krott.  These standards will be guaranteed by an 
> international peer review system for all papers.
> 
> For further information about the journal please contact one
> of the following:
> Prof. Dr Max Krott, Institut für Forstpolitik und Naturschutz
> Georg-August-Universität Göttingen,
> Büskenweg 5, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
> Tel: +49 551 39 34 12   Fax: +49 551 39 34 15   
> E-mail: mkrott at gwdg.de 
> 
> Judith Taylor, 
> Senior Publishing Editor Agronomy, Plant and Soil Science 
> Elsevier Science, 
> P.O.Box 181, 
> 1000 AD Amsterdam, 
> The Netherlands
> Tel: +31 20 485 3619	Fax: +31 20 485 3325   
> E-mail:  j.taylor at elsevier.nl


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David Goodman 
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