The Journal of Population and Sustainability (JP&S) welcomes submissions (research/review articles, commentaries, book reviews etc.) dealing with any aspect of environmental sustainability with a demographic dimension.
They are the only “diamond” open access publication in the field – meaning that we make no charges to authors or readers.
The JP&S’ scope extends well beyond human population growth and sustainability, and they welcome submissions examining issues such as the following:
- the relationships between wider population dynamics (such as migration, urbanization and local population decline) and environmental change.
- (un)sustainability considered in terms of the interconnections between demographic dynamics and wider factors such as: social values/norms; local/global social and economic inequality; environmental ethics/justice; political and economic power/systems; technological change etc.
- the effect of the expansion of the human enterprise on the populations and welfare of other species including livestock.
Please see their website to view the journal’s full aims and objectives.
CSDE Affiliate Nathalie Williams recently received an Ethical and Responsible Research Grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). There is much research and data collection on population health in areas and territories that are affected by conflict. Different countries and institutions have different practices and guidelines when it comes to conducting this research, which can cause challenges like data quality and access, risks of re-traumatizing research subjects, and the politicization of data and research findings. This project aims to compare and contrast the various practices of population and health research in conflict-affected areas to generate standardized guidelines and best practices for all those who work in this area.
About the project: We are working on a project for the National Center on Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), a principal statistical agency within the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Our project aims to investigate how—and to what extent— various federal data assets like data files, tables, and tools are created and used in academic research, state program evaluations, data journalism, and other contexts. As part of this effort, we will be developing a prototype Data Usage Platform (DUP) to better understand the uses of federal data. The overall goal of the DUP project is to build a robust and sustainable shared service framework to enable the federal data ecosystem to better understand the uses of its federal data. The DUP will (1) search for references to federal datasets used in published research, articles, and other reports, (2) calculate usage statistics to help us better understand how—and to what extent—agency datasets are currently being leveraged, and (3) display this information through an interactive dashboard and other tools.
Request for input: The usability testing will be conducted by videoconference. The input you provide in this meeting will inform our decisions on a new Data Usage Platform solution. Participating in the usability testing will not require any preparation and we will ask you questions about the DUP platform wireframes that we will display. Your participation is voluntary, and you can decline to participate or to answer any questions. All information you provide will be kept confidential. We will record the usability testing for note-taking purposes, if given your permission. These recordings will be deleted once the session has been fully transcribed. The usability testing would happen within the next few weeks, at a time convenient for your schedule.
Interested parties can contact Aivo Kivi at AKivi@mathematica-mpr.com.
The Northwest Multiple Listing Service, which tracks real estate trends in 26 of the 39 Washington counties, recently released data that states that there are more homes on the market this month than there were a year ago. While new listings are up, interest rates may come down. On August 1st, the rates were 6.73%, which is the lowest since February, but that interest rate is still a significant difference from the average of 3.94% that it was five years ago. However, this may change in the future. CSDE Affiliate Steven Bourassa, Director of the Washington Center for Real Estate Research at UW, says that the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank will lower rates next month. Visit the Tacoma News Tribune article to learn more about real estate trends in Washington State.