Call for papers for special issue governance in mekong space for dialogue

International Journal of Water Resources
Development Call for Papers for Special Issue:
Governance in Mekong: Space for Dialogue
Deadline: 1 August 2016

We would like to invite you to participate in a Special Issue of International Journal of Water
Resources Development on Governance in Mekong: Space for Dialogue.
The Mekong River traverses six countries with diverse stakeholders holding multiple, overlapping


and sometimes competing interests, often yielding tensions and conflict over the priorities and
processes of river governance. Resolving these requires high capacities to assess complex problems,
modes of ensuring credible commitment, and the application of broad knowledge sets.
We invite you to submit an article to this issue, and are particularly interested in any work on
integrated and collaborative management, and theorizing about governance models of the Greater
Mekong.
We hope to feature your research in this issue, which we hope to be a showcase of exciting and
high-quality research on an important river basin as well as emerging socio-ecological trends. We
can concurrently planning a conference on the same theme in Yunnan University in Xiamen, China
and will release details on this in a separate document.
Yours sincerely,
Ching, Leong and Huijuan, Wu
Institute of Water Policy,
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,
469C Bukit Timah Road,
Singapore, 259772

Submission Instructions
All the articles submitted will be reviewed by the Guest Editors before submission to the journal.
Manuscripts should be submitted to by email to the Guest Editors for initial peer review. Publication
of the issue is planned for early 2017.

Please let the Guest Editors know as soon as possible if you are interested in submitting to this
issue; if so, an abstract is expected by Friday, 1st August 2016. The Guest Editors need to receive
the manuscript for review by Friday, 2nd December 2016.
Please email Dr Huijuan Wu at:
At a later stage once submissions are agreed with the Guest Editor you will be asked to submit your
paper to International Journal of Water Resources Development through the ScholarOne
Manuscripts online submission site at: />Each article will then undergo the formal process of double blind peer review by two external
referees overseen by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief. Submission to the Special Issue does not
automatically guarantee acceptance, all articles will be reviewed in respect to the standards, aims
and scope of the Special Issue and the journal. Copies of the reviewers’ comments will be sent to
you in a decision letter, along with any requests they may make for revisions. The final decision to
publish will rest with the Editor-in Chief.