Historical GIS Forum

Dear colleagues,

If you are involved in scholarly or applied work in the Appalachian region, and are using any kind of geospatial technology to do that work, this special issue represents a key publication opportunity for you.  (If you are not, please forward this email to someone who might be, in your own or another discipline. Many thanks!)

This special issue represents a vehicle to bring new methodologies and fresh perspectives to the venerable geographic tradition of investigating regions of the earth's surface through multiple lenses.  The issue's region of focus is Appalachia, which we define as essentially the Appalachian physiographic region from northern Alabama and Georgia to southwestern Pennsylvania (but excluding Pittsburgh).  This region has long been considered distinctive among North American regions, along cultural, social, economic, demographic, and physical dimensions, among others.  While less isolated and distinctive than historically, its present, past, and future remain ripe for investigation across a remarkably wide range of scholarly and applied approaches, and many of these approaches can and do profitably employ geospatial technologies as part of the process of discovery, prediction, public participation, or problem-solving.

As the guest editors, we have two objectives for this special issue.  First, we wish the articles collectively to help illuminate the nature of the Appalachia region (as defined above), contributing a volume of useful insight to the literature encompassing Appalachian studies, geospatial methods, applied geography, and the individual disciplines represented.  Second, we want the issue to exemplify the rich interdisciplinary potential of geospatial technologies to increase understanding of our world and of specific parts of it.

If this interests you, please see the online CFP (www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/... ; you may need to scroll down) for examples of suitable topics and other key details.  To learn more about the journal, see www.igi-global.com/journal/... .  Submission deadline is May 31, 2019, but in the meantime we are happy to correspond with potential authors.

Dr. G. Rebecca Dobbs, Geospatial Research Associate (NCSU), Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory (USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station), Otto, NC; grdobbs@ncsu.edu

Dr. Diane M. Styers, Associate Professor, Geosciences and Natural Resources, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC; dmstyers@wcu.edu