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Subject: TR: 2004 Ralf Yorque Memorial Competition
From: Francois Bousquet (f.bousquet@cgiar.org)
Date: Sun Feb 01 2004 - 14:19:23 CET
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De : Rachelle McGregor [mailto:rachelle@ecologyandsociety.org]
Envoyé : mercredi 28 janvier 2004 02:35
À : subscribers@ecologyandsociety.org
Objet : 2004 Ralf Yorque Memorial Competition
Ecology and Society Proudly Announces the 2004 Ralf Yorque Memorial
Competition
"Novel Approaches of Integrative Science for the Future"
Ecology and Society invites our 11,000+ subscribers and all other readers to
participate in a manuscript competition that exploits novel ways of
performing integrative science and policy research. The annual 'Ralf Yorque
Memorial Prize' of 5,000 Euro will be awarded to the most novel paper that:
1) integrates different streams of science to assess fundamental questions
in the ecological, political, and social foundations for sustainable
social-ecological systems, and
2) employs unique advantages of electronic publishing and facilities of the
WEB to help communicate complex ideas simply.
The contributions of the winner and others that pass the normal peer-review
process will be published in E&S. We want to see your novel ideas of
scientific endeavors for the future. Simply indicate if the paper submitted
is intended for the Ralf Yorque Competition and state in a cover letter why
you think the manuscript is eligible for the competition (e.g. what is novel
about the submission, and how is the web being used?).
E&S wants help from researchers and practitioners who would like to push the
limits of how scholarly research is communicated and is conducted. We have
had some successful contributions, but not enough.
For example, E&S has published novel integrated models of social-ecological
systems including models for exploration by the readers themselves. There
were two excellent winners of the first Ralf Yorque Competition that
featured good science and good use of the Web (Cumming 2002, Peterson 2002).
E&S also published novel ideas on integrative science like an immune system
perspective of ecosystem management (Janssen 2001), or on approaches that
produce real surprises when ecological, economic and decision systems are
linked (Carpenter et al. 1999).
However, we also experience that interdisciplinary science is often promoted
in words and not in practice. Young scholars derive many incentives to
specialize in certain disciplines, and experience few incentives to be
creative in combining insights from various scientific disciplines and
performing science in nontraditional ways. We ask our readers to be part of
an effort to stimulate novelty and creativity of new ways of performing
science.
Manuscript submissions, while exploring new ways of science should include a
balance of novelty and content. Each submission will be peer-reviewed for
content and assessed by a panel of judges for novelty.
Full details for submission to this competition can be found at
http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/submit/rysubmit.html. The deadline for
submissions is JUNE 30, 2004.
We are grateful to the Foundation of Scientific Symbiosis
www.scientificsymbiosis.org for providing the resources to finance this
competition.
Thank you,
Rachelle McGregor
Acting Managing Editor
Ecology and Society
www.ecologyandsociety.org
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