Announcements & CFPs
Forest and Society: Platform Migration Update
📅 2026-01-14
Forest and Society has successfully migrated to a new and enhanced publishing platform.
Previous Website (Archive)
https://journal.unhas.ac.id/index.php/fsThis site is now an archive and closed for new submissions. Manuscripts under review there will continue their process.
New Official Website
https://scholarhub.unhas.ac.id/fs
All new submissions must be made through our editorial system:
➜ Submit via Editorial Manager
Note: All articles accepted for publication will be hosted on the new official website. We thank our authors, reviewers, and readers for their support during this transition.
Special Issue: Resisting Green Extraction in the Global South: Social Movements, Civic Struggles, and Environmental Defenders in the Climate Crisis
Guest Editors:
- Dr Rodd Myers – Dala Institute, Indonesia
- Dr Efenita Mai Taqueban – University of the Philippines
- Dr Elliot Lodge – Chiang Mai University, Thailand
- Dr Mary Menton – Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
This special issue examines resistance to "green extraction" in the Global South—how climate mitigation projects paradoxically drive new forms of exploitation, violence, and authoritarianism in resource-rich regions. Adopting a political ecology framework, we interrogate how the commodification of nature for climate solutions precipitates the securitisation of resources and the violent marginalisation of environmental defenders and social movements. While focusing on Southeast Asia, we welcome comparative analyses linking to other regions.
The issue is co-managed by the Dala Institute as part of the "Guardians Under Pressure" initiative supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada.
📅 Key Timeline
- Abstract Deadline: February 28, 2026
- Full Manuscript Deadline: September 30, 2026
- Expected Publication: Q2 2027
📄 Submission Information
Full call for papers: Download detailed PDF
Submit abstract: Submit via this Form
Special Issue: Socio-Ecological Dynamics and Governance in the Danau Tempe Landscape
Guest Editor:
- Pettarani – Yayasan Tim Layanan Kehutanan Masyarakat
Danau Tempe in Sulawesi is a floodplain lake whose landscape changes significantly across seasons. During the rainy season, the Danau Tempe lake complex can expand to approximately 26,000 hectares, and may reach up to 47,000 hectares during periods of continuous rainfall. These seasonal transformations make Danau Tempe a dynamic inland water landscape where ecological processes, infrastructure, livelihoods, and governance intersect in complex ways.
This special issue invites research contributions that examine the complex socio-ecological, policy, and governance dynamics shaping the Danau Tempe landscape. Organized in collaboration with Tim Layanan Kehutanan Masyarakat, this initiative seeks to deepen understanding of how environmental change, infrastructural intervention, livelihood transition, and institutional fragmentation are reshaping human-nature relations in one of Indonesia’s critical inland water landscapes.
Research Themes
- Institutional Dynamics and Environmental Policy: Critical analyses of priority lake governance, institutional mandate fragmentation, regulatory overlaps across state levels, and policy discourses shaping the management of Danau Tempe.
- Political Ecology and Landscape Transformations: Studies of landscape manipulation and ecological change, including the impacts of water infrastructure, bendung gerak, sedimentation dynamics, resource contestation, access, exclusion, and emerging forms of privatization within the lake landscape.
- Livelihood Transitions, Gender, and Social Justice: Research on changing livelihood strategies, adaptation pathways, agrarian and aquatic livelihood transitions, and the gendered and social justice implications of ecological transformation, including feminist and social inclusion perspectives.
- Ecosystem Resilience and Climate Adaptation: Ecological and socio-ecological studies on fisheries productivity, micro-habitat mapping, biodiversity threats, invasive species, disaster resilience, and the role of local knowledge systems, including Maccera Tappareng, in climate adaptation and environmental governance.
📅 Key Timeline
- Abstract Deadline: July 10, 2026
- Full Manuscript Deadline: November 10, 2026
- Expected Publication: Q2 2027
📄 Submission Information
Submit abstract: Please send your abstract to forest_society@unhas.ac.id by July 10, 2026.
Selected abstracts will be invited by the editors to submit full manuscripts through the Forest and Society submission system.
For any questions regarding these announcements, please contact the editorial office at forest_society@unhas.ac.id.