RESOURCES AT THE CENTER

Through the Center’s resources, we share our results, provide support to researchers, and offer tools for development actors. The Center supports research that addresses critical development issues, finds sustainable solutions, and builds knowledge. Sharing that knowledge is one important way that the Center and our grantees can have an impact—academically, in a business sense and community-wide. Our information and research information services provide the resources and tools our researchers need to conduct their work and achieve lasting results.

PCS PUBLISHING, CO.

PCS Publishing, Co., established in 2009, is a subsidiary of the Polo Center of Sustainability. It operates within the Open Access Publishing (OAP) forum and aims to freely promote universal access with equal opportunities for all scientific, technical and engineered knowledge with the creation and dissemination via peer-reviewed publishing. The OAP encourages initiatives to facilitate access, including free and uncharged access, to publicly available journals and books, open archives and repositories for scientific knowledge.

• PCS Publishing, Co.

SPECIAL ISSUE JOURNALS

The Center's key research interests are rooted and focus on the two themes that correspond with PCS Publishing, Co.'s special issue journals based in the Biblioteca Centrale "G. Marconi", Italy's central library in Rome.

• Special Issue Journal of Human Geography and Environmental Studies - ISSN 2036-7910

• Special Issue Journal of Sustainability Science and Studies - ISSN 2036-7929

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES HOSTED BY THE CENTER

2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABILITY, HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, AND ENVIRONMENT 2018

• 28 November - 2 December 2018 | Kraków, Poland

• ICSHGE18 Proceedings available for download [PDF]: Mirror 1 [Researchgate.net], Mirror 2 [Google Drive]

• ICSHGE18 has been mostly archived with reduced web access and capability

INAUGURAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERNCE ON SUSTAINABILITY, HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 2009

• 6-8 November 2009 | Diano Marina (IM), Italy

• ICSHGES09 Proceedings available for download [PDF]: Mirror [Google Drive]

• ICSHGES09 has been mostly archived with reduced web access and capability

INFORMATION SERVICES

Information services internal to the Center include its information technology, data acquisition, dataset tools, and repository research and findings. They are regularly backed up and updated via our information services support and are protected by partially maintaining information on our servers offline. To contact the Center regarding its information services support email us at: info@polocenter.org

SUPPORT

Support from our information services can assist with technical issues regarding the Center's information technology, such as: personal information (e.g., email, usernames, passwords, and other account-related functions); telephone support; networking and calendaring; web hosting information; and other administrative and project-related applications.

BUDGETARY SYSTEM

Information services also maintains the budgetary system for the Center and is responsible for repository archives, personal information, and recording services.

INFORMATION LINKS ABOUT PCS

LIGURIA, ITALY

Since the Center’s inception in 2009, within the City of Imperia, we have had strong ties with the local government of the Region of Liguria, Italy. This has includes Regional, Provincial, and Municipal (Comune) levels. Specifically, within the Province of Imperia we have had ties with the Comune di San Remo, Imperia, Diano Marina, and Cervo; and, within the Province of Savona this includes the Comune di Andora, Albenga, and Savona. At an academic level within the Region, inter-institutional collaboration includes the Polo Universitario di Imperia (where the Center’s name originates from), Campus Universitario di Savona, Università degli Studi di Genova, and Polo Universitario della Spezia.

EUROPE AND BEYOND

Institutional collaboration has offered the Center a means by which it has been able to share and engage in research and work internationally. On the European level, we have institutional collaboration throughout parts of the continent including Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. This peer interaction, within specialized academic disciplines, has enhanced our inter-institutional capacity and provides opportunity to create a communication network, something extremely critical, in much of the emerging fields the Center is engaged in. This establishment across institutions offers reassurance that our work is meaningful and important at the academic level while simultaneously providing an outlet for business venture. The Center primarily takes a grassroots approach to institutional collaboration, and have extended beyond Europe, with key networks in parts of Africa (Namibia, Nigeria, and South Africa), Asia (Cambodia, China, Indonesia, India, Laos, Russia, Thailand, and Vietnam), North America (Canada, Mexico, and the United States), South America (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), and the Oceania (Australia, the Cook Islands and New Zealand). Our alliance of talent is taking an active role in shaping novel and future ideas in sustainability and relating interdisciplinary research.

TOOLS FOR RESEARCHERS FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Our research tools include materials aimed at building skills and knowledge to enhance the quality of development research. We provide the following materials, with the intent of assisting developing country researchers, and providing assistance wherever needed and possible.

The following PDF files are sourced from IDRC, Canada:

 ▪ [PDF] Open access discount information sheet on open access discounts from major English-language journal publishers

 ▪ [PDF] How to write a policy brief training tool with practical advice on planning, writing your content and checking your work

 ▪ [PDF] Scholarly list of free or low-fee research resources for development researchers