The conference's theme is 'East Meets West in Pursuit of a Sustainable World' and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this questions from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage submissions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to the Social Sciences, including the following:

NB Abstracts should be not more than 250 words in length and will be blind reviewed by a voluntary team of peer reviewers. Authors are limited to one abstract submission, whether as lead or secondary author.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 January 2010
Results of abstract reviews returned to authors: 5 February 2010
Deadline for submission of full papers: 15 April 2010
Deadline for full conference registration payment for all presenters: 1 May 2010
ACSS Conference: 18-21 June 2010

Acceptance of Abstract: If your abstract is accepted by the review team and you pay the conference registration fee by the specified deadline, your submission will be scheduled in an appropriate session for oral presentation at the conference.

If your abstract is accepted for oral presentation, you are encouraged to submit a full paper before 15 April 2010 for inclusion in the ACSS 2010 Conference Proceedings CD-ROM. The full article should be submitted in Word (NOT pdf). Final papers should be uploaded through the submissions system. Please ensure that your paper is ready to go to press by the submission deadline (April 15), having thoroughly read the paper for errors. If English is not your first language then this is especially important. To facilitate easier processing, reviewing, and publishing all submissions, PLEASE follow this checklist:

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• 12-point Times New Roman font.
  
  
• Single-spacing throughout the document.
  
• Double space (instead of indent) to designate a new paragraph or section.
  
• Page numbers at the bottom center of each page.
  
• Top, bottom, and side margins no less than 7/8 of an inch or 2.2 cm.
  
• Cover page that includes title, authors, their affiliations, their contact information, and the topic of the submission.
  
• Title, authors and affiliations repeated at the beginning of the body of the paper.
  
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• Manuscript not to exceed 5000 words (excluding tables, figures and references).
  
• Manuscripts longer than 5,000 words will be returned for editing.
  
  
• Graphs and visuals can be reproduced electronically.

Abstracts and follow-up full articles will be published in a conference proceedings volume to be made available on CD and later archived on the Web. Authors retain copyright in their work but through the act of submission to this conference are agreeing to a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License for their work to help ensure continued global access to the work over time. All publications produced for the conference, including abstracts, full papers and presentation slides will be openly archived eventually on the ACSS site.