We invite you to submit the articles for the 5th issue of the journal, which will be published in early summer this year. We welcome the articles for the 5th issue until May 25th, 2021. All forms of the texts shall be submitted to the email address jlg@vsgrm.unm.si.

We believe that also with your support the journal will develop in the next few years, so we cordially invite you to participate with your written contribution.

Landscape Governance College - Grm Novo mesto so far published four issues of the scientific journal "Journal of Landscape Governance. In the attempt to improve the journal's international recognition, we attracted new, international members of the editorial board, coming from various, renown institutions. In the next period we will be trying to include the journal in different indexing databases. Journal is published strictly in electronic form, has ISSN number and it is automatically included in Slovenian bibliographical database COBISS. Journal is available on the web page of Landscape Governance College - Grm Novo mesto (URL: http://vsgrm.unm.si/jlg). At the same page there are also available instructions to the authors as well as the template of the article.

Aim and Scope 

Journal accepts for publication original research articles, literature review articles, new book reviews and occasionally also the articles of practitioners, if they contribute not only to the professional but also research community's interests. The journal accepts the relevant articles, covering broad fields of natural, technical as well as social sciences that contribute to regional and local development.

Basic instruction

Original research articles are based on authors' original research (either theoretical or empirical) and shall not exceed 32.000 characters (spaces included).

Footnotes are not allowed. with the exception of the footnote on the Author’s affiliation (including information on title and institutional affiliation). Corresponding author shall be marked.

Articles shall in general follow the IMAR composition rule and shall use APA style referencing.

Literature review articles are based on the review of state-of-the-art scientific findings in certain fields and shall not exceed 25.000 characters (spaces included).

Book reviews are critical reviews of field relevant books, published in the last two years and shall not exceed 3.000 characters (spaces included).

Practitioners' articles do not require academic rigorosity of methodology and are focused in the advancement of the practice in certain fields. However, they still need to provide proper argumentation, literature and data. The Maximum extent of practitioners' articles is 25.000 characters (spaces included).

Tables and Graphs shall be added in the text and properly enumerated and marked according to APA style. 

Acknowledgement of project connection or financial aid is added as an endnote at the end of the article.

All articles are subject to double blind peer review procedure.

Journal of Landscape Governance is published annually and accepts articles in Slovenian or English language.