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Dear Colleagues,
I would like to use the recent book announcements on this list as an opportunity to renew the call for nominations for next year's Sprout Award. If you or someone you know has just published a book please make sure to ask the publisher to submit it for the award. All details are below. Please forward this message to your networks to ensure that good books are nominated! Best regards, Jörg Balsiger **Harold and Margaret Sprout Award** ISA-ESS members and others who know of books, or have published books of their own, that they wish to see nominated for the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award are encouraged to contact publishers as soon as possible. The award is sponsored by the Environmental Studies Section (ESS) of the International Studies Association (ISA), and is given to the best book in the field, one that makes a contribution to theory and interdisciplinarity, shows rigor and coherence in research and writing, and offers accessibility and practical relevance. Nominated books should address some aspect of one or more environmental, pollution or resource issues from a broadly international or transnational perspective, including works in (for example) global, interstate, transboundary, North-South, foreign policy, comparative or area studies. Environmental subjects of books can include (for example) environmental law, diplomacy, transnational activism, natural resource use, global change, sustainable development, biodiversity, transboundary pollution control, and the like. Nominated works must be published during 2009 or 2010. Books with a 2011 copyright date are welcome provided the committee members receive them in time. Each publisher may nominate more than one book, and books nominated last year can be re-nominated. The committee members will begin reading the books as soon as they arrive. The committee must complete its review and reach its decision in November 2010. The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the ISA in Montreal in March 2011. Therefore, we need to RECEIVE notice of nominations and receive copies of nominated books by 1 August 2010. Publishers wishing to nominate books should send one copy of each book to EACH member of the Sprout Award Committee. The names and addresses of committee members are listed below. Steinar Andresen Fridtjof Nansen Institute P.O. Box 326 1326 Lysaker NORWAY Jörg Balsiger Institute for Environmental Decisions Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Universitätsstrasse 22, CHN K78 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND Matthias Finger EPFL-CDM-TPI-MIR BAC 103, Station 5 1015 Lausanne SWITZERLAND Paul Harris, Department of Social Sciences Hong Kong Institute of Education 10 Lo Ping Road Tai Po, Hong Kong CHINA Matthew J. Hoffmann Department of Political Science University of Toronto 100 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3 CANADA --
Jörg Balsiger Senior Researcher Institute for Environmental Decisions ETH Zurich Universitätsstrasse 22 CH-8092 Zurich Phone: +41 44 632 4961 Email: [email protected] |
