CALL FOR CHAPTERS ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP: A REFERENCE HANDBOOK
Deborah Rigling Gallagher & Norman Christensen, Duke University, & R.N.L (Pete) Andrews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. SAGE, 2011.
This 2-volume, 100 chapter reference book is one of the first in the SAGE Reference Series on Leadership. Chapters are anticipated to be 7000 words. We envision the *first 50-chapter volume* of the environmental leadership handbook to include such topics as: _Environmental Thought leadership_. Chapters on thought leadership in topical areas such as environmental ethics, conservation, eco-feminism, collective action and the commons and what we have termed as contrarians. _Political Leadership_. Chapters which focus on the environmental challenge context for the expression of political leadership. _Governmental Leadership_. Chapters on government initiatives to provide leadership in environmental management. _Private Sector Leadership_. Chapters on private sector leadership in environmental management as individuals, through organizations or through specific initiatives. _Nonprofit Leadership_. Chapters on nonprofit sector leadership in in topical areas such as conservation, advocacy, philanthropy and economic development. _Signaling Events_. Chapters which describe environmental signaling events, their impact on the exercise of environmental leadership through individual, political and organizational actions. _Grassroots Activism_. Chapters profiling individual environmental activists and considering how environmental leadership is exercised through activism. _Environmental Leadership in Journalism, Literature and the Arts_. Chapters describing the exercise of environmental leadership through journalism, literature or the arts. _Environmental Leadership in Education_. Chapters considering the exercise of environmental leadership through education. *In the second volume* we seek 50 chapters that confront the particular intractable characteristics of environmental problem solving. We envision individual chapters that focus on how environmental leadership actions or initiatives may be applied to address specific problems in context, offering both analysis and recommendations. Overarching themes to be considered in this volume including _Taking Action in the Face of Uncertainty_ (for example, mitigating climate change impacts, adapting to climate change, protecting coastal ecosystems, protecting wetlands and estuaries, preserving forest resources, protecting critical aquifers, preventing the spread of invasive species, identifying and conserving vital global habitats), _Promoting International Cooperation in the Face of Conflicting Agendas_ (for example, designing and implementing climate change policy, reconciling species protection and free trade, allocating scarce resources, designing sustainable fisheries, addressing global overpopulation, preventing trade in endangered species, conserving global biodiversity, mitigating ocean debris and pollution), _Addressing Conflicts between Economic Progress and Environmental Protection_ (for example, preserving open space, redesigning cities, promoting ecotourism, redeveloping brownfields, designing transit oriented development, confronting impacts of factory farming, preventing non-point source agricultural pollution, confronting agricultural water use, addressing the impacts of agrochemicals, designing sustainable food systems, valuing ecosystem services), _Addressing Complex Management Challenges_ ( for example, energy efficiency, solar energy, wind energy, hydrogen economy, alternative vehicles, solid waste disposal, hazardous waste disposal, electronic waste disposal, life cycle analysis, waste to energy), and _Addressing Disproportionate Impact on the Poor and the Weak_ (for example, preventing export of developed world waste to developing countries, minimizing co-location of poverty and polluting industries, protecting the rights of indigenous peoples, preventing environmental disease: malaria, preventing environmental disease, protecting children's health, providing universal access to potable water, protecting environmental refugees).
Please provide proposals for chapters to Deborah Rigling Gallagher,[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>, by July 2, 2010. Proposals should be no longer than 200 words and include brief biographies of authors, including current affiliation, related publications, and contact information. Proposals will form the basis of formal invitations for chapters. Completed chapters will be due to the editors by February 1, 2011. -- ****************************** Deborah Rigling Gallagher, Ph.D. Executive Director, Duke Environmental Leadership Program Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University Box 90328 Durham, NC 27708-0328 (919) 613-8138 http://www.env.duke.edu/people/faculty/gallagher.html
