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Call for contributing authors: The ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS Dear GEP Colleagues, I have been asked by Routledge to serve as editor of the ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS. The ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS will be a very important and major contribution to the literature. It is intended to be the primary “go-to” source for students, policymakers, activists and other readers interested in global environmental politics and related issues. Because the book will exceed 40 chapters (and be up to 700 pages long), it will be fully comprehensive. This will make the book the best starting point for anyone studying or researching global environmental politics. Importantly for students, the paperback version (released after the hardcover) will be affordable. The book’s contents have been developed with input from about two-dozen scholars of global environmental politics. Most of the chapters have been assigned to recognized experts in the field. I am now seeking additional experts to contribute chapters with the following indicative titles: * Alternative theories: constructivism, Marxism and critical approaches * The study of global environmental politics: strategies for research and learning * States: nations, sovereignty and the international system * International organizations: global and regional environmental cooperation * International environmental law: rules, courts and legal justice * Sub-national jurisdictions: regions, cities and rural areas * Business: corporate and industrial influence * Transnational actors: Nongovernmental organizations, civil society and individuals * Science: information, knowledge and expertise * Environmental security: international, national and human * Environmental diplomacy: international conferences and negotiations * North-South relations: colonialism, empire and international order * Globalization and the environment: markets, finance and trade * Environmental ethics: philosophy, ecology and other species * Democracy: pluralism, participation and public opinion * Energy and climate change * Stratospheric ozone depletion * Water, rivers and wetlands * Sustainable transport and infrastructure Each chapter will summarize particular key issues, policies, actors, institutions or theories, thereby giving readers a good foundation from which to conduct more in-depth research on global environmental politics and its various subfields (and to move on to other related books). Each chapter will be a survey (summary) of the topic, so new research is not required. In 6-7,000 words (including references), each chapter will introduce the topic and related real-world developments, survey the most significant literature, and reveal the topic’s importance for our understanding of global environmental politics. The precise content of each chapter can be modified somewhat to suit each author’s expert input. Because chapters are surveys/summaries, expert authors should find them relatively easy to write. The deadline for receipt of a clean draft of each chapter is mid-May 2012 so as to give authors plenty of time to write their contributions and to keep the project on schedule. In addition to the satisfaction and recognition that comes from being part of an expert team contributing to the largest collection of its kind yet published, each contributor will receive a copy of the book and £250 (about US$400) of Routledge books. If you are interesting in writing a chapter for the book, please kindly send me your name, affiliation, the topic that interests you (from the list above), and a summary of your experience related to the topic (this could be a link to your personal/institutional webpage). If you are unable to contribute, I would be grateful if you could suggest one or more names of other experts I might approach to write about any of the above topics. Many thanks, and best regards, Paul Harris -- P.G. Harris Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies Hong Kong Institute of Education pharris @ ied.edu.hk https://oraas0.ied.edu.hk/rich/web/people_details.jsp?pid=108398 Latest books: WORLD ETHICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: From International to Global Justice All royalties go to Oxfam. http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748639106 CHINA’S RESPONSIBILITY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: Ethics, Fairness and Environmental Policy All royalties go to Friends of the Earth. http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781847428127 ETHICS AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: Cosmopolitan Conceptions of Climate Change All royalties go to Oxfam. http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=14350 Other books: http://www.amazon.com/Paul-G.-Harris/e/B001HPC54G/
