ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY IN ASIA
Call for contributors. (Please share with interested scholars and relevant
lists.)
Dear Colleagues,
We have been asked by Routledge to serve as editors of the ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK
OF ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY IN ASIA. The book is intended to be a key resource
for readers interested in the social, cultural and policy aspects of the
environment in Asia, especially East Asia (East, Northeast and Southeast Asia).
Each chapter in the book will address a single topic across the region.
We are now making the final touches to the book’s planned contents. We still
have a few topics to cover. If you or someone you know might be interested in
writing on one of the following topics, please get in touch with us very soon:
+Human health and the environment (ideally discussing environment-human
relationships impacting health)
+ Garbage and waste pollution/management (ideally including controversies
around solutions, such as incineration, recycling, taxes and “confronting
consumption”)
+ Corporations (ideally addressing the responsibilities and responses of
businesses/industry in the region)
+ Regional CAUSES of climate change (ideally address the socio-economic changes
in the region making it a major source of greenhouse gas pollution, and
possibly discussing associated questions of responsibility and justice)
+ Environmental ethics/philosophy (ideally looking at Asian/East Asian
approaches, possibly contrasting them with Western approaches, and how this
relates to causes of environmental problems in the region and responses to them)
We welcome proposals for chapters on other topics if they have regional
coverage (that is, we discourage proposals focusing on single country cases).
Each chapter should provide a comprehensive review of the issues, focusing on
how society and policymaking combine in efforts within and among countries of
the region to respond to environmental and resource challenges. We anticipate
that chapters will be 7,000-8,000 words in length (including references), with
a planned deadline of late October 2012.
Please kindly share this call with interested experts and relevant lists.
Many thanks.
Best regards,
PAUL G. HARRIS, Hong Kong Institute of Education
Email: [email protected]
http://www.ied.edu.hk/links/paul.g.harris
GRAEME LANG, City University of Hong Kong
Email: [email protected]
http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/ais/OurTeam_StaffProfile.aspx?id=8&Role=Academic_Staff
