Dear Colleagues,
I have room for a few more chapters in an important new book that I am editing: A Research Agenda for Climate Justice. Please consider proposing a chapter. Proposals are due by 21 September 2018 (with chapters due in March 2019). This is the final call for chapters. Please see below for additional information. Many thanks to everyone who has expressed interest in the project. Kind regards, P.G. Harris Chair Professor Global & Environmental Studies EdUHK FINAL CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE Background Climate change is a matter of social and distributive justice. Calls for justice, particularly international justice, have been written into climate change agreements and conventions. Efforts to limit the injustices of climate change and to highlight them are now part and parcel of the work of many nongovernmental organizations, especially those concerned about environmental protection, economic development and poverty eradication. Climate justice is now an established area of scholarship that crosses disciplinary boundaries. However, despite the work of governments, activists and scholars to study and implement climate justice, the injustices of climate change – greenhouse gas pollution and the felt impacts of environmental changes resulting from that pollution – continue to increase. There is now very little prospect of averting severe climate change in the future. Realizing climate justice under these circumstances will require doing much more in the very near future; it will require new vision about the way forward. Aims of the book A Research Agenda for Climate Justice aims to foster and present a new research agenda that can help to illuminate alternative pathways forward for scholars (including advanced students), policymakers and activists. Its objective is to showcase visionary and provocative research on climate justice. In addition to furthering climate justice as a scholarly field, the book has a strong orientation toward real-world impact: producing and sharing an agenda for research that can inform and guide the way forward for those doing the actual work of climate justice. A key aim of this project is to stimulate innovative, alternative perspectives on climate justice – to explicitly avoid more of the same scholarship and more of the same policymaking. Each of the contributors to A Research Agenda for Climate Justice will be asked to write “the chapter you’ve always wanted to write” on climate justice. Each chapter should aim to take an alternative approach or perspective that can further the understanding and/or the realization of climate justice. Research areas that might be addressed include the following (listed here in no particular order): alternative approaches to international climate justice; individual vs. collective responsibility; duties of citizens for climate justice; cosmopolitan and climate justice; climate justice of and within developing states; capitalism and climate justice; democracy and climate justice; new perspectives on burden sharing; climate justice and avoiding harm; affluence/capabilities and climate justice; material consumption/modern lifestyle and climate justice; sustainability and climate justice; innovative thinking on intergenerational justice and climate change; climate justice for the extreme poor; climate justice in international negotiations and diplomacy; climate justice in local and national policies/policymaking; representative and participatory justice; climate equity in international law; human rights and climate justice; emissions rights and climate justice; development and climate justice; justice in adaptation to climate change; energy and climate justice; justice and climate geoengineering; leadership for climate justice; a climate justice response to the Trump administration and other climate skeptics/deniers and/or laggards; justice and dangerous climate change/climate catastrophe; decarbonization and climate justice; climate justice as an educational and scholarly imperative; and so forth. Chapter proposals Please send expressions of interest to the editor by 21 September 2018. Please include the following information (1) Your name (2) Your professional title and affiliation (3) Your email address (4) A draft title of the proposed chapter (please include main title and subtitle) (5) An abstract of 200-300 words that summarizes the proposed thesis of the chapter and explains how it would advance the realization and/or further understanding of climate justice Deadline for chapters Completed chapters, suitable for publication, will be due to the editor by 3 March 2019. Length of chapters Each chapter will be about 5,000 words in length (not including references). About the editor P.G. Harris is author/editor of a number of books on climate change politics, policy and ethics. For information, please visit this webpage: https://paulgharris.net/books/ How to contact the editor The editor can be reached via email using the following contact page (simply cut and paste your proposal/abstract and/or message into the text box): https://paulgharris.net/contact/ Please share this call for chapters Recipients of this call for chapters are kindly asked to share it with interested scholars in their own research networks. Apologies for cross postings. -- P.G. Harris Chair Professor Global & Environmental Studies EdUHK https://paulgharris.net orcid.org/0000-0003-3647-5692<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3647-5692> ©2018 This e-mail, its contents and attachments are subject to copyright protections. All rights reserved. "Tie yourself to the mast of truth." Harold Evans -- P.G. 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