Greetings All-
This is just a gentle reminder to submit your work for consideration in a 
special issue of Earth System Governance focused on AI & digitalization that I 
will be editing. Below you will find the full call for papers.

Earth System Governance Special Issue: AI & Digitalization
You are invited to contribute to an upcoming Special Issue of Earth System 
Governance 
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 on artificial intelligence and digitalization. Josh 
Gellers<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjoshgellers.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cjosh.gellers%40unf.edu%7C6eecf1c9a77d41327f1308d874dc0887%7Cdf29b2fa8929482f9dbb60ff4df224c4%7C1%7C0%7C637387835716762620%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=jsdnltKKklLQL%2BxzVGbvHPtUykq53Hl5O4wZy1vsX04%3D&reserved=0>
 (University of North Florida) will serve as guest editor.
Technology and the environment have long been associated with one another. 
Thousands of years ago, technological advancements in agriculture led to the 
development of hand-held tools used to improve the human capacity to cultivate 
land. Today, new technologies present significant opportunities to better 
manage natural resources and safeguard the environment. For instance, 
artificial intelligence is increasingly being applied in the context of 
agriculture, climate finance, renewable energy, and transportation in order to 
achieve operational efficiencies that vastly exceed those achievable through 
human decision-making. However, at the same time, their introduction and the 
speed with which they are introduced pose serious governance challenges to a 
planet in the throes of a human-induced climate crisis. Distributed ledger 
technology threatens to undermine state sovereignty while presenting a 
decentralized form of financial transparency. Facial recognition algorithms are 
being used to identify activists participating in social justice protests. 
Digital devices such as ‘wearables’ and social media applications collect 
petabytes of personal data that can be weaponized to influence the outcomes of 
elections or place private information in the hands of technology companies or 
governments. Therefore, central to the task of maximizing the environmental 
benefits and mitigating the potential pitfalls of novel technologies is 
understanding how their use is governed, by whom, and to what end(s).
The Earth System Governance project’s latest research framework presents a 
number of themes relevant to this task, including Democracy & Power, 
Architecture & Agency, Justice & Allocation, Anticipation & Imagination, and 
Adaptiveness & Flexibility (see Burch et al. 
2019<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fpii%2FS2589811619300059&data=04%7C01%7Cjosh.gellers%40unf.edu%7C6eecf1c9a77d41327f1308d874dc0887%7Cdf29b2fa8929482f9dbb60ff4df224c4%7C1%7C0%7C637387835716772579%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=5T6A1rBmeuFmQwwAYIl2ycBttvJf%2BDYf97of9XeEQM0%3D&reserved=0>).
 With these research lenses in mind, this Special Issue seeks to attract 
previously unpublished work that probes the promises and perils of AI and 
digitalization from an Earth System Governance perspective (broadly construed). 
Submissions may take the form of Perspectives of 2-4k words, Reviews of up to 
12k words, and Research Articles of 8-10k words (see explanations 
here<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elsevier.com%2Fjournals%2Fearth-system-governance%2F2589-8116%2Fguide-for-authors&data=04%7C01%7Cjosh.gellers%40unf.edu%7C6eecf1c9a77d41327f1308d874dc0887%7Cdf29b2fa8929482f9dbb60ff4df224c4%7C1%7C0%7C637387835716772579%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=ddJ8gjGpei7uxD5qGKZaMFPZEO0JsEC80%2BhQ%2BwPBdro%3D&reserved=0>).
 Theoretical, empirical, critical, and summative papers are all welcome. 
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  *   Artificial intelligence and environmental decision-making
  *   Digitalization and human rights in the context of environmental issues
  *   The digital divide and Earth system governance
  *   Robots used for and operating in the environment
  *   Blockchain and climate change
  *   Digital surveillance and environmental activism
  *   Big Data and natural resource exploitation
  *   Unmanned aerial vehicles and environmental crimes
  *   New technologies and renewable energy
If you are interested in contributing to this Special Issue, please send an 
abstract of no more than 250 words to Josh Gellers at 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> by 30 November 2020. Full 
manuscripts will be due by 1 May 2021. The Special Issue is slated for online 
publication by the end of 2021 or early 2022. All articles will be subject to 
double-blind, peer review. The editorial staff places high priority on 
obtaining submissions from authors representing diverse backgrounds (i.e. in 
terms of gender, region, seniority).

Best,

Josh


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Joshua C. Gellers, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept. of Political Science and Public Administration
University of North Florida
1 UNF Drive
Jacksonville, FL 32224

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