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Call: Europe & the New Austerity: Case Studies in Social, Financial & Environmental Sustainability

  • 1.  Call: Europe & the New Austerity: Case Studies in Social, Financial & Environmental Sustainability

    Posted 02-04-2013 15:16
    Call for Chapters: 

    The Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice Series with Emerald Group Publishing

    (Formerly Advances in Ecopolitics)

    Is issuing a call for chapters for Volume 1 of our new series:


    Europe & the New Austerity: Case Studies in Social, Financial & Environmental Sustainability
    (Leonard & Gurdgiev Eds.)

    This book will focus on three concepts of sustainability:


    1) Fiscal / economic / social sustainability 
    2) Financial sustainability (sector risks etc) 
    3) Environmental sustainability 

    In addition, contributors should focus on international aspects of austerity, such as:

    1) The economics of austerity covering monetary-v-fiscal adjustments, expansionary fiscal contraction, stability policies (IMF v EU) and international comparative case studies.

    2) Country-specific experiences: Iceland, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, as well as more structural adjustment countries - Sweden, Finland, Belgium etc.

    3) The social aspects of austerity, impacts, outcomes, futures etc.

    4) The political dimension (including analyses of European Social Model). 

    5) Environmental Sustainability in a European context.

        * Submission date for Chapters will be July 30th 2013.

        * Proposed Publication date will be Winter 2013/2014


    Submit abstracts and chapters to the Volume Editors at the following:

    Liam Leonard: liam_leonard@yahoo.com
    Constantin Gurdgiev: gurdgiev@gmail.com 

    Regards,

    Liam Leonard, Constantin Gurdgiev;
    Volume Editors

    ********************************************************************************************

    Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev Wins Emerald Outstanding Author Contribution 2012:
    ________________________________

    Awards for Excellence
    http://www.emeraldinsight.com/authors/literati/oac_2012.htm

    Chapter 6 Euro's crisis: 'From the sovereigns to the banks and back to the sovereigns'
    Document Information:
    Title:Chapter 6 Euro's crisis: From the sovereigns to the banks and back to the sovereigns
    Author(s):Constantin Gurdgiev
    Volume:8 Editor(s): Liam Leonard, Iosif Botetzagias ISBN: 978-0-85724-761-2 eISBN:978-0-85724-762-9
    Citation:Constantin Gurdgiev (2011), Chapter 6 Euro's crisis: From the sovereigns to the banks and back to the sovereigns, in Liam Leonard, Iosif Botetzagias (ed.)Sustainable Politics and the Crisis of the Peripheries: Ireland and Greece (Advances in Ecopolitics, Volume 8), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.109-139

    Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice:

    http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=2051-5030

    Advances in Ecopolitics

    http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=2051-5030

    ********************
    Dr. Liam Leonard
    Senior Editor: Advances in Sustainability & Environmental Justice Book Series (Emerald)
    Lecturer in Sociology, Criminology & Human Rights
    Department of Social Sciences
    Institute of Technology, Sligo, Ireland
    353 071 91 55212


    President & Chair: Criminology Assoc. of Ireland:  http://criminologyireland.webs.com/


        * Winner: 2012 Sage Research Excellence Award
        * Winner: 2012 NAIRTL Teaching & Research Award
        * Author: Sustainable Politics & Crisis of the Peripheries: Ireland and Greece
        * Executive Senior Editor: CRIMSOC: Journal of Social Criminology: http://crimsoc.org/
        * Senior Editor: Advances in Sustainability & Environmental Justice Book Series (Emerald)
        * Website: http://www.liamleonard.blogspot.com