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Call for book chapters: Lessons from the Great Recession

  • 1.  Call for book chapters: Lessons from the Great Recession

    Posted 03-30-2015 19:29

    Call for book chapters: Lessons from the Great Recession: At the Crossroads of Sustainability and Recovery

    Lessons from the Great Recession: At the Crossroads of Sustainability and Recovery

    Edited by: 

    This volume of the Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice Series with Emerald Group Publishing UK, will examine the problems faced globally as economies try to build a sustainable future in the aftermath of the 'Great Recession'.

    Call for Chapters:


    Chapters for this volume will be accepted from international academics whose work focuses on issues of economy, sustainability, core-periphery politics and community development. This volume will examine the problems faced globally as economies try to build a sustainable future in the aftermath of the 'Great Recession'. 

    The book will examine global cases of environmental sustainability & economics in the context of nations both the core and periphery. Essentially, the book will discuss the high costs of decisions taken in response to the 2008 economic crisis, one of which is now creating a lack of investment in environmental and developmental considerations.

    The book will examine concepts of sustainability in the post recessionary and post-bailout world.
    Definitions suggested for contributors include the following:
    1. Fiscal / economic / social sustainability
    2. Financial sustainability (sector risks etc) 
    3. Environmental sustainability 
    Chapters may also examine the relationships between nations and nations and supra state agencies such as the UN, EU, IMF etc.

    Abstracts should be emailed to Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez at:mgonza40@eafit.edu.co by May 1st 2015

    Final Submission of chapters will be by July 31st 2015.


    Further information

    Dr. Liam Leonard (BA, MPhil, PhD), California State University, Fullerton and  University of West Virginia.
    Editor: Advances in Sustainability & Environmental Justice Book Series (Emerald UK)
     

    Dr. Liam Leonard (BA, MPhil, PhD)
    Lecturer in Sociology & Criminal Justice,
    California State University, Fullerton
    & Adjunct Assoc. Professor and Research Fellow, University of West Virginia.
    Editor: CRIMSOC: http://crimsoc.org  
    Editor: Advances in Sustainability & Environmental Justice Book Series (Emerald UK)