Dear Colleagues

Final Call for Papers: Sustainable Development on  Islands Nations and Regions

Island nations are fascinating places, not only from a landscape perspective, which makes them very attractive tourism destinations,  but also due to their biodiversity and cultural heritage. They are also characterised by their vulnerability to pollution (especially but not only of marine nature), and  increasingly, climate change.Overall, they can be described in two main categories:

i. Island nations as sovereign States
II. Island regions and communities which are part of non-island States such as those  associated to North and Latin American, European, African and to some countries in the
Asia-Pacific region (e.g. the Balearic and Canarian islands, US, Dutch and French overseas territories, etc)

The importance of island nations and regions, and the challenges they face in respect of working towards a more sustainable future, illustrate the perceived need for a publication dedicated to these linkages.It is against this background that the book "Sustainable Development on Island Nations and Regions" is being produced.

The book will document and promote experiences on what island nations and regions are doing to  pursuit´´ and implement sustainable development. It will also discuss the challenges, and the various measures being implemented to address them. The range of themes to be tackled in the book  includes matters related to tourism, socio-economic issues,  traditions and beliefs,  industrial activities, education/ training, ethics,  religion and the arts,  among others.  The Editors welcome suggestions of additional topics.

The book  "Sustainable Development on Island Nations and Regions"  will be published as a further volume of the “World Sustainability Series”. The series (https://www.springer.com/series/13384) is the most successful peer-reviewed book series on matters related to sustainable development on the market, with  37 volumes published to date. It has produced leading volumes such as "Integrative Approaches to Sustainable Development", "Handbook of Sustainability Science and Research", "Towards Green Campus Operations", "Universities as Living Labs for Sustainable Development" and the Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: https://www.springer.com/series/15893. Over 3.000 authors from 123 countries have contributed to the series to date.
The peer-reviewed nature of the publications means that they are officially acknowledged as academic outputs in the
context of promotion and tenure procedures. The volumes produced to date can be seen here: https://www.springer.com/series/13384?detailsPage=titles.

Deadlines:
Submission of abstracts: 30th October, 2021
Submission of full papers:  January 18th, 2022
Submission of revised papers: March 15th, 2022
Expected publication: Summer 2022

Expressions of interest, consisting of a 300-words abstract which must contain the full names, institutional and contact details of the authors (no abstracts will otherwise be considered), should be sent to the IUSDRP Team at: [log in to unmask] in line with the above deadlines. Further details will be shared with the authors whose abstracts have been accepted.

Rgds,

The Editors

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