Call for chapters: Innovative Approaches to Achieving Global Sustainability

 

INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO ACHIEVING

 GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY

(book proposal solicited by Palgrave Macmillan acquisitions editor, Aaron Javsicas)

 

Charles Wankel, St. John’s University, New York, and

James A. F. Stoner, Fordham University, editors

 

The need to take far-reaching actions to achieve a just world that is environmentally, socially, politically, and economically sustainable is stark.  Those who have argued that the jury is still out on the “question” of global warming have dwindled to a small group of hardcore deniers.  Burgeoning worldwide poverty, health crises, natural resource depletion, terrorism, and governmental and business corruption all cry out for innovative approaches to sharing existing ways and creating new ways to meet this generation’s needs while enhancing the ability of future generations to meet theirs – to create a world that works for everyone with no one left out.  This volume seeks chapters with creative, solution-oriented ideas on how business, government, academic and other leaders are already currently taking creative and innovative approaches to move the world to a globally sustainable environment in all its contexts and chapters that suggest new approaches that are feasible if not yet tried.  We particularly encourage proposals for chapters devoted to one of three topics: (1) ways the “low hanging fruit” of contributions to a sustainable  world that are immediately more profitable are being identified and “plucked,” (2) investments in sustainable activities that meet market demands for profitability in reasonable time frames, and (3) organizational innovations that will allow for-profit companies to escape the day-to-day pressures of the shareholder wealth maximization curse that stimulates, and often dictates,  environmentally and socially destructive actions in the short-run.  Proposal for chapters on these three topics and on any other topics on innovative approaches to achieving global sustainability are invited.

 

Proposals can be any length though 200 words are ideal. Please also include a brief biography mentioning any related publications and your degrees. Send these to both [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]

 

The deadline for proposals is April 10, 2007.  Chapter drafts will be due October 10, 2007.  The book will be published in 2008.