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