Authors needed for new encylopedia on sustainability
The editorial board for Achieving Sustainability: Visions, Principles, and Practices (a new encyclopedia from Macmillan Reference USA, part of Cengage Learning) is looking for authors for the remaining twelve entries. The Google Drive link below gives details about each remaining entry (title, scope, word count):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsksYoF_ZGtOdGI4R0FfVktuLXZjTVUteDQ3b1l1T1E#gid=0
The due date is Monday, July 22, 2013 by midnight. Interested authors (especially graduate students) should a) view the Google Drive link and enter their full names & email addresses next to the entries for which they are volunteering; and, b) email a resume and writing sample (minimum of 5 pages). [Multiple authors may volunteer for the same entry.] As entries are placed with authors, they will be taken off of the Google Drive link. Authors will be notified via email if assigned.
For more information, please contact:
Laurie Malashanko
Content Project Editor, Reference Production
Gale | Cengage Learning
27500 Drake Rd., Farmington Hills, MI 48331-3535
(p) 248-699-8353 | (f) 248-699-8069
(e) laurie.malashanko@cengage.com
More information on the project is copied below.
Achieving Sustainability: Visions, Principles, and Practices
a new encyclopedia from Macmillan Reference USA, part of Cengage Learning
Editor in Chief: Debra Rowe
Board Editors: Susan Gentile and Terry Link
Sustainable development creation is essential to a future of reduced human suffering, higher quality of life, and ongoing sustenance from the planet’s ecosystems. Achieving Sustainability is designed to increase understanding, inform actions, enrich academic assignments, and enhance research. Aimed at readers who are not experts in the field, the material will be relevant to courses in natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities; indeed, this title will present and analyze the underpinnings of the multi-disciplinary concept of sustainability. A two-volume encyclopedia containing more than 130 signed entries, Achieving Sustainability will cover economic and environmental ideas, as well as governance, demographic, and socio-cultural aspects of the concept.
The articles should reflect all viewpoints currently defended in academia as well as in more accessible discussion environments, and substantiated accordingly. While complete objectivity is unattainable, honesty must permeate all writing on what ideas are circulating and who their champions are. This reference work is intended to meet the needs of students and educators in high schools, community colleges, and four-year colleges, as well as the interested layperson.