[ecrea] CFP: Communication and Sustainability Special Issue of Environmental Communication Journal

>Call for Manuscripts for a Special Issue of 
>Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature 
>and Culture Volume 5, Issue 1 (2012)
>
>Communication and Sustainability:  Exploring 
>Intersections of Science, Policy, Action, and Culture
>
>Editors: Harald Heinrichs (Leuphana Universität 
>Lüneburg) and Laura Lindenfeld (University of Maine)
>
>This special issue emerges from the perspective 
>that communication research and practice should 
>play a more prominent role in sustainability 
>science.  The collection of essays will consider 
>the ways in which communication scholarship and 
>practice can and should contribute to 
>sustainability science as part of larger global 
>sustainable development efforts.
>
>RATIONALE
>
>Coxâ¬"s articulation of environmental 
>communication as a crisis discipline recognizes 
>the constitutive and normative role of 
>communication in the definition of environmental 
>problems, and it provides an ethical basis for 
>recognizing, predicting, and addressing 
>environmental problems (2007).  As such, this 
>articulation calls for different ways of 
>thinking about and doing communication.  Coxâ¬"s 
>call to action suggests a model for 
>environmental communication that features 
>innovative linkages between research and 
>practice as well as increased collaboration with 
>other fields.  Whether defined as the process of 
>linking the production of knowledge with action, 
>collaborative learning, or the co-construction 
>of knowledge, this approach to environmental 
>communication scholarship aims to render the 
>research process more salient, legitimate, and 
>credible to stakeholders and communities who 
>require research for decision making.
>
>Sustainability science is an emerging 
>trans-disciplinary area that draws upon similar 
>assumptions about the criticality of 
>action-oriented scholarship in addressing global 
>environmental concerns and their linkages to 
>social and economic activities, as well as the 
>need to bring scholars, communities, and 
>stakeholders from diverse backgrounds 
>together.  Part of a larger sustainability 
>studies project, sustainability science aims to 
>develop, shape, and maintain resilient 
>ecological, economic, and social systems through 
>an inter- and trans-disciplinary, 
>action-oriented approach to research and praxis 
>(see, for example, issues of the new journal 
>Sustainability Science, published by Springer).
>
>The goals of sustainability science converge 
>with the type of practice-oriented research that 
>many environmental communication scholars do. 
>Yet, communication as a field has often been 
>underrepresented in sustainability science 
>research teams and programs around the 
>world.  This special issue provides an 
>opportunity to make a case for the centrality of 
>environmental communication in advancing ⬠
>and, when needed, in critiquing ⬠
>sustainability science and the global sustainability studies initiative.
>
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>This call for papers seeks empirically and 
>critically focused essays as well as conceptual 
>papers that build on the concept of 
>environmental communication as a crisis 
>discipline and a solutions-oriented, reflexive 
>discipline crisis framework by exploring a variety of topics, including:
>
>⬢     The various roles communication plays 
>and should play within sustainability studies and sustainability science, e.g.:
>a.      Communication in complex interdisciplinary collaboration
>b.      Communication in the production of 
>knowledge about sustainability as a process of 
>co-construction by communities and universities
>c.      Communication in the analysis of 
>sustainability science solutions to local and 
>global environmental/sustainability issues and concerns
>
>⬢     The various roles communication plays 
>and might play within sustainability practice, e.g.:
>d.      (new) media communication on sustainability,
>e.      sustainability marketing,
>f.      political communication on sustainability
>g.      communication in formal and informal education for sustainability
>h.      (Interpersonal) Communication in 
>participation and cooperation for sustainability
>
>⬢     Critiques of communication research and 
>practice in sustainability science and sustainability practice
>
>Manuscripts should be prepared in English, and 
>should not exceed 8,000 words including 
>references.  We are prepared to offer additional 
>editorial assistance for manuscripts that 
>examine the intersection of sustainability and 
>communication in non-English speaking regions. 
>The journal adheres to APA Style. Manuscripts 
>must not be under review elsewhere or have 
>appeared in any other published form. For 
>further details on manuscript submission, please 
>refer to the â¬ÜInstructions for authorsâ¬" on 
>the journalâ¬"s website 
>(http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t770239508~tab=sub...). 
>Upon notification of acceptance, authors must 
>assign copyright to Taylor and Francis and 
>provide copyright clearance for any copyrighted material.
>Manuscripts should be emailed to 
>(laura.lindenfeld /at/ umit.maine.edu) by March 31, 2011.
>

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