[ecrea] Call for Manuscripts for a Special Issue of Environmental Communication

> 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
>
>  Cox?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.  Cox?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 ?Instructions for authors? 
> on the journal?s website 
> (www.informaworld.com/renc). Upon notification 
> of acceptance, authors must assign copyright to 
> Taylor and Francis and provide copyright 
> clearance for any copyrighted material.
>
> Manuscripts should be submitted to MANUSCRIPT 
> CENTRAL per instructions on the web site, with a 
> cover letter attached indicating that you want 
> the submission to be considered for the special 
> issue.  Deadline is March 31, 2011.  Questions 
> can be directed to emailed to 
> <mailto:(laura.lindenfeld /at/ umit.maine.edu)>(laura.lindenfeld /at/ umit.maine.edu).
>
> Please disseminate this CFP to any colleagues who might be interested.

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