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SUBMIT YOUR BOOK PROPOSAL Common Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication. Unlike other publishers, we‘re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We‘re only interested in the intellectual quality of the work. If a book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too, but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality. TYPES OF BOOKS Each <strong>conference</strong> and journal community has an accompanying book imprint. We welcome proposals or completed manuscript submissions of: � Individually and jointly authored books � Edited collections addressing a clear, intellectually challenging theme � Collections of papers published in The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses Editorial selection can occur after the <strong>conference</strong>; or a group of authors may first wish to organize a colloquium at the <strong>conference</strong> to test the ideas in this broader intellectual context. PROPOSAL GUIDELINES Books should be between 30,000 and 150,000 words in length. They are published simultaneously in print and electronic formats. To publish a book, please send us a proposal including: 38 � Title � Author(s)/editor(s) � Back-cover blurb � Table of contents � Author bionote(s) � Intended audience and significance of contribution � Sample chapters or complete manuscript � Manuscript submission date Proposals can be submitted by email to books@commongroundpublishing.com. Please note the book series that you are submitting to in the subject line.
RECENT BOOKS PUBLISHED BY COMMON GROUND Limited quantities are available for purchase at the Registration Desk. These and other books are available at http://on-climate.com/books/. Building our Sustainable Cities by Rita Yi Man Li Sustainable development has become a hot topic worldwide in recent decades. Following the Copenhagen Summit, politicians and the general public were once again faced with the reality of inevitable climate change. Is there anything we can do to stop global warming? Are there any possible ways to achieve the goal of zero carbon? What can we, as laymen in the global village, do in the coming years so that future generations can enjoy a natural environment similar to ours? This book consists of three parts. The first part is an introduction that provides a general overview of sustainable development in China, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Australia. The second part introduces the concept of sustainability in the built environment. The <strong>third</strong> part of this book focuses on sustainable land use planning in Hong Kong. Learning Nature: How the Understanding of Nature Enriches Education and Life by Ruyu Hung Learning Nature presents exciting scholarship on the exploration of the concept of nature and its implications for education. The author—Ruyu Hung—argues that ―nature‖ is a rich and fundamental source of meaning to enable one to learn to live a meaningful life and yet that what is taught about nature in many conventional curricula is severely limited, resulting in an impoverishment of meaning. The central aim of this book is to provide different approaches to the understanding of nature in order to show the fecund meanings that have rich educational significance and the implications for pedagogy. Interrogating the educationally meaningful conceptions of nature, this book identifies five themes to anchor our multifarious understandings of nature. Each theme with its implying polarities illuminates the significance of the human conceptualisation of nature as an on-going dynamic and dialectic process. The investigations invite the readers to envisage and reconfigure education so as to accommodate heterogeneous and plural views of nature and reveal the abundance of meaning to be had in different ways of experiencing nature in the context of one‘s unique life. The Sustainability Practitioner’s Guide to Input-Output Analysis edited by Joy Murray and Richard Wood This book provides an introduction to input-output analysis for sustainability practitioners. It is designed for those with knowledge about the sustainability dilemma we face, but who are unsure about the how of measuring our impacts, tracking our progress and informing the decisions for a sustainable future. Input-output analysis placed in a transdisciplinary setting is a method that captures the complexities and interdependencies of our social, economic and environmental support systems. Examples of the use of input-output analysis in life-cycle assessment, triple bottom line accounting and carbon and ecological footprints are provided along with an introduction to a range of software tools. In academic circles research has been gathering pace on these methods and issues over the last years. This book brings this state of the art to the decision makers and policy shapers of today. 39
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