Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice

ISSN: 2051-5030
Previously published as: Advances in Ecopolitics

Editor: Liam Leonard
Subject: Environmental Management / Environment (view other series in this subject area)
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Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice includes a range of publications which each discuss a significant element in the environmental theory which now represent an important aspect of sustainable living.

Editorial Objectives

Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice provides a series of insights into real alternatives to the current economic malaise, with an examination of key themes such as transition towns, sustainable utopias, co-operative farming, sustainability and activism, ecofeminism, green protectionism, intentional communities, environmental justice,  environmental movements, green philosophies, politics and green economics.

Topicality

Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice provides a series of environmental alternatives which require our fullest consideration in light of the ongoing economic downturn which has accompanied the latest incarnation of unsustainable practices. The book series provides a forum for debate about a positive set of sustainable alternatives which set out an understanding that 'another world is possible'.

Key Benefits

Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice is essential reading for all academics, researchers and practioners who are involved in the areas of environmentalism. The series:

• Acts as a forum for debate and the publication of papers which estabish understandings of environmentalism and sustainability.
• Provides a unique opportunity for the exchange of peer reviewed knowledge on the widest extent of environmental and ecological issues.
• Allows for the establishment of working networks of environmental academics from across the globe.

Key Audiences

Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice particularly encourages academics, researchers and practitioners from  Europe, North America, and from developing nations to share their experience, knowledge and practices with an international audience. Contributors from across the globe that focus on issues and research which will affect and inform ecopolitical studies are welcome to submit work for consideration in the series.

Coverage

The series encourages well-written articles with the focus on interdisciplinary, international and comparative standpoints on contemporary management issues. Coverage includes, but is not restricted to:

• Ecological politics
• Sustainable development
• Environmental philosophy
• Green party politics
• Environmental economics
• Environmental movements
• Ecofeminism
• Sustainable living practices

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The Editor

Dr. Liam Leonard is a Lecturer in Sociology at the Institute of Technology, Sligo in the Republic of Ireland. Having lectured in Sociology and Politics at the National University of Ireland, Galway, he has been at IT Sligo since 2008. As the Founder and Senior Editor of the internationally renoun Ecopolitics Online Journal and author of several books on environmental issues, Dr. Leonard has been to the fore in promoting environmental issues through academic publishing. Dr. Leonard aims to continue this with the Emerald Book Series Advances in Ecopolitics. Dr. Leonard's current research aims to combine his expertise in environmental politics, environmental justice and environmental criminology in order to extend understandings of these issues.

Contact the Editorial Team

Series Editor
Liam Leonard
liam_leonard@yahoo.com

Volumes within this series

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Online table of contents

Print copy & more information

For more information about any of the volumes listed below, or to purchase a print copy, please click on the relevant volume title:

• Principles and Strategies to Balance Ethical, Social and Environmental Concerns with Corporate Requirements, Volume 12
• International Business, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Volume 11

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