Take Part in a World Environmental Chronology
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the International Editorial Committee for the World Environmental Chronology (IECWEC), it is my pleasure and privilege to announce the launching of the World Environmental Chronology (WEC, to be published in English), initiated by the leading universities and researchers of the East Asian Countries and region, China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan in the field of social sciences and humanities.
The World Environmental Chronology is designed to be a collective handbook written in English on the environmental chronology of individual countries from the industrial revolution to the first decade of the 21st century. This project aims to publish of high quality chronology on specific topics in environmental problems and on a broad range of environmental issues of each country around the world. Prior to the World Environmental Chronology, a group of Japanese researchers published in November 2010 another collective book, General Environmental chronology: Japan and the world (Japanese version), which has been initiated by promising Japanese researchers who are mainly engaged in environmental sociology and environmental history. The World Environmental Chronology will succeed to affluent information in General Environmental chronology: Japan and the world (Japanese version), translate them in English, and collect additional information about countries which are not described in the Japanese version. Also, WEC is a core project of Hosei Institute for Sustainability Research and Education, an interdisciplinary research institution, is designed to merge an outcome of broader knowledge of sciences and humanities in the academic community.
The International Editorial Committee for the World Environmental Chronology, the IECWEC, recruits new contributors all over the world who can undertake the task of collecting information concerning environmental problems and policies in their own country. Especially, the IECWEC encourages any young researchers to participate as prospective authors and contributors in this project.
Features
The World Environmental Chronology contains 4 parts to enhance importance of the following main environmental issues; 1) pollution; 2) global environmental problems such as climate change and depletion of the ozone layer etc.; 3) biodiversity and natural resource conservation; 4) occupational disease and hazards; 5) environmental movement and policy; 6) cooperation and conflict between societies.
Part 1: Integrative History and chronology of environmental problems in East Asia
Ø Four chronologies and four articles which cover China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan.
Ø Detailed chronologies of four East Asian regions on the key environmental issues by the leading scholars in those regions.
Part 2: General Integrative Environmental Chronology in the World
Ø General perspectives on the selected environmental issues all over the world
Part 3: Specific Chronologies of individual countries in the world (participants and contributors welcomed!)
Ø About 100 chronologies of individual countries already covered.
Ø Countries covered are increasing, trying to cover most of the countries of the world.
Ø We announce that we are recruiting contributors for the new chronology on the countries which have not yet been covered (see the Table 1, copy & paste following URL into your Browser).
http://research.cms.k.hosei.ac.jp/sustainability/system/files/ListofCountriesTable1%2526Table2%2820112101%29.pdf
Part 4: Specific chronologies of specific topic on environmental problems
Ø About 20 chronologies on specific environmental topics such as climate change,
Nuclear energy and mercury pollution.
The Body: IECWEC (International Editorial Committee for the World Environmental Chronology)
International Editorial Committee for the World Environmental Chronology (IECWEC) has been organized for this collaborative project, the World Environmental Chronology, and the committee consists of the East Asian leading scholars from China, Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. The members of the committee, are: HONG Tayong(洪大用), Renmin University of China, and CHEN Ajian(陳阿江), Hohai University, from China; LEE Seejae(李時載), Catholic University of Korea, and KU Dowan(具度完), Environment and Society Research Institute, from Korea; WANG Juju(王俊秀) ,Tsinghua University, from Taiwan; TERADA Ryoichi (寺田良一), Meiji University, FUNABASHI Harutoshi(舩橋晴俊), Hosei University, Tokyo, from Japan. The members of International Editorial Committee for the World Environmental Chronology verify the contents of and can ameliorate these chronologies with their intellectual knowledge from the various fields and their keen awareness on the environmental issues and problems; from the Industrial Revolution to the first decade, the current situation, of the 21st century.
Working Committee
Along with the IECWEC, the working committee for publishing environmental chronologies has been formed by academic researchers of the social sciences and humanities. The secretariat of this project joins in the working committee, and is situated at the Hosei Institute for Sustainability Research and Education, in Japan.
Hosei Institute for Sustainability Research and Education
Hosei Institute for Sustainability Research and Education in Tokyo, Japan, was launched by Hosei University, in August 2009 with the appointment of the director, Professor Funabashi. This Institute, a progressive interdisciplinary research institution, has won various research funds and supplied all necessary funding for this chronology project by regarding the publications of chronologies as a core project of the institution. Working closely with the International Editorial Committee, the secretariat and the working committee work on all chronology projects. The major members of the secretariat have been employed as post-docs at the Hosei Institute.
Projections and Schemes (revised)
The current plan of the scheme is as follows (revised):
Ø April 2010 to December 2011
To publish General Environmental chronology: Japan and the world(Japanese version)
To recruit new contributors who can undertake making the chronology of the countries which have not yet been covered (see Table 1)
Ø April 2012
Deadline for the submissions on the chronologies, individual countries for Part 3
Ø May 2012 to March 2013
To complete whole chronologies of the World Environmental Chronology, Part1, Part2, Part3 and Part4.
Ø March 2013
To publish
Call for Contributors
All person who are interested in actual environmental problems are encouraged to take part as contributors to write chronologies of the countries, which have not yet been covered, on Table 1, for the completion of “part 3” of the World Environmental Chronology.
Ø General Information
Ø Language: submissions must be written in English or Japanese
Ø Two form of participation,
1. making a chronology of one country
2. collecting data that will be a part of one chronology
Ø Length:
1, when you make a chronology, standard length is from 2500 to 3500 words in
total (varies by the scale of the individual country) for 40 to 80 items.
2. when you collect data, you may choose freely its length.
Ø Format: Microsoft Excel format.
Ø Style: Contact us (to the secretaries below). The committee will send a set of the detailed instructions and sample chronologies.
Ø Author credit will be given depending on the degree of contribution to each chronology. The editorial committee will decide who will receive credit as the main author, co-author, as well as the order of the contributors on a chronology.
Ø All contributors are volunteer based, However, editorial committee is ready to offer honorarium for contributors who give us a certain amount of data or a chronology in English. Regarding to more detail information, please contact us.
Ø To Professional Researchers
Ø Welcomes the recommendation of any capable researchers (young researchers are welcomed) for this project
Ø To Students:
Ø Welcomes applications from any young researcher for this project
Any question, recommendation, application, and correspondence regarding the World Environmental Chronology should be mailed to (should be E-mailed or faxed to the secretaries in advance):
The International Editorial Committee for the World Environmental Chronology,
Tokyo Office
Hosei Institute for Sustainability Research and Education
2-17-1 Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-8160
Japan
TEL. +81-(3)-3264-9211 FAX. +81-(3)-3264-9218
Secretary General Junko HOSHI ()
The Committee invites you to participate in this project which, we believe, will offer a top quality environmental publication with new ideas.
Committee Chair, Prof. Harutoshi FUNABASHI
Director, Hosei Institute for Sustainability Research and Education
2-17-1 Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-8160, Japan
TEL. +81-(3)-3264-9211 FAX. +81-(3)-3264-9218
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