Dear Colleagues, I share below a post to the gep-ed list from 27 July 2009 from Susan Park, Chair of this year's Sprout Award Committee. If you or your colleagues have published a book that may be eligible for the Sprout Award, you may wish to check with your publisher to confirm that your book has been submitted for consideration.
Note that the deadline for submissions is 15 December 2009. Yours, Michael Maniates (member of the 2010 Sprout Award Committee) ---- Dear Colleagues, Please note that the nominations for next year's Sprout Award for the best environmental book are now being accepted. If you or someone you know has just published a book please ask the publisher to submit it for the award. The details are below. Best, Susan *Harold and Margaret Sprout Award* ESS members who know of books, or have published books of their own, that they wish to see nominated for the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award are encouraged to contact publishers as soon as possible. The award is sponsored by the Environmental Studies Section, and is given to the best book in the field, one that makes a contribution to theory and interdisciplinarity, shows rigor and coherence in research and writing, and offers accessibility and practical relevance. Nominated books should address some aspect of one or more environmental, pollution or resource issues from a broadly international or transnational perspective, including works in (for example) global, interstate, transboundary, North-South, foreign policy, comparative or area studies. Environmental subjects of books can include (for example) environmental law, diplomacy, transnational activism, natural resource use, global change, sustainable development, biodiversity, transboundary pollution control, and the like. Nominated works must be published during 2008 or 2009. Books with a 2010 copyright date are welcome provided that they are released by year's end. Each publisher may nominate more than one book, and books nominated last year can be re-nominated. The committee members will begin reading the books as soon as they arrive. The committee must complete its review and reach its decision by early 2010 in time for presentation of the award at the annual meeting of the ISA in New York in February 2010. Therefore, we need to RECEIVE notice of nominations and receive copies of nominated books by 15 December 2009. Publishers wishing to nominate books should send one copy of each book to EACH member of the Sprout Award Committee. The names and addresses of committee members are listed below. Steinar Andresen Fridtjof Nansen Institute P.O. Box 326, 1326 Lysaker, NORWAY Tel: (+47) 67111900 Matthias Finger EPFL-CDM-TPI-MIR BAC 103, Station 5 1015 Lausanne SWITZERLAND Matthew J. Hoffmann Department of Political Science University of Toronto 100 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3 CANADA St. George (SS 3053) Tel: 416-978-6804 Scarborough (B-542) Tel: 416-287-7307 Michael Maniates Allegheny College Dept. of Political Science 520 N. Main Street Meadville, PA 16335 USA Tel. +1-814-332-2786 Susan Park Dept. of Government and International Relations Room 264, Merewether Building H04 The University of Sydney Sydney, NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA Tel. +61 2 9351 6593
