Call for Abstracts: “Networks and networking: Collaborative work, innovation and far-reaching approaches to multiple sustainability challenges”
摘要截稿: 2018-08-05
全文截稿: 2018-12-22
影响因子: 5.658
期刊难度:
CCF分类: 无
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 2区
• 小类 : 环境科学 - 2区
• 小类 : 绿色可持续发展技术 - 2区
Overview
What is the interplay between identifying and addressing complex sustainability issues and the mechanisms that facilitate collaborations at local/ regional /international and or inter to transdisciplinary levels? This COSUST Open Issue is focused on how networking has facilitated changes in the way we organize ourselves for knowledge sharing and generation and how this affects the way we think, analyze, and the solutions we propose to complex environmental sustainability problems. Since at least the early 1970’s, international research networks, intergovernmental platforms, and local-international alliances have contributed to shape how scientific knowledge is developed, distributed, and put into practice to influence change in policy and practice. Increasingly, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaborations along with change in funding models, the emergence of big data, the rise of the internet, a variety of web-based interaction mechanisms including the role of social media are transforming how people communicate, interact, and problem solve. This effect on the environmental sustainability research and problem framing has been equally profound, as reflected in concepts and analytical approaches behind earth systems sciences, Anthropocene, social-ecological systems, , complex adaptive systems and system transitions, connectivity and nexus, multi-level governance, commodity chains and assemblages, telecoupling and teleconnections, and a range of others.
In this Open Issue, we would like to invite abstracts discussing the emergence of collaborative research-practice networks and how they help to advance understanding and solutions to complex sustainability problems. We look forward to receiving manuscript proposals that address one or more of the following issues:
- How have interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary science been driven by and or lead to the rise of local to international research networks in a variety of application areas within environmental sustainability?
- How have research networks fostered or constrained the development of new knowledge generation? In what ways have networks and networking contributed to the emergence of new types of conceptual framings and collection of data types and their integration to address sustainability issues?
- Have international networks allowed for greater research capacity among researchers in the Global South and greater Global South and North research collaboration?
- How have research networks fostered or constrained gender equity in research, the co-production of knowledge and elevation of indigenous and local knowledge in the research literature?
- How have research networks contributed to the role of science in policy and society as a whole?
- How has the emergence of global wide environmental sustainability challenges influenced the way research on environmental sustainability at regional, national, and local scales is advanced?
- How have networks fostered or constrained the research community’s response to key international science questions including biodiversity loss, disaster risk reduction, climate change, and urbanization especially in the context of big data/big science and the links between the physical sciences and social sciences and other disciplinary pursuits.
- What is the connection between funding models, institutional support and the structure, extent/scale of networking and interlinkages between research networks? How does this influence the type, quality, and robustness of knowledge created? How have networks affected the possibility of breakthrough new science?
We are especially interested in analytical and integrative assessment-oriented manuscripts. Those including authors from the Global South are particularly encouraged to submit. Articles simply reviewing and summarizing the work and activities of one organization or group is not a key focus on the Open Issue.