---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Sustainable development CFC -deadline extended Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:09:21 +0800 From: Mohammed Quaddus QuaddusM.CBS.CBS@CBS.CURTIN.EDU.AU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

Dear All,

Apologies for cross posting. Few researchers have asked for some extra time to submit the chapter proposal. The new deadline is now June 22. Please submit your proposal by this new deadline. See below for original CFC. Cheers.

==Mohammed Quaddus _____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

M Quaddus and A Siddique (Eds), (2002), A Handbook of Sustainable Development Planning: Studies in Modelling and Decision Support, Edward Elgar Publishers (Cheltenham, UK; Northamton, MA, USA).

We are pleased to announce that Edwad Elgar Publishers will publish the above book.

THE THEME OF THE BOOK

The theme of the book has been chosen with contributions from distinguished scholars in the areas of sustainable development and model-based systems in sustainability of development in mind. The dimensions of sustainable development and its modelling changed significantly during the last quarter of the twentieth century.

In 1987, The World Commission on Environment and Development (WECD) published a volume titled, Our Common Future which became the most cited reference for the concept of sustainable development. In that book, WECD defines sustainable development as the development that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (p.8).

Since the publication of Our Common Future sustainable development has become a major concern for policy makers and planners in both the developed and developing countries. With gradual extension of the dimensions of sustainable development over the years, policy makers and planners have increasingly faced problem of finding an appropriate approach to plan the 'sustainability' of development. Given the multi-dimensional nature of the concept of sustainable development, it is not unusual that no single model would be good enough to plan the 'sustainability' of development.

Perhaps one of the first formal models to deal with the sustainability of developed was developed by Meadows et al., (1972) in The Limits to Growth. Although they did not define the concept of sustainable development in their book, but their concern was sustainability of development resulting from the interrelationships of industrialization, population growth, malnutrition, depletion of natural resources and deterioration of environment.

The necessity for the application of scientific models in sustainable development became an international concern with the publication of Agenda 21 by the United Nations Department of Public Information in 1993. Chapter 35 (Science for sustainable development) of Agenda 21 specifically acknowledges the role of model-based systems for achieving sustainable development in the following words (p. 257): "One role of the sciences should be to provide information for better enable formulation and selection of environment and development policies in the decision-making process."

Most recent research has reported three important issues of sustainable development planning. These are: (i) consideration of multiple criteria, (ii) accommodation of group diversities, and (iii) the inclusion of group preferences. Model based systems which support decision-making activities, like Decision Support System (DSS) and more recently Group Decision Support System (GDSS), address the above issues efficiently and effectively

With the publication of The Limits to Growth in 1972, Our Common Future in 1987, and The Agenda 21 in 1993, model based systems continued to play important role in sustainable development planning. However, to the best of our knowledge, very few attempts have been made to publish a book containing articles in this increasingly important area. Although fragmented applications of these model-based systems in sustainable development planning have appeared in the literature, we strongly believe that many more applications of model-based systems in sustainable development planning have been made which have not been reported in the literature. The time is now right to publish a book with the contributions from the scholars of the experience and caliber of those who have dedicated their research efforts in sustainable development and development of model based systems for achieving sustainable development.

THE PLAN OF THE BOOK

The primary objective of this proposed book is to portray the current status and future directions of applications of model based systems in sustainable development planning. Our definition of "model" is quite broad, which might include both "hard" and "soft" approaches. But we are primarily interested in the use of these model-based systems in decision-making activities/phases of sustainable development planning process. With this principal objective in mind, the book will also deal with the evaluation of the nature and significance of changes in the dimensions of sustainable development and related model based systems during the last quarter of the twentieth century; and the emerging trends and challenges in the application of model based systems in decision making process for sustainable development planning in the first quarter of the twenty-first century.

Thus, the book will be organised in three main parts. Part I will evaluate the nature and significance of changes in the dimensions of sustainable development and related model based systems during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Chapters in Part 2 of the book will deal with case studies and applications of model based systems (including DSS and GDSS) in sustainable development planning in the following areas:

(1) Environmental management, (2) Mining, (3) Energy management, (4) Land and water management, (5) Agriculture, (6) Fisheries, (7) Tourism, (8) Service industries, (9) Telecommunications, (10) Transport, (11) Poverty alleviation, (12) Primary health care, (13) Governance, (14) Education, (15) Pollution control, (16) Economic planning, (17) Urban planning, (18) Family planning.

The concluding part of the book will foreshadow emerging trends and challenges in the application of model based systems in decision making process for sustainable development planning in the first quarter of the twenty-first century.

As editors of the book, we now invite proposals for contributing chapters in this book from the scholars and practitioners whose main area of research has been in the area of (a) sustainable development and (b) the application of model based systems in decision making process for sustainable development.

FORMAT OF PROPOSAL

Please submit a proposal (about 3 pages double spaced) that should contain: chapter title, objectives of the chapter, outline of the chapter, and theoretical and practical contributions of the chapter proposed. Proposals should be formatted and submitted as an MS Word 97 (or higher) document.

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSAL

June 11, 2001.

NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE

June 25, 2001.

DEADLINE FOR FULL CHAPTER

August 31, 2001.

CAMERA READY COPY

All chapters will be peer-reviewed for rigor and quality. Authors of the chapters need to prepare the final versions based on referees' reports and editors' comments. Revised camera-ready copy (following the guidelines of Edward Elgar Publishers to be provided later on) should be submitted by October 30, 2001.

Please send your proposal to one of the following persons:

Dr Mohammed A Quaddus Dr M A B Siddique

Associate Professor Director Graduate School of Business Centre for Migration & Development Studies Curtin Business School Department of Economics Curtin University of Technology The University of Western Australia GPO Box U 1987 35 Stirling Highway Perth, Western Australia, 6845 Crawley, Western Australia, 6009 Australia Australia Telephone: Telephone: International + 61 8 9266 2862 (direct)/3460 International: + 61 8 9380 2941 (direct)/2918/3414 National: 08 9266 2862 (direct)/3460 National: 08 8 9380 2941 (direct)/2918/3414 Facsimile: Facsimile: International: + 61 8 9266 3368 International: + 61 8 9380 1016 National: 08 9266 3368 National: 08 9380 1016 E-mail: quaddusm@gsb.curtin.edu.au E- Mail: asiddiqu@ecel.uwa.edu.au ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________

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