Call for Papers

Description

The International Journal of Green Economics proposes and fosters discussion on all aspects of Green Economics. It contributes to international research and practise in Green Economics with the aim of encouraging economic change and the positioning of Green Economics at the centre of the Economics disciplines. Green Economic theories and policies, tools, instruments and metrics are to be developed with the aim of offering practical and theoretical solutions and proposals to facilitate a change to the current economic models for the benefit of the widest number of people and the planet as a whole. It focuses particularly on resource management, on meeting peoples' needs and the impact and effects of international trends and how to increase social justice.

Objectives

The objectives of the journal are to establish an effective channel of communication between policy makers, government agencies, academic and research institutions concerned with the running, involvement and impact of the economy on all sections of society.

Its aims to bridge the gap between academic economic theory and the literature and suggestions for the implementation of modern concepts in the political economy and the general economic debate, structures of political power and public discussion. The development of an alternative view in contrast to the traditional normatively biased view of economics is the prime objective. The study of Green Economics naturally has to be very multi and interdisciplinary in nature, as the problems it addresses are partly social in aspect and causes, partly scientific in technical development, partly environmental as this is a fundamental limit to all human activity and partly economic and historical in how the current situations have evolved. Green Economics is also particularly influenced by developments in ethical thinking and values and in anthropology in its explanations of past and future trends. The scope of the journal includes examining, critiquing and analysing the activities of corporations with particular reference to the localisation/globalisation debate and making suggestions for change in practise and general function and approach.

The journal takes an international perspective, as modern economies are interdependent and internationally linked; the Green Economics discipline has therefore to be international in scope and in the solutions it proposes. The advisory board and activities are international in nature and the main management board consists of German, English, Brazilian and US personnel, with branches in Brazil and the US. The advisory board consists of a host of academics and practitioners, government members, policy makers and campaigners from round the world in order to meet the demands and the wide scope of the subject.

Readership

The journal provides a vehicle to help professionals, academics, researchers, policy makers and campaigners working in the fields of international business, economics and local, regional and national government to educate, influence lobby and share information and to learn from each others' work and best practise in the field as well as to provide a forum to explore new solutions to economic problems.

Content

The journal publishes original papers, review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries and news.

Special issues will be devoted to subjects such as globalisation/localisation, international economics etc. Our wide and very experienced advisory board (which is additional to our academic panel) are particularly being asked to develop topical and important subjects over time which they believe from their work and research to be of most relevance and interest.

Subject coverage

(This list is not exhaustive as new ideas and concepts are continuously assessed.) • Theories and concepts • Economic discourse and disciplines, compared, critiqued and contrasted in order to position Green Economics- including the following subjects • Environmental Economics • Welfare economics • Development economics • Fairtrade • Aid • Freedom • Costing resources • Neo classical • Neo Marxist • Neo colonial • Eco socialism • Eco feminism and women's economics • Foreign Direct investment • Trickle down theories • Game theory • New theories of human needs hierarchy v. supply and demand • Human Happiness • Implementation problems and issues in government • Structural Questions- International Institutions • Bretton Woods • EU • UN • IMF • World Bank • WTO • GATTS • Democracy and Privatisation • Buying politics- war, the arms trade, oil and the war on terrorism. • Trading blocks • New protectionism • International governance • Tobin Tax • Off shoring • Outsourcing • Multinationals and tariff barriers • New initiatives and cases, experience and applications • Green Solutions • Eco taxes • Resource management • New economic indicators • Zero waste • Site here to sell here • Re use • Recycle repair • Quality of life and consumerism • Co-ops • Land value issues • Resource valuation • New paradigms of the economy: nature, colonies, biosphere, non human species, women minorities, • Questions of 10,000 of agriculture and patriarchy dominating the economy- • Post agricultural social and economic requirements and organisation. • Planning to reduce surplus and not to harness it for power over others • Inclusive, participatory practises • Polluter pays • Critique of corporate activity • Triple bottom line • Stakeholder perspectives • Roles and activity within multinationals • Consumerism • Procurement • Processes of globalisation at a practical level • Corporate governance • Environmental management as an industry • Eco-labelling • Limiting the power of the multinationals • Shareholding as a means of gaining influence on the board • Grass roots activism • Civil society and attitudes to acceptable economic activity • Social justice in the economy • Indigenous rights • Less developed countries • Subsistence economies • Purchasing power parity • Balance of rich and poor in different societies • Poverty and its effects • Poverty and its definitions • Quality of life indicators • Tools for ensuring that policies involve justice • Environmental justice and consequences of a lack of it

Call for Papers

Original research papers or reviews in the format of a Journal are invited in the areas covered above.

Further information can be obtained from the Editor:

Miriam Kennet
6 Strachey Close
Tidmarsh
Reading
RG8 8EP
E-mail:greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com and GEIbooksandjournal@yahoo.co.uk

Miriam Kennet May 2007.