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Sustainable development has been identified as a key priority by the UK funding councils and by the Higher Education Academy.

Sustainability literacy is an attribute to which graduates of all disciplines should aspire. To date, there has often been comparatively limited knowledge exchange between the fields of Area Studies and Development Studies, but the global and interdisciplinary nature of both subjects would suggest that both ought to be primary sites for engaging with questions of environmental sustainability and climate change.

Call for Papers

Papers are welcomed in such areas as:

• Area Studies/ Development Studies links with the natural and physical sciences, economics and ethics.
• Human responses to climate change e.g. migration, conflict, disaster management
• Global North-South linkages and cooperation
• Linking teaching and research in sustainable development
• Practical examples of the integration of Area Studies and Development Studies teaching/learning in the field of Sustainable development.
• Theories in the practice of Area Studies and/ or Development Studies and their implications for education for sustainable development.

Please send a short abstract (about 250 words max) to John Canning by 15 November 2009.

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