Harold and Margaret Sprout Award – Nominations sought

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
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