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Dear colleagues and friends of the Greening of Industry Network,
There are a couple of news items we like to bring to your attention. Of course, we hope you will be able to join us next month in our GIN2010 conference in Korea. Registration is still open!
Please also visit our renewed website at www.greeningofindustry.org. Please note that we are still in the process of adding links and uploads.
All the best,
From the GIN Coordinating Team
www.greeningofindustry.org
Somporn Kamolsiripichaiporn
Theo de Bruijn
Kurt Fischer
Ilangovan Kuppusamy
Martin Lehman
Joseph Sarkis
Diego Vazquez
Kua Harn Wei
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· Registration open!
GIN2010: Climate Change and Green Growth: Innovating for Sustainability
June 13 - 16, 2010, Seoul, Korea
Conference chair prof. Jong-Dae Kim (Inha University, Korea)
Climate change is the single most critical issue actively discussed all over the world. The GIN2010 conference aims to provide a stage for the discussion of practical strategies to cope with climate change challenges; hence the conference title - Climate Change and Green Growth: Innovating for Sustainability. By focusing on climate change we will also be continuing the debate we have had at our conferences in 2009 in Mexico and Denmark.
For conference information, including the conference program, registration, hotels and tours, please go to http://www.gin2010.or.kr/
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· New book published
We are pleased to announce that that the book, “Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective” has just been published. Editors: Joseph Sarkis, James J. Cordeiro, and Diego Alfonso Vazquez Brust. Many of the chapters were first presented as papers at the GIN2009 conference in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. Please go to
http://www.springer.com/978-90-481-3158-7 for more information on the book.
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· Special Issue Call for Papers “Engineering Management and Sustainability”
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management is sponsoring a special issue on sustainable technology and engineering management research and practice.
Over the past three decades, the topic of sustainability has generated considerable attention in society. Sustainability requires new expertise and new skills in organizing, collaborating and communicating – both internally and externally.
The scope of this call for papers is necessarily broad to provide flexibility to researchers for developing topics and manuscripts on this evolving and emergent topic.
The following is a list of comprehensive, but not necessarily exhaustive, set of topics:
1. Management of green technology including technology transfer and diffusion of green technology within and across companies and industries.
2. Collaborative innovation for sustainability (partnerships between academia, governments, and private industry). How should organizations advance on the “innovation ladder” from simple, one-dimensional innovation to complex, societal innovations?
3. Innovation as a ‘co-evolutionary route.’ How do you prepare an organization for such a route? How can organizations build relevant competencies?
4. Sustainable and closed-loop supply chain management.
5. Design for the Environment (eco-design) and Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C) efforts.
6. Ecological modernization at the social and organizational level; the role of innovation in response to regulatory policy.
7. Training and integration of engineers and staff on sustainability topics.
8. Integrating life-cycle analysis into organizational projects.
9. Management of corporate social responsibility (CSR) systems (e.g. environmental, safety, health and management systems such as ISO 14000 and ISO 26000) and their dovetailing relationship to sustainability.
The complete anticipated schedule for the special issue is:
July 15, 2011: Deadline for submission of complete manuscript
October 15, 2011: Anticipated date for providing First-round Decision to Authors
January 15, 2012: Deadline for submission of First Revision
February 28, 2012: Completion of Final Decisions
Mid-2012: Publication of Special Issue
Special Issue Editors:
- Joseph Sarkis, Professor of Management, Clark University, Worcester, USA, jsarkis@clarku.edu.
- Theo De Bruijn, Professor of Sustainable Development, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Deventer, the Netherlands, t.j.n.m.debruijn@saxion.nl.
- Qinghua Zhu, Professor of Management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, PR of China. zhuqh@dlut.edu.cn.
The full text of the Call is attached to this newsletter.
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