The Contributions of Sustainable Investments to Sustainable Development
Call for Papers for a Special Issue in Progress in Industrial Ecology - International Journal (PIE)
Guest Editors:
Pontus Cerin and Peter Dobers
Submissions deadline: September 1st, 2005
Being the linchpin in the increasingly globalised economy, the financial sector has the potential to play a key role in the international struggle towards Sustainable Development (SD) by steering today's but also tomorrow's resources usage. Increasingly, initiatives are taken by actors in the financial communicty to not only regard the fiduciary responsibilty of investors, but also to incorporate wider concerns of ethical, social environmental character.
The main objective of this special issues is to survey the SI phenomenon today, detecting and discussing present opportunities and obstacles, and importantly, to find roads for improvements, enhancing the imperative role that SIs can play in financing operations that ldead to improved environmental and social performances in concert with a thriving economy.
Papers submitted are subject to double blind reviews according to PIE and Inderscience standards. Full length papers with word count of 5000-7000 can be submitted to the guest editors no later than September 1st, 2005. For further guidelines, please consult the "Author Guidelines" available on the "Paper Submission" section of the Inderscience website at http://www.inderscience.com or corresponding section in an issue of PIE
Pontus Cerin, cerin@kth.se
Unit of Industrial Dynamics
Peter Dobers, dobers@kth.se
Unit of Industrial Management
Posted on June 24, 2005