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Call for chapters: Societal Resilience and Response to Contagious Diseases and Pandemics
IGI Global/Alexandria University, Egypt
Introduction
Societal, Social, and Community Resilience: For the first time in modern human history, the response to a global pandemic was required by all countries- poor and rich, developed and undeveloped- all of which took the most suitable intervening trajectory on the face of one enemy that reaped over 2.3 million lives and more than one hundred cases worldwide. Thus, it is essential to study the ability of human societies to cope with the hyper changes caused due to the pandemic. To gain more knowledge, learn from others, and adapt to what may come in the future. In this vein, the book will adopt and maintain an interdisciplinary-transdisciplinary approach; in terms of transcending the boundaries between sciences, especially between social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. Societal resilience is relatively a newly emerging concept in academia. It requires extensive research and more interdisciplinary studies. International conferences since mid-2019 shed light on the concept of Regional Urban Resilience (please refer to: The WB-Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Regional Urban Resilience Conference, April 2-4, 2019, Beirut, Lebanon).
The editors are keen to employ and foster a myriad of ideas coming from different scientific and academic backgrounds. The editors believe that as long as the book adopts various COVID-19 related topics, issues, and problems, it will be able to offer creative solutions and innovative interventions. The status quo of COVID-19 imposes a state of coexistence with the fierce mutated epidemic. It is expected to start anticipating the next steps instead of sitting in the spectator seat. It is also essential to raise the health awareness that is based on scientific objective research of illness behavior among all society’s segments. It is also essential to be armed by knowledge, through creating well-built databases to start drawing short and long-term scenarios based on objective futuristic studies.
Target Audience
In academia: professors, professionals, graduate students, and policymakers. Additionally, the invitation is open to experts, professionals, and academics within the fields of sociology, anthropology, law, economics, political sciences, media, history, geography, data management, education, urban planning and urban designing, nursing, and medical sciences, public health, and every academic discipline that might contribute to the topic of the book.
Submission of Chapter Proposals
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April 28, 2021, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter.
Please see the list of suggested topics for book chapters on the website link below.
