The Editor of the Journal of Cleaner Production (JCLP), Prof. Dr. Donald Huisingh, is proud to welcome Prof. Dr. Desheng Dash WU, Prof. Dr. David L. Olson and Prof. Dr. John R. Birge as guest-editors of the Special Issue of the JCLP that will be devoted to “Risk Analysis, Risk Reduction and Cleaner Production”.

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The JCLP serves as an interdisciplinary, international forum for the exchange of information and research results on the visions, technologies, processes, products, policies and concepts designed to help ensure progress towards sustainable societies. Achieving cleaner production demands a great deal of risk analysis and risk reduction of Cleaner Production, Cleaner Products and more Sustainable Services, which are less risky for the workers, the customers and for the environment. The JCLP has agreed to publish a special issue dedicated to the theme of “Risk Analysis & Risk Reduction and Cleaner Production” in the autumn of 2011.

The Special Issue team will select and publish 12–15 top quality papers on recent advances in using risk analysis tools to help in the reduction of risks in all aspects of Cleaner Production and Services. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and applied articles addressing the theme of this special issue.

The 1st international conference on Sustainability & Risk Management will be held at Chongqing Municipality, P. R. China June 12th–13th, 2010 co-organized by RiskChina Research Center (http://www.risklabchina.ca) at the University of Toronto. Additionally the 7th International Conference on Innovation and Management (ICIM) will be held in Wuhan, P. R. China December 4th–5th, 2010. The best papers submitted for presentation at both conferences will be selected to potentially be included in this special issue, however papers are also solicited from people who will not or did not have the opportunity to attend either conference.

1. Topics

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Cleaner Production and environmental safety;

 

• Clean Service risk reduction;

• Risk analysis and risk reduction in the life cycle management of products and services;

• Risk issues in product planning and production control;

• Financial aspects of environmental and sustainable development;

• Low-carbon economy uncertainty and cleaner products and services;

• Improvements in holistic environmental performance evaluations;

• Advances in risk reduction due to approaches such as portfolio optimization, supply-chain management and extended producer responsibility;

• Advances in reduction of the life cycle usage of energy, water and other materials;

• Improvements in the integration of environmental quality, worker health and safety, consumer product safety and corporate social responsibility management;

• Advances in applications of renewable energy and other low-carbon technologies and products;

• Reduction in uncertainty in corporate social responsibility and corporate sustainability reporting;

• Risk management strategy in Industrial Ecology and Regional Sustainable Development;

• Case studies on how to improve the performance of products and services by supply-chain coordination under uncertainties;

• Case studies on how to improve the performance of products and services by management innovations;

2. Manuscript preparation and submission

To prepare their manuscripts, authors are asked to closely follow the “Instructions to Authors” which can be found on the Journal of Cleaner Production home page: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/30440/authorinstructions

Manuscripts of not more than 8000 words will be refereed according to the standards of Journal of Cleaner Production. All papers will be rigorously, refereed by 3–4 peer-reviewers.

Authors are invited to access published JCLP papers in order to show the relevance of their work to the scope and content already published within the JCLP.

To submit your article online, go to: http://ees.elsevier.com/jclepro. When asked to indicate the “Article Type” in the submission process, please select “Special Issue: Cleaner Production and Risk”. All papers will be handled through the EES. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

3. Tentative schedule

Submission of full papers: 15 Dec. 2010

Submission revised papers: 30 May 2011

Final decision notification: 15 August 2011

For further information, or to discuss ideas for contributions, please contact any of the corresponding Guest-Editors.

You may also confer with the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cleaner Production, Professor Dr. Donald Huisingh, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it