Springer Nature has granted China New Development Awards to the Chinese authors of ten scholarly books in recognition of their exceptional contributions to the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These winning titles were selected from a total of over 800 books published in 2018 by the Springer Nature imprints Springer and Palgrave Macmillan, and authored by China-based researchers. They cover a wide range of discipline areas including social sciences and humanities, business and economics, engineering and technology, as well as life sciences and biomedicine. Two of these winning books focus on China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
In September 2015, the 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, calling for action by all countries to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. One year later, China released its own guidelines to implement the SDGs and made efforts to put into practice a new strategy of ‘innovative, coordinated, green, open and shared development.’
The 2030 Agenda provides a framework for all governments, businesses, organisations and society to work together to solve the world’s biggest challenges, such as poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, and peace and justice. Springer Nature, one of the world’s leading academic publishers, supports delivery of the SDGs through its publishing programme by sharing the discoveries that address the challenges of sustainable development.
The judging panel for the first China New Development Awards includes Springer Nature in-house editors and executives leading its SDG programme. Each of the ten winning titles involves at least one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and helps to address them in practice.
Academic books are used by authors to summarise and share their long-term research findings at a certain stage of their careers. Compared with journal papers, they are more complete and comprehensive in topic coverage, and are written more systematically. They also feature a longer shelf life; in particular, some classics on fundamental research and works used as textbooks remain long-standing because of their enduring academic and ideological values. Therefore, academic books have their unique role and advantage in helping understand and solve complicated, sustainability issues spanning across different aspects of knowledge.
Around 100 representatives from the research and publishing communities in China joined each other at the prize-giving ceremony for the awards held at this year’s Beijing International Book Fair, where they looked back on and celebrated years of achievements by the Chinese scholars.
Some selected chapters of all these winning books are available for free reading online and downloading until September 30, 2019.
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