PHM-Exch> Fwd: call for papers on the Extractive Industies - New Solutions

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Leslie London <leslie.london at uct.ac.za>



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*Call for Papers*

*New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occuaptional Health Policy*

*Extractive Industries*

In 2012, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights
obligations related to environmentally sound management and disposal of
hazardous substances and waste released a report on the extractive
industries. The report highlighted the many ways in which unsound
management of hazardous substances and waste in the extractive industries
was impacting adversely on human rights and on health and contributing
substantially to a growing burden of disease globally.



This report coincided with growing international concern following a number
of high profile disasters in the mining and petroleum industries. At the
same time, the social impacts of the extractive industries, through
displacement of communities, disruption of local economic livelihoods,
social disruption and contamination of water and other environmental media,
associated with environmental degradation, was increasingly emerging as the
target of popular campaigns.

Some have argued that the very act of removing "a natural resource from its
natural surroundings for industrial purposes without provision for their
renewal in a socially, economically or environmentally viable timeframe" is
inherently a destructive practice and incompatible with environmental
sustainability.  Furthermore, it appears that, in many parts of the world,
sectors of the extractive industries, particularly in mining, remain
dependent on unskilled labour and the perpetuation of inequality continues
through a deliberate absence of skills development. Are there viable and
less polluting alternatives to extraction of natural resources as vehicles
for sustainable livelihoods?

*New Solutions* *seeks submissions* for a special issue that will focus on
the extractive industries. Extractive industries are defined as processes
that involve the extraction of raw materials from the natural environment
to be used for consumption and include the mining of precious and other
metals (e.g. gold, silver, iron, manganese, tin, asbestos and rare-earth
metals, amongst others), and the extraction of energy sources such as coal,
uranium, natural gas, oil sources such as oil shale and tar sands, as well
as dredging and quarrying for primary materials. Because New Solutions is a
policy journal, manuscripts, including scientific papers, should include a
perspective that addresses relevant policy concerns. Manuscripts are
welcome for any of its journal sections, including: Scientific Solutions,
Feature Articles, Movement Solutions, Documents, Voices, and Comment and
Controversy.

Potential topic areas include:

·         Health and safety in the extractive industries - obstacles,
opportunities and accountability

·         Waste management practices in the extractive industries and their
impact on the health of workers and communities;

·         Systems for the prevention and compensation of work-related
illness and injury in the extractive industries

·         Health and environmental impacts of small-scale mining

·         Uranium mining and its impact

·         The relationship between the growth of extractive industries in
Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income countries and social policy impacting on
health

·         Legal and civil society struggles for health and safety in the
extractive industries

·         Extractive industries operating in countries experiencing armed
conflict

·         The role of trade unions in promoting health and safety in
relation to the extractive industries

·         The human rights impacts of extractive industries and their
relationship to health and the environment.

·         Gender concerns in the extractive industries

·         Labour migration and the extractive industries

·         Conditions of work, outsourcing, sub-contracting and living
conditions associated with employment in the extractive industries

We encourage submissions that highlight possible alternatives or solutions
and examples of positive community responses and activities.

For information about the journal and to view instructions for authors,
please visit the journal website: www.newsolutionsjournal.com or
http://baywood.com/journals/previewjournals.asp?id=1048-2911

Submissions must be made online at www.newsolutionsjournal.com by *July 15,
2014*. Earlier submissions are encouraged to ensure consideration.
Pre-submission inquiries may be sent to the editors: leslie.london at uct.ac.zaand
Sophia at gmail.com

Special Issue Guest Editors: Leslie London and Sophia Kisting

Editor: Craig Slatin


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