Call for Papers: Marginalized Populations and the Zika Virus
Now that there are confirmed cases of Zika in the U.S., the question is “who is most at risk and why” here in America?
As Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Justice, I invite your manuscript submissions that explore why those who are most at risk will be members of communities who are already socially, economically, environmentally, and culturally marginalized.
The increase in vector-borne diseases like Zika with climate change has been predicted by environmental health and medical researchers for over a decade. “Humanity passed a milestone a few years ago when more than half the population had moved to urban areas, but spending on health care and on basic public health infrastructure, like water pipes and sewers, has not kept pace. Mosquito control has also faltered in recent decades.” (read more from this article here)
Zika and its documented relationship to microencephalitis for pregnant women is an important disease to explore in the journal, especially for existing environmental justice communities due to the added generational effect for full participation and equality. The individuals and populations suffering greater environmental health risks have also tended to live in urban areas or rural areas with poor infrastructures and poor public / environmental health policies. We welcome papers on Zika and Climate Justice that will examine the history and current state of vector-borne disease control tied to race, gender, climate change, housing, planning, engineering infrastructures, public health, community health, and maternal/infant care.
Submission Deadline: January 1, 2017
Please submit your papers online to our web-based manuscript submission and peer-review system here.
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Editorial questions?
Contact Editor-in-Chief: Sylvia Hood Washington
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Contact: Author Services
Call for Papers: #NoDAPL, A Last Stand for Environmental Justice? Indigenous Rights and America’s Push for Independence
The Standing Rock Sioux, other tribal nations, environmental groups, and activists, are gathered together in support of the tribe’s concerns in a continuous struggle to stop the final phase of completion of the North Dakota Pipeline. The ongoing conflict as demonstrated in a standoff with law enforcement representatives, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the pipeline company has garnered international attention.
Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux, Dave Archambault II’s resolve to protect the tribe’s water resource from contamination/damage by fossil fuel transport, violation of their sacred land, encroaches on fishing rights remains unabated to deny easement through their treaty land, despite harsh winter conditions and the possibility of an imminent forced evacuation. This is now moot with the recent announcement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that it would consider alternate routes for the pipeline which didn’t travel under Lake Oahe, and that there will be an Environmental Impact Statement with full public input and analysis. This is a fragile victory as there is not yet a final decision as to the final route of the almost completed pipeline, and possible further legal challenges exist.
We are seeking papers that will examine and elucidate the current, historic and future struggles for environmental justice, environmental health equity, water rights and equitable sustainable development as they pertain to the creation of the Dakota Access Pipeline. We welcome papers that explicitly examine the costs or benefits of developing independent national energy sources in the age of climate change on American soil and the role of sovereignty in creating energy independence for non-indigenous groups. Finally, we seek papers that address how the failure to stop the DAP might increase environmental health risks for all Americans.
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2017
Please submit your papers online to our web-based manuscript submission and peer-review system.
Editorial questions?
Contact Editor-in-Chief: Sylvia Hood Washington
Manuscript preparation or technical questions?
Contact: Author Services
Call for Papers: Is There a Future for Environmental & Climate Justice in the Era of Trump?
After President-elect Trump’s recent controversial and polarizing choice of Myron Ebell to handle his transition plans for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), what can we expect for the already marginalized communities who are most susceptible to the effects of environmental damage?
Long a climate change skeptic, Ebell and his boss in the next administration will push to take the United States out of the Paris climate treaty and eliminate the Obama Clean Power Plan for greenhouse gases, in addition to increasing our reliance on oil, gas, and “clean coal.”
As Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Justice, I invite your manuscript submissions that explore why those who are most at risk will be members of communities who are already socially, economically, environmentally, and culturally marginalized.
If the EPA is gutted by the Trump administration and stripped of its purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress, what will be the consequences?
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2017
Please submit your papers online to our web-based manuscript submission and peer-review system.
Editorial questions?
Contact Editor-in-Chief: Sylvia Hood Washington
Manuscript preparation or technical questions?
Contact: Author Services