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Environmental epidemiology includes evaluation of the health effects from exposure to biologic, physical, and chemical factors in the external environment. These factors can be either isolated geographically or widespread, be spatially and/or temporally heterogeneous, and can co-occur with other exposures. Characterizing environmental exposures is a key challenge in the field; the complexity of exposure assessment means that a range of approaches exist, from surveys and biomarkers of exogenous exposures or downstream metabolites to use of regulatory monitoring and other secondary data and predictive modeling approaches. Major knowledge gaps in the field include understanding the importance of the timing of exposure, exposure mixtures, and identification of vulnerable populations, as well as estimating ongoing changes in the interaction of environmental factors associated with climate change and consequent health impacts both in the United States and globally.

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Relative role of age groups and indoor environments in influenza transmission under different urbanization rates in china.

Exploring the relative role of different indoor environments in respiratory infections transmission remains unclear, which is crucial for developing targeted nonpharmaceutical interventions. In this study, a total of 2,583,441 influenza-like illness cases tested from 2010 to 2017 in China were identified. An agent-based model was built and calibrated with the surveillance data, to assess the roles of 3 age groups (children <19 years, younger adults 19–60 years, older adults >60 years) and 4 types of indoor environments (home, schools, workplaces, and community areas) in influenza transmission by province with varying urbanization rates. When the urbanization rates increased from 35% to 90%, the proportion of children aged <19 years among influenza cases decreased from 76% to 45%.

Integrating Data Across Multiple Sites in the Northeastern United States to Examine Associations Between a Prenatal Metal Mixture and Child Cognition

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This Special Issue will feature a broad range of contributions on all aspects of the environmental impacts of wildland fire, including but not limited to outdoor and indoor air quality, water and soil contamination, climate, and human health. Submit your manuscript by September 2, 2024.

Wildland fires have been significantly increasing in magnitude, intensity, and destruction in the past several decades, becoming a prevalent topic of concern for many environmental scientists around the world. Furthermore, prescribed fire has been increasingly used to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires—and combined, the impact of wildland fires on local, regional, and global scales is becoming even more important as emissions from other sources have been reduced through regulations. Therefore, for the last several years, there have been increased research efforts to better understand wildland fire emissions, chemistry, aging, and its impacts on air quality, water, climate, and health.

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Sustainable development consists of both natural environmental changes as well as changes caused by humans. Green growth, more energy efficiency, cleaner energy technologies and sustainable development are regularly considered as harmonizing goals by international policy makers. Public and private investment strength growth in employment in economic activities, infrastructure and assets that reduce pollution, augment energy and resource efficiency and bring biodiversity loss to an end. Economic activities and energy consumption and the associated issues like decoupling, energy consumption and security, trade and the environment, green industrialization and greening the workplace, digitalization and green communications, corporate social responsibility are among the issues to be explored.  The green economy concept with low carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive, is an important term in international agendas. Together with the faced economic crisis, the current Covid-19 pandemic but also the climate crisis and the view that policies to attain sustainability cannot be put into operation efficiently, policy makers anticipate a solution from the greening of the economy. The functioning of green economy, sustainable consumption and production and resource efficiency for achieving sustainability with less natural resources utilization, waste generation and pollution and more green investments and employment. The aim of this special issue is to address the achievement of sustainable development by addressing the status and progress of current issues of concern. Specifically, the call focuses on Green economic and energy management and sustainability of economic processes and systems, including methods, practices, tools, applications, and experiences dedicated to these issues of sustainability. Theoretical and empirical findings of the international experience will provide the framework to answer questions about the efficient integration of green economy policies with both national economic as well as social priorities and aims that a greener and more inclusive economy may offer and facilitate a sustainable development and the fulfilment of Task 8 and the other associated SDGs. The topical collection will be of immense value to policymakers, researchers, and planners with an interest in maintaining and improving their community’s energy system, both securely and sustainably. The applied theoretical and analytical contributions are expected to provide guidance to policy-makers and government officials in designing new policy scenarios for the investigation of green economy and sustainability. The empirical contributions should provide evidence to support and inform current policy debates. Toward those goals, we seek studies that address research questions including, but not limited to:  

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Critical Plant Studies , a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives . A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to: • Representations of plants in literature, art, film, and popular culture • Relationships between humans and plants • Boundaries and distinctions between plants and animals • Plants and the environmental crisis

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The OED defines “modern” as “being in existence at this time; current, present,” but also as something that is “opposed to the remote past.” Given that the concepts of “past,” “present” and “future” are not fixed, but, to paraphrase Einstein, illusory, the meaning of “modern” itself is hard to pin down. 

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While this year’s theme is focused on the speculative West and the re-inscription of territory, we also welcome proposals for individual papers, organized panels, workshops, posters, performances and other forms of academic engagement on all themes relative to the literary culture of the American West.

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Throughout history, terrestrial landscapes have captivated human curiosity, serving as a significant muse for creative practitioners. Whether it be the enigmatic allure of towering mountains, the mystical charm of dense forests, or the vast expanse of oceans, the natural environment has served as a symbolic platform for portraying human existence, emotive expression, and contemplation of the human condition.

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In this roundtable session, we invite presenters to share their work in French or in English pertaining to science fiction, speculative fiction and fantasy in texts, film, or comics originally published in the French language. These narrative genres are often ways to comment on social change by placing characters in other contexts through world-building or imagined interactions between humans and non-human entities.

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Abstract Deadline: Tuesday, April 30, 2024

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"Teaching Against the Anthropocene" will explore how we translate environmental media into our teaching practices and how we can encourage our students to reflect critically about environmental concepts like the Anthropocene. 

Seeing the Unseen, Unseeing the Seen

“Seen and Unseen,” the theme of SAMLA 96, which will meet from 15 through 17 November in Jacksonville, Florida, focuses on the tasks of discovering, uncovering, and recovering material that may have escaped earlier notice. The study of adaptation sharpens this duality further. Cinematic and theatrical adaptations famously present visuals that audiences for literary texts have previously had to visualize for themselves. Adaptations that censor the texts they adapt seek to replace old ways of seeing with new by concealing matters they think better unseen. Reparative adaptations seek to heal cultural traumas by shining new light on old assumptions about power and status.

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism   A Transdisciplinary Conference

July 11: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online) July 12: Fully online

Conference Webpage:   https://labrc.co.uk/2024/03/16/ecopoetics-2024/

The London Arts-Based Research Centre is delighted to announce the upcoming  Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism  hybrid conference in London, taking place at Pembroke Lodge in the iconic Richmond Park on July 11, 2024 (as well as fully online on July 12).

ROUTLEDGE BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus

BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition) 

Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas

Deadline Extended 22 April: In Search of Lost Futures: Visual Media Narratives of Economic Migration in the Mediterranean

‘In Search of Lost Futures: Visual Media Narratives of Economic Migration in the Mediterranean’ 

19-20 September 2024 

The University of Warwick  

Keynote Speakers 

Dr. Kay Dickinson (University of Glasgow) 

Dr. Barbara Spadaro (University of Liverpool) 

Fantastical Souths

The Society for the Study of Southern Literature invites papers on the Fantastical Ecologies of the South for a panel at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s annual conference from November 15-17, 2024 in Jacksonville, FL. 

Environmental Health Sciences Center

Call for papers.

Call for Papers to the Birth Defects Research Journal: Addressing Health Disparities through Environmental Justice, and Community Engagement

Environmental Justice (EJ) and Community Engagement promote solutions to mitigate risks to toxic environmental chemicals and psychosocial stressors during pregnancy and early childhood. Such risks are often due to socioeconomic disadvantages, founded in structural racism, leading to health disparities. Low birthweights, preterm births, developmental delays, and maternal morbidity are among the adverse outcomes from unequal health care. This special issue will focus on the need for research  and policy  to address environmental justice support and community-based partnerships to mitigate health disparities. Community engagement is a collaborative process that recognizes the expertise and authority of those impacted by adverse environmental exposures. It supports health-protective policy and is responsive to community-defined research priorities to reverse the history of systemic exclusion. Earning the trust of a community through equitable partnership enables environmental justice organizations and researchers to take on robust data collection efforts that respond to immediate needs in support of healthy pregnancies, births, and child development. Topics associated with these issues could include:

Introduce the concept of health disparities, and environmental justice.

Introduce the concept of community engagement (e.g., Community Based Participatory Research Model)

Factors in health disparities modeled through machine learning

Community identification of adverse environmental exposures/stressors related to maternal/infant mortality, pregnancy risk factors (including nutrition) and mental health

Health disparities after natural disasters

Translational research/communicating findings to communities at risk/translation into policies

Deadline for submissions: Nov 30, 2023

Guest Editors:

Dr. Marilyn Silva, University of California, Davis, USA, Email: [email protected] Madeline Vera-Colon, University of California, Irvine, USA, Email: [email protected]

Each manuscript should be written according to the Instructions to Authors (Birth Defects Research (wiley.com)) for the Birth Defects Research Journal (Society for Birth Defects Research and Prevention) and should be submitted electronically via our online submission system (Birth Defects Research (wiley.com)). Please remember to indicate that your manuscript is intended for this special issue (Addressing Health Disparities through Environmental Justice, and Community Engagement) during the submission process. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed according to the policies of the journal.

On Sustainability Research Network

2025 themes and special focus, participate as a presenter, participate as an audience member, publication opportunities, 2025 important dates, submit your proposal, twenty-first international conference on environmental, cultural, economic & social sustainability.

• Sustainable Development for a Dynamic Planet: Lessons, Priorities, and Solutions
• 23-25 January 2025
• Florida International University, Miami, USA + Online

On Sustainability Research Network is brought together by a common concern for sustainability from a holistic perspective, where environmental, cultural, economic, and social interests intersect. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

The Twenty-first International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability features research addressing the following annual themes.

• 2025 Special Focus—Sustainable Development for a Dynamic Planet: Lessons, Priorities, and Solutions
• Theme 1: Ecological Realities
• Theme 2: Participatory Process
• Theme 3: Economic, Social and Cultural Context
• Theme 4: Education, Assessment and Policy

For over 15 years, we've offered a place to create an intellectual frame of reference and to support an interdisciplinary conversation presenting innovative theories and practices of sustainability. We welcome returning and new members to add their voices to the conversation.

In-Person: In-Person presentations will be delivered onsite. We offer innovative formats for a range of presentation styles.

Online Only : online presentations will be delivered and viewed online as asynchronous digital media. Online Only presenters also have discussion boards to structure conversations and access to other online activities.

Conference as Archive: we'll capture and add as much content as possible on the conference microsite. While it's a requirement for online-only presenters, we strongly encourage in-person presenters to pre-record and upload their presentations to the conference microsite. The conference microsite becomes an archive to which delegates and Research Network members can return anytime.

With this step-by-step guide , we walk you through the new phases pre/during/post-conference to ensure you have a productive conference.

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Online Only : gain access to live and recorded presentations, welcome addresses, plenaries, and curated thematic content -- from any place and in your own time.

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All accepted proposals are eligible to be submitted to the On Sustainability Journal Collection . And authors, reviewers, and Research Network members gain subscriber access to the collection.

We are working to change how knowledge is produced, validated, and shared within member-based Research Networks.

The On Sustainability Journal Collection offers pathways to transform your presentation into formal research objects. We also offer several affordable Open Access pathways to allow maximum flexibility to support principles of open research and funder mandates.

We welcome the submission of proposals at any time of the year. The dates below serve as a guideline for proposal submission based on our corresponding registration deadlines. All proposals will be reviewed within two to four weeks of submission.

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We also offer two language pathways to present your research or practice -- English or Spanish.

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• Sharing Practices and Sustainable Urban Fabrics
• 10-11 April 2025
• Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW Berlin) - Campus Wilhelminenhof, Berlin, Germany + Online

Founded in 2010, the Constructed Environment Research Network is brought together by a common shared interest in human configurations of the environment and the interactions among the constructed, social and natural environments. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions .

The Fifthteenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment calls for research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:

• 2025 Special Focus— Sharing Practices and Sustainable Urban Fabrics
• Theme 1: The Design of Space and Place
• Theme 2: Constructing the Environment
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For over 10 years, we've offered a place for interdisciplinary studies on human configurations of the environment and the interactions between the constructed, social, and natural environments. We welcome returning and new members to add their voices to the conversation.

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Conference as Archive: we'll capture and add as much content as possible on the conference microsite. While it's a requirement for online-only presenters, we strongly encourage in-person presenters to pre-record and upload their presentations to the conference microsite. The conference microsite becomes an archive to which delegates and Research Network members can return anytime.

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Conference as Archive: we'll capture and add as much content as possible on the conference microsite. And you can help here too. If you do not see digital media on a presenter page, you can request it from the presenter. You can also add comments to discussion boards of all content. The conference microsite becomes an archive to which delegates and Research Network members can return anytime.

All accepted proposals are eligible to be submitted to The International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design . And authors, reviewers, and Research Network members gain subscriber access to the journal.

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All Presenters (In-Person and Online Only) are asked to upload Digital Media (a video of the presentation as embed code, MP4, PowerPoint, or PDF) to their Presentation pages. This content will be delivered and viewed online as asynchronous digital media. We require presenters to add their digital media to their Presenter Page at least one week before the conference start date, as our Program Development Team will review all media.

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Public Finance and Management

• Symposium Issue – Application of Blockchain Technology in PFM – deadline for abstracts April 30, 2024
• Symposium Issue—Budgeting Mechanisms and Behaviors  – deadline for manuscripts July 1, 2024 

Journal of Interactive Marketing

• Intelligent Automation and AI  – d eadline Aug 31, 2024
• Brands and Branding in the Metaverse  – deadline May 31, 2024

Journal of Tropical Futures: Sustainable Business, Governance & Development

• General call for papers
• Special issue call for papers - deadline May 6, 2024

Journal of Macromarketing

• Embracing Healthy Ageing in Marketing  – d eadline Aug 31, 2024

Social Marketing Quarterly

• Social Marketing’s Role in Racial Equity  – ongoing

Journal of Marketing

• Expanding the Boundaries: Marketing as a Multidisciplinary Knowledge Creation Engine  – ongoing

Journal of Public Policy & Marketing

• Generative AI: Promises and Perils  – deadline March 15, 2024

Progress in Transplantation

• Amplifying the Patient Voice in Research and Healthcare  – Deadline August 1st

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

• Climate Change & Health  – Deadline March 1, 2024
• Space Medicine & Health Systems  – Deadline June 1, 2024

The American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery

• General Call for Papers  – ongoing
• International Special Issue Series  – ongoing

Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Journal of Dance Medicine & Science

Journal of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis

Journal of VitreoRetinal Diseases

Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Emerging Media

• AI from a Human and Responsible Perspective  – Deadline April 30, 2024
• Decolonising Media Futures  – Deadline September 15, 2024

Journal of Chinese Writing Systems

• Naxi Manuscripts  – deadline 10-Jan-2024 for abstract, 30-Jun-2024 for submission

Journal of Transformative Education

• Call for Proposals: Exploring Transformative Learning Theory in Asian Contexts  – D eadline June 30, 2024

Journal of Advanced Academics

• Call for Proposals  – Deadline July 31, 2024
• General Call for Papers  – Deadline December 31, 2024

ECNU Review of Education

• Understanding What Mathematics Teachers Notice in Instruction: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue Between East and West  – deadline 15-Nov-2023 for abstract, 31-Mar-2024 for submission

Asian Journal for Mathematics Education

Gifted Child Today

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Journal of Interpretation Research

Creative Nursing

• Activism, Advocacy, and Allyship  – deadline TBD
• Social Media and Artificial Intelligence  – deadline TBD
• Social Violence  – deadline TBD
• Transforming Power Over to Power With  – deadline TBD

Evaluation & the Health Professions

Hispanic Health Care International

Journal of Human Lactation

• State of the Science  – deadline May 1, 2024

NASN School Nurse

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• Restoring Science and Reconstructing the Regulatory State  – ongoing
• Racial Justice and Workplace and Environmental Health Equity  – ongoing

European Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Brain Science Advances

• The Application of Big Data Models in Brain Science   – deadline July 31, 2024

Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

• Commemorating the 100th year anniversary of EEG –  articles will be accepted on a rolling basis until early 2029

Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology

• General Call for Papers   – ongoing

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Chinese Journal of Transnational Law

• Private International Law and Sustainable Development in Asia  – deadline 20-Feb-2024 for abstract, 1-Oct-2024 for submission

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

• Unpacking Economic Inequality: A Psychological Perspective  – Proposal deadline: Sep 9, 2024; Manuscript deadline: Jan 10, 2025

Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion

• Special Issue: Harm Reduction Strategies to Address Substance Misuse and the Associated Challenges  – deadline July 31, 2024

Emerging Adulthood

• General Call for Papers  – deadline June 1, 2024

Perceptual and Motor Skills 

• Special Issue: The Role of Psycho-Affective Factors in Second/Foreign Language Learning  – deadline September 15, 2024

Illness, Crisis & Loss 

• Special Issue: Public Dying and Public Grieving  – deadline Feb 10, 2024

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Health Promotion Practice

International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services

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Medical Decision Making

• Interface between Human Users and Machine Learning Models in Medical Decision Making  – ongoing

American Behavioral Scientist

• A Sampling of Pre-Internet Networked Operations  – deadline November 1, 2024

World Futures Review

• Environmental Futures – advancing images of mutual human-nature relationships  – deadline feb 29, 2024: Abstract submission (300-500 words)

Chinese Journal of Sociology

• Toward a Hopeful Sociology of Digital China  – Deadline May 31, 2024
• China and the Environment   – Deadline August 31, 2024

Planet versus Plastics

Plastic waste has infiltrated every corner of our planet, from oceans and waterways to the food chain and even our bodies. Only 9% of plastic is recycled due to factors including poor infrastructure, technical challenges, lack of incentives, and low market demand.   

“We need legislation that disincentivizes big oil from producing plastic in the first place, coupled with enforced single use plastic taxes and fines,” says Desiree LaBeaud , professor of pediatric infectious diseases and senior fellow at   Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment . “We also need truly compostable alternatives that maintain the convenient lifestyle that plastic allows us now."

Plastic presents a problem like no other. Stanford scholars are approaching it from many angles: exploring the connection between plastic and disease, rethinking how plastic could be reused, and uncovering new ways of breaking down waste. In honor of Earth Day and this year’s theme – Planet vs. Plastics – we’ve highlighted stories about promising solutions to the plastics challenge. 

Environmental changes are altering the risk for mosquito-borne diseases

Our changing climate is dramatically altering the landscape for mosquito-borne diseases, but other changes to the physical environment - like the proliferation of plastic trash - also make an impact, as mosquitos can breed in the plastic waste we discard. 

Since this study published, HERI-Kenya , a nonprofit started by Stanford infectious disease physician Desiree LaBeaud , has launched HERI Hub , a brick and mortar education hub that educates, empowers and inspires community members to improve the local environment to promote health.

Using plastic waste to build roads, buildings, and more

Stanford engineers  Michael Lepech  and  Zhiye Li  have a unique vision of the future: buildings and roads made from plastic waste. In this story, they discuss obstacles, opportunities, and other aspects of transforming or upcycling plastic waste into valuable materials. 

Since this white paper was published, students in Lepech's  life cycle assessment course  have explored the environmental and economic impacts of waste management, emissions, and energy efficiency of building materials for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts. In addition to recycled plastic, they proposed a photovoltaic system and conducted comparison studies to maximize the system’s life cycle. This work is being translated into an upcoming publication.

Stanford researchers show that mealworms can safely consume toxic additive-containing plastic

Mealworms are not only able to eat various forms of plastic, as previous research has shown, they can also consume potentially toxic plastic additives in polystyrene with no ill effects. The worms can then be used as a safe, protein-rich feed supplement.

Since this study published, it has inspired students across the world to learn about and experiment with mealworms and plastic waste. Stanford researchers involved with this and related studies have been inundated with requests for more information and guidance from people inspired by the potential solution.

Grants tackle the plastics problem

Stanford Woods Institute has awarded more than $23 million in funding to research projects that seek to identify solutions to pressing environment and sustainability challenges, including new approaches to plastic waste management. 

Converting polyethylene into palm oil

This project is developing a new technology to convert polyethylene — by far the most discarded plastic — into palm oil. The approach could add value to the plastic waste management chain while sourcing palm oil through a less destructive route.

Improving plastic waste management

This project aims to radically change the way plastic waste is processed via a new biotechnology paradigm: engineering highly active enzymes and microbes capable of breaking down polyesters in a decentralized network of “living” waste receptacles. 

More stories from Stanford

Eight simple but meaningful things you can do for the environment.

A new, artistic perspective on plastic waste

Whales eat colossal amounts of microplastics

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A greener future begins with small steps

Mosquito diseases on the move

Last straw: The path to reducing plastic pollution

Plastic ingestion by fish a growing problem

Stanford infectious disease expert Desiree LaBeaud talks trash, literally, on Stanford Engineering's The Future of Everything podcast. 

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Call for Papers - Western Sahara Research Group: Third Annual Conference

The Western Sahara Research Group's Third Annual Conference will be organised via several thematic panels with a view to interrogating Western Sahara’s international status and its significance from the vantage points of public international law and the law and policy of the European Union.

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The conference is sponsored by the Centre for European and International Legal Affairs and will be held on 11 September 2024 at Queen Mary University of London.

The Conference is open to senior and junior scholars, as well as practitioners and members of International Organisations (and NGOs) working in the areas of public international law and/or European Union law. The Organisers invite such persons wishing to participate in the 2024 Conference to submit a paper abstract or summary (maximum 500 words) addressing for one or more of the following themes:

Thematic Panel 1: Western Sahara, Self-determination, and Human Rights

This panel seeks to analyse the challenges associated with the current military and political situation in Western Sahara by recourse to the rules and principles of the applicable international law. Topics may include Self-determination; Recognition; Territoriality; Use of Force; International Humanitarian Law; and International Human Rights Law.

Thematic Panel 2: Western Sahara and the European Union

This panel focuses on the European Union’s external actions and its law and policy approaches to regional trade (and the extraction of natural resources) to the extent that they directly affect the territory of Western Sahara. This theme involves detailed consideration of the legal questions generated by the conduct of the EU’s political institutions in this setting and the determinations made by the EU courts in the ensuing litigation instituted by the Polisario (and others). Topics may include interactions between EU law and international law; litigation before the EU courts; EU Trade Policy; EU External Action; and Member-States’ diplomatic practices.

Thematic Panel 3: Western Sahara and International Economic Law

This panel examines the legal issues arising from Western Sahara’s international status by way of the exploitation of the region’s natural resources in the light of the normative evolution of International Economic Law (encompassing the principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources). This theme may prompt an assessment of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and/or the 2030 Agenda, along with the established codes and guidelines governing Business and Human Rights as far as they relate to economic operators working in Western Sahara. Topics may include International Trade Law; International Investment Law; the exploitation of terrestrial and maritime natural resources; International Environmental Law; and Business & Human Rights.

Thematic Panel 4: Western Sahara in International Politics

This panel envisages engagement with the legal, political, and diplomatic causes (and effects) of the Western Sahara Question at national, regional, and international levels. This theme may provoke an appraisal of national responses to this ongoing dispute as well as the conduct, laws, and policies of the regional/global actors (such as the African Union or the United Nations). This theme could accommodate doctrinal and/or theoretical insights from other relevant disciplines including International Relations.

How to submit

Conference paper abstracts must be sent via email to Stephen Allen: [email protected] accompanied by a working title and four key words by 19 July 2024 . The Organisers will review submitted paper abstracts as part of the selection process and applicants will be contacted shortly thereafter.

The Research Group is currently editing a collection of essays entitled Western Sahara and International Law: Fifty Years after the ICJ Advisory Opinion (Brill, 2025). The book’s publication is planned to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the ICJ’s Western Sahara Advisory Opinion . 

Contributors to the 2024 Conference – along with participants from the Group’s earlier annual conferences – are invited to submit full papers for consideration in connection with this publishing project. Further details can be obtained from the Organisers via the above email address.

The Organisers: Stephen Allen (Queen Mary); Andrea Mensi (University of Bologna); Francisco Pereira Coutinho (NOVA School of Law); and João Francisco Diogo (NOVA School of Law).

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The Data, Analysis, and Modeling Tools Lab Call supports the government-wide approach to the climate crisis by illuminating innovation that can lead to the deployment of clean energy technologies critical for climate protection.

Supported data collection and analyses will focus on current clean energy market and technology landscapes, as well as historical impacts of investments. This will enable AMMTO and its stakeholders to better understand the current needs for technologies associated with the topic areas below and better direct research, development and deployment (RD&D) funds to maximize beneficial impacts. 

The development of models that formalize and automate the data analyses will establish frameworks that AMMTO and its stakeholders will be able to leverage in the future as additional technologies related to the topics of this lab call are considered for investment. 

Finally, this lab call will develop systems of tools that inform actions to accelerate commercialization, increase circularity, and/or increase resilience in the supply chains that support clean energy. 

Topic 1: Analysis Tools for Manufacturing for Next-Generation Batteries

This topic supports the development of analysis tools to improve estimates of battery manufacturing costs and commercialization time scales for battery manufacturing start-ups. 

• Phase 1: The lab will compile comprehensive baseline data and perform a meta-analysis.
• Phase 2: The lab will develop an analysis tool to provide estimations of scale up costs and/or commercial time scales. 

Topic 2: Framework for Battery Manufacturing Testbeds

This topic supports translational research—collaborative RD&D that translates battery manufacturing technologies at very low Technology/Manufacturing Readiness Level (TRL/MRL) to much higher levels of readiness. 

• Phase 1: The lab will conduct a landscape analysis of test bed facilities. 
• Phase 2: The lab will develop the framework for a translational battery manufacturing test bed facility. 

Topic 3: Codes for High Performance Computing for Manufacturing

This topic seeks proposals for projects that will improve national lab-developed software with the goal of increasing the ability to leverage high performance computing (HPC) resources to help U.S. manufacturers solve critical problems through advanced modeling and simulation. Such projects should be aimed at:

• Expanding or improving modeling and simulation codes and libraries in ways that make them more useful to solving materials & manufacturing challenges.
• Accelerating innovation useful to the industrial sector, primarily challenges related to clean energy technology manufacturing, domestic supply chain resiliency, decarbonization, critical material sourcing and recovery, and product and material circularity processes.

Additional consideration will be given to relevance to the  HPC for Energy Innovation program .  This topic is jointly funded by AMMTO and the Office of Science’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR).

Topic 4: Analysis for Critical Materials Processes and Technologies Benchmarks

This topic seeks a project, or pair or projects, to determine benchmark metrics for cost, environmental performance, and technical performance of materials, processes, and/or technologies. This set of benchmark metrics is meant to represent the state-of-the-art (SOTA) of two sectors (industry and research) to enable AMMTO to measure progress and success of its critical materials RD&D portfolio and inform future research direction.

Topic 5: Impact Analysis of Materials and Manufacturing Innovation on Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice (EJ) Analysis proposals are sought for data identification, data collection, decision-making methodology development, and prototype tool development to facilitate EJ harm prevention or reduction in communities. The EJ analysis pilot will be focused on the following AMMTO technical areas: 

• Critical Minerals and Materials (CMM)
• Circular Economy Technologies and Systems (circularity).

The mining, separation, and production of CMM and the recycling of electronic waste and plastics are all examples of AMMTO-related processes that can cause harmful EJ impacts. This pilot seeks to find patterns of causation and avoidance of harm in data on past and potential future harms as well as in AMMTO sponsored and related innovation. The pilot also seeks proposals for a prototype tool that could illuminate paths for innovations that avoid EJ harm and might be used by industrial and community stakeholder decision-makers.

Topic 6: Tools for Data Curation of Open Life Cycle Assessment Databases

The impacts of circular economy approaches are accounted for by assessing contributions over the full lifecycle of the product, including multiple uses, in analyses called lifecycle assessments (LCA). As environmental impacts become more of a factor in purchasing and procurement decisions, LCAs are increasingly being used to tout the benefits of products with lower embodied carbon and other benefits. There are challenges facing the expanded use of LCAs, including a lack of publicly available up-to-date background data. This topic aims to address data gaps through the development of tools and methodologies that will keep data current, particularly those data we anticipate will change significantly over the coming years. 

Topic 7: Analysis of Material Flows for the Circular Economy

Material circularity is a paradigm shift that transforms the use pattern of materials from sending to a landfill after single use to circulating in the economy through multiple uses. Current material flows set the baseline and point towards where the greatest opportunities for circularity are. AMMTO seeks proposals that identify materials for which there is high potential for materials circularity and for which a material flow assessment would fill a gap. The selected proposal will complete a material flow assessment at the agreed upon level of detail.

Topic 8: Framework for MAterial Reuse Clearing House (MARCH) for Recycled Material Feedstocks

AMMTO seeks to establish a material reuse clearing house to provide the information infrastructure and ecosystem needed to overcome the information deficits that hamper adoption of recycled feedstocks. It is often difficult for manufacturers to assess the relative environmental impacts of virgin and recycled feedstocks, as well as the quality and quantity of recycled feedstock available. This project will:

• Provide an assessment of the need for such a clearing house
• Insight into the needs of the intended user base
• Propose a framework for the clearing house; and 
• Develop a plan for how to build, pilot, and launch the clearing house including a recommendation for what material(s) should be the initial focus.

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