[EQ] Du Bois Review: Special Call for Papers on Race and Health

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR SPECIAL ISSUE ON RACE AND HEALTH

Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race

Two-page proposals for papers are due January 25, 2010

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”

“…With those words, W.E. Du Bois discussed the racial progress in the United States and foreshadowed the critical part race would continue to play in understanding inequality, mobility, and quality of life in American society.

This quote serves as a springboard for this special call of the Du Bois Review (DBR) soliciting abstracts for papers that describe novel and exciting research directions for studying how race and ethnicity affect health in the twenty-first century.  That is, what are the next big ideas that can potentially unpack how and why race is so strongly associated with physical and mental health?

What are the most promising new directions for the study of racial inequality and health?  What are the key unanswered questions that researchers and policy makers should invest in? 

What is needed to make more progress in effectively addressing racial inequalities in health?  The DBR is truly multidisciplinary, spanning economics, political science, psychology, sociology, history, public health, and more.  I

 

Cambridge University Press website and examine previous issues: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=DBR

Guest editors for this special issue are David R. Williams (Harvard University) and David T. Takeuchi (University of Washington).

Submission Process

Two-page proposals for papers are due January 25, 2010.  Two types of papers will be accepted for this special call: (a) state of the discipline presents lead essays that synthetically critique broad areas of research regarding race and health ; and (b) state of the art, is dedicated to observations and analyses of empirical research.  Proposals should state a tentative title, the type of paper to be written, listing of authors, contact information, and a synopsis of the paper idea.  We will select papers that hold the most promise for advancing the field and that best combine, as a collection of papers, into a synergistic whole appropriate for this special call. 
We expect to make our final selection of proposals by February 15, 2010.  Final papers will be due July 31, 2010 with publication of the special issue expected for early 2011.

DBR is a blind peer-reviewed journal and publishes only original, previously unpublished whether hard copy or electronic work.
Submitted manuscripts may not be under review for publication elsewhere while under consideration at DBR.
Please send an electronic version of proposals for papers to both
David Williams (DWILLIAM@hsph.harvard.edu ) and David Takeuchi (dt5@uw.edu ).

About DBR

DBR is an innovative journal that presents and analyzes the best cutting-edge research on race from the social sciences. It provides a forum for discussion and increased understanding of race and society from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, law, communications, public policy, psychology, linguistics, and history.

 

The editors of this peer-reviewed journal are Professor Lawrence D. Bobo (Harvard University) and Professor Michael C. Dawson (University of Chicago). 
Published by Cambridge University Press, and sponsored by the W. E.
B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, each issue of the DBR contains between 200 and 225 pages.

For further information about DBR please go to:
http://www.journals.cambridge.org/jid_DBR

From: David Williams
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009

 

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[EQ] COP15 - Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15)

 

Bella Center in Copenhagen from the 7th to the 18th of December, 2009

 

Protect the climate, protect our health

 

Website: http://en.cop15.dk/

 

“….Climate change endangers human health. COP15 represents the most important opportunity in decades to achieve international agreement on how to cut emissions of greenhouse gases deeply enough to reduce the likelihood of dangerous climate change. WHO wants an agreement that is strong and equitable and wants the health references in the agreement to be retained and strengthened.

WHO's key messages

·         Besides environmental and economic damage, the ultimate impact of climate change represents a toll on our most precious resource - human lives and health.

·         Significant co-benefits for population health and well-being can result from mitigation policies in sectors such as energy, transport and agriculture.

·         The health sector will bear most of the burden of protecting and treating people that are negatively impacted by climate change, and will need support to play its critical role in relation to adaptation and resilience….”

ODI’s:

The world’s attention is turning to Copenhagen and the 15^th meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.  World Leaders will attempt to deliver a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol and expectations are high.  The outcome of the meeting will have a huge impact on the world’s poor and their struggle to secure a decent and sustainable future.

 

Key resources prepared for this event

§                      Beyond grants: climate finance in developing countries
      Article - ODI Opinions 141, December 2009

§                      Climate negotiations and development: how can low-income countries gain from a Climate Negotiation Framework Agreement?
      ODI Working Papers 312, November 2009

 

 

December 2009

 

The Little Finance Book also aims to demystify some of the key concepts around financial mechanisms that currently hinder negotiations.

Charlie Parker, Jessica Brown, Jonathan Pickering, Emily Roynestad, Niki Mardas, Andrew W. Mitchell

PDF [91p.] at: http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/download/4619.pdf

 

Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy

Report:

 

Action and ambition for a global deal in Copenhagen

Nicholas Stern - 6th December 2009

Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy

Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment In collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Policy

Available online PDF [13p.] at: http://en.cop15.dk/files/pdf/ActionAndAmbitionForGlobalDealInCopenhagen.pdf

“….This paper sets out an assessment of the latest national positions regarding emission reduction targets and actions going into the forthcoming negotiations in Copenhagen. These targets and intentions are quantified and translated into global emissions to give an understanding of how close we are to a possible agreement consistent with keeping temperature increase below 2°C.

 

Recent work on the latest science and economics of 2°C shows that global emissions should be around 44Gt2 carbon dioxide equivalents in 2020 to be

consistent with a 50-50 chance of keeping temperature increase below 2°C.

 

This is in line with the earlier work that underpins the IPCC conclusions. Existing proposals from developed and developing countries, if delivered, constitute a big step towards a path consistent with the 2°C goal. Taking countries’ highest intentions would take the world to around 46Gt in 2020 a gap of 2Gt, which may be around 80% of the way from business as usual, depending on the interpretation of business as usual.

 

However, this analysis relies on the following key assumptions:

• Countries moving to or standing by their high intentions which may require the satisfaction of stipulated conditions concerning action from others

• Providing adequate finance and other support for high intentions in developing countries such as
  Indonesia and Brazil; this should not count offset finance, as this risks double counting, or with offset finance but matched with more stringent targets.

• That surplus emissions allowances from previous commitment periods do not weaken mitigation effort

• A system of rules for how to account for the emissions released and absorbed in the
  LULUCF sector (Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry) to ensure the environmental integrity of emission targets

 

But with the right kind of collaborative spirit it is clearly possible for countries to get to together so that the necessary strong commitments can be made….”

 

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