Saleem H Ali
Biographic Data
| ID | 77018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saleem H Ali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saleem H |
| FAMILY NAME | Ali |
| SIGNATURE | ALI S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0961-4327 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 75 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 309 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The dynamic complexity of critical mineral supply chains reveals the paradox of energy transition
The need for a systems approach to better understand the linkages between natural resources and human (im)mobility
To date, much of the climate change literature express alarmist and groundless narratives. This includes simple linkages between natural resource loss, forced migration and violent conflict mediated through climate change, or attribution of natural resource decline to climate change, that rather relates to mismanagement, governance, and politics. There is also a mobility-bias where natural resource impacts upon immobile or ‘trapped’ people often …
Mapping Arctic Futures
This paper investigates the use of participatory mapping as a tool to help communities navigate resource rushes by creating space for dialogue to identify alternative development trajectories and multiple land-use activities which could supplement, replace, or co-exist in post-industrial extractive spaces. The study focuses on renewed interest in mining development and alternative economies surrounding the historic Ivittuut cryolite mine nestled …
Sustainability
Sustainability: A Very Short Introduction explores the concept of sustainability and its development. The growing concern about global environmental change and human impacts on the planet has led to the emergence of a broad field of study on the sustainability of human societies. The VSI then highlights the key concepts crucial to sustainability, such as the material and energy flows in consumption and production and the technological interventio…
The Role of Land and Natural Resources in Negotiating Peace Agreements
Drawing on the growing genre of literature on “environmental peacebuilding,” this article develops a qualitative model of how land and natural resources (including minerals, water, forests, and agricultural products) contribute to the framing of conflicts and how they might contribute to their resolution. We considered twelve cases of peace processes in which land and resources played a role and developed a causal link typology of the nexus betwe…
The Convergence of Populism, Conspiracy Theories, and Social Media in the Construction of Threats to Democracy
In our current era, dominated as it is by digitalization in its varied forms, the dynamic interplay of populism, conspiracy theory, and social media has significant consequences for the democratic functioning of society. In this paper I identify and discuss some of these consequences, with an analytic emphasis on how this dynamic may be contributing to the emergence of a contemporary crisis in democracy in both Canada and the United States. In my…
Mineral diplomacy in Greenland
Growing extractive and geopolitical interest in Greenland is leading to a confluence of threats and opportunities for communities in determining their future economic development pathways. This paper investigates the diplomatic history of the Ivittuut cryolite mine in Southwest Greenland as part of a larger participatory mapping project focused on interviewing stakeholders in the Arsuk fjord on future development pathways in the Ivittuut region. …
Carbon emissions in metal manufacturing productivity
The aluminium industry generates over a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) annually, contributing to global emissions significantly. To become a part of the sustainable economy, this carbon-intensive industry needs improved productivity to reduce its carbon footprint. Given the ubiquity of aluminium usage in a wide array of consumer and industrial products and its high production energy requirements, assessing the carbon component of produc…
Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery
This paper works toward building a theoretical framework to understand the role that extended urbanisation and peripherality played in the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on conceptualising and analyzing the nature of the social impacts and outbreak responses that unfolded in urban peripheries. In particular, we emphasise how scholarship on socio-spatial peripheralisation—as part of broader approaches devoted to analyzing the nature of e…
Adaptive Governance to Manage Human Mobility and Natural Resource Stress
Connections between resources and migration operate as a complex adaptive system rather than being premised in linear, causal mechanisms. The systems thinking advocated within this Element increases the inclusion of socio-psychological, financial, demographic, environmental and political dimensions that mediate resource-(im)mobility pathways. The Earth Systems Governance paradigm provides a way to manage global migration flows more effectively, a…
Diseases, Borderless
As the COVID‐19 pandemic vividly demonstrates, globalization predicated on the enhanced movement of people, capital, information, and goods across the world has considerably raised the potential for infectious disease epidemics and the magnitude of their impacts. As various new types of social and geographical interconnectivities emerge, changes in the interconnections between humans, animals, and the environment will have profound repercussions …
Transnational agricultural land acquisitions threaten biodiversity in the Global South
Agricultural large-scale land acquisitions have been linked with enhanced deforestation and land use change. Yet the extent to which transnational agricultural large-scale land acquisitions (TALSLAs) contribute to—or merely correlate with—deforestation, and the expected biodiversity impacts of the intended land use changes across ecosystems, remains unclear. We examine 178 georeferenced TALSLA locations in 40 countries to address this gap. While …
Postcolonial riskscapes
Tradition or Modernization? The Dilemma of Chinese Indigenous Communities
In the indigenous communities in China’s Guizhou Province, people are struggling to balance tradition with modernisation. As fires have long plagued these villages, post-disaster reconstruction has intensified the tradition/modernity tension and left people with a complex dilemma: should traditional wooden houses be restored, or should one, instead, pursue a safer and modern dwelling in concrete houses? Through the lens of housing reconstruction,…
Ebola, informal settlements, and the role of place in infectious disease vulnerability
Studies of vulnerability often focus on the differential susceptibility of marginalised groups to the effects of disaster. This paper considers how vulnerability is also associated with the characteristics of place, especially the social setting of the informal settlement. In this light, it assesses specifically how cultural, historical, and political economic forces resulted in increased vulnerability to Ebola virus disease (EVD) within informal…
Mobilizing the social infrastructure of informal settlements in infectious disease response – The case of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa
Hydropolitics in the Black Sea
Many major rivers discharge into the Black Sea and bring major nutrient pollution, leading to rapid plant growth and eutrophication impacts in the ecosystem. Yet, the Black Sea cannot replace the lost oxygen during this process due to its natural conditions, such as low salinity, low density, very limited connection to larger seas and oceans, and low vertical and horizontal circulation. This resulted in about 90% of the sea to have anaerobic cond…
Deep‐sea nodules versus land ores
To meet UN Sustainable Development goals, a clean‐energy transition with minimal ecological impact from its raw‐material supply chain is essential. Polymetallic nodules lying unattached on the abyssal seafloor of the Pacific Ocean's Clarion Clipperton Zone contain four critical metals (nickel, cobalt, manganese, copper) in large quantities, and the International Seabed Authority may soon enact regulations to allow their commercial exploitation. T…
Natural resources, human mobility and sustainability
Global review of human waste-picking and its contribution to poverty alleviation and a circular economy
Across the globe, the livelihood of millions of people relies on the recovery and sale of valuable materials previously discarded as waste. In developed countries, this is mainly incorporated into the official recycling and resources recovery sector, while in developing countries the informal waste picking activities often make a major contribution. Waste picking provides important opportunities to people who have few or no marketable skills and …
Solar geoengineering
Solar geoengineering is gaining prominence in climate change debates as an issue worth studying; for some it is even a potential future policy option. We argue here against this increasing normalization of solar geoengineering as a speculative part of the climate policy portfolio. We contend, in particular, that solar geoengineering at planetary scale is not governable in a globally inclusive and just manner within the current international polit…
When maximizing profit endangers our humanity
The inequitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines that we see today must be situated within the historical context of colonialism, global capitalism, and the othering of the Global South. The effects of these structural factors have resulted in an exclusive preoccupation with profitmaking through vaccine manufacturing at the expense of humanitarian concern. The deliberate neglect in the vaccination of those in the Global South will enable the vir…
The post-colonialist condition, suspicion, and social resistance during the West African Ebola epidemic
Extending the boundaries of 'urban society
A disease outbreak is an emergent product of social and ecological processes. To more fully understand disease outbreaks and their response, we must therefore consider how these dual processes interact in specific locales within the context of an increasingly urbanized world. As such, in this paper we examine the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak and its response in West Africa by adopting the lenses of two approaches that are usually treated se…
Contextualizing Risk Perception and Trust in the Community-Based Response to Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia
The 2014-15 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreaks in Western Africa became widespread in primarily three countries, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Unlike all previous outbreaks in Central and East Africa, which were confined to rural areas, the virus spread rapidly through West Africa as a result of transmission through high-density urban centres coupled with the effects of public distrust in outbreak response teams and local government officia…
Extended urbanisation and the spatialities of infectious disease
This paper argues that contemporary processes of extended urbanisation, which include suburbanisation, post-suburbanisation and peri-urbanisation, may result in increased vulnerability to infectious disease spread. Through a review of existing literature at the nexus of urbanisation and infectious disease, we consider how this (potential) increased vulnerability to infectious diseases in peri- or suburban areas is in fact dialectically related to…
Global Cities and the Spread of Infectious Disease
The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Toronto and other cities in 2003 showed a heightened sensitivity of places in the global economy to rapid changes brought on by the acceleration of social and ecological relationships. The spread of the SARS virus may be a predictable consequence of these processes. The paper investigates how processes of globalisation have affected the transmission and response to SARS within the contex…
On the relationships between Covid-19 and extended urbanization
This commentary focuses on the relationship between extensive forms of urbanization and emerging infectious disease, using empirical examples from the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, it examines the role of shifting urban-ecological relationships, infrastructures, and governance dynamics in both giving rise to, and mitigating, the impact of infectious disease outbreaks
Solar geoengineering
Solar geoengineering is gaining prominence in climate change debates as an issue worth studying; for some it is even a potential future policy option. We argue here against this increasing normalization of solar geoengineering as a speculative part of the climate policy portfolio. We contend, in particular, that solar geoengineering at planetary scale is not governable in a globally inclusive and just manner within the current international polit…
A contested transition toward a coal-free future
Environmental peacebuilding in South Asia
Stigmatized Ethnicity, Public Health, and Globalization
The prejudicial linking of infection with ethnic minority status has a long-established history, but in some ways this association may have intensified under the contemporary circumstances of the "new public health" and globalization. This study analyzes this conflation of ethnicity and disease victimization by considering the stigmatization process that occurred during the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto. The…
Extending the boundaries of 'urban society
A disease outbreak is an emergent product of social and ecological processes. To more fully understand disease outbreaks and their response, we must therefore consider how these dual processes interact in specific locales within the context of an increasingly urbanized world. As such, in this paper we examine the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak and its response in West Africa by adopting the lenses of two approaches that are usually treated se…
Mapping industrial disaster recovery
World Heritage in danger
Contagious Cities
The outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that unfolded at various locations throughout the world represented the first collective threat to public health that was amplified by the processes and structures of our contemporary globalized society - such as, the compression of time and space and increased linkages between various cities of the world. In this article, the global outbreak of SARS in 2003 is used as an empirical referen…
The avian flu
The post-colonialist condition, suspicion, and social resistance during the West African Ebola epidemic
The New Public Health Hegemony
Energy diplomacy in South Asia
Decentralization, corporate community development and resource governance
Environmental Planning and Cooperative Behavior
Environmental concerns have been framed in the planning profession as manifestations of resource scarcity, and hence a contributing factor in community conflicts. While mismanaged environmental scarcity can certainly lead to conflict, there is also considerable potential to stimulate cooperation on the basis of environmental scarcity itself. In the language of game theory, the latter outcome can be obtained by converting “dilemmas of common compe…
Tradition or Modernization? The Dilemma of Chinese Indigenous Communities
In the indigenous communities in China’s Guizhou Province, people are struggling to balance tradition with modernisation. As fires have long plagued these villages, post-disaster reconstruction has intensified the tradition/modernity tension and left people with a complex dilemma: should traditional wooden houses be restored, or should one, instead, pursue a safer and modern dwelling in concrete houses? Through the lens of housing reconstruction,…
Gemstone supply chains and development in Pakistan
The Hydro-economics of Mining
Joint research between economists and hydrologists increasingly contributes to optimising the economic value gained from water, while safeguarding its social and environmental values. The application of hydro-economic analysis to mining regions, however, is limited. This paper examines why this is the case and how to confront it. The paper focuses on identifying and describing features of large-scale mines and mine regions that are challenging to…
Disaster incubation, cumulative impacts and the urban/ex-urban/rural dynamic
Dealing with Toxicity in the Risk Society
Une perspective de la construction sociale sert de cadre a l'analyse des controverses sur la gestion des risques qui ont été provoquées à la suite d'un incendie majeur dans une usine de recyclage de matières plastiques à Hamilton, en Ontario. En mettant l'accent sur les processus de réclamation au cœur de l'interaction entre les représen‐tants du gouvernement, les acteurs environnementaux, les experts techniques et les résidants, il a été révélé …
Disaster and the Political Economy of Recycling
Journal Article Disaster and the Political Economy of Recycling: Toxic Fire in an Industrial City Get access S. Harris Ali S. Harris Ali York University, Toronto Direct correspondence to: S. Harris Ali, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M3J 1P3. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 49, Issue 2, 1 Ma…
The Search for a Landfill Site in the Risk Society
Cette étude examine comment les inquiétudes concernant les risques de l'environnement ont été traitées dans une recherche d'un site d'enfouissement des déchets qu'on a menée récemment à Guelph, Ontario. L'argument sera que les interactions observées entre expert et profane ainsi que le genre de questions soulevées peuvent être comprises en termes de la thèse de la societéà risque proposée par Ulrick Beck. En particulier, cette étude montrera comm…
Ebola, informal settlements, and the role of place in infectious disease vulnerability
Studies of vulnerability often focus on the differential susceptibility of marginalised groups to the effects of disaster. This paper considers how vulnerability is also associated with the characteristics of place, especially the social setting of the informal settlement. In this light, it assesses specifically how cultural, historical, and political economic forces resulted in increased vulnerability to Ebola virus disease (EVD) within informal…
Trust, Risk and the Public
This paper investigates the role of trust in mediating the expert-lay interactions that took place in the recent Guelph Landfill Search Process (GLSP). On a theoretical level, I shall discuss how the emergent expert-lay trust relations, as well as the types of issues raised in the GLSP, were influenced by the conditions of the risk society outlined by Ulrich Beck. It is concluded that a lack of general trust in technology and technical expertise …
The Search for a Landfill Site in the Risk Society
Cette étude examine comment les inquiétudes concernant les risques de l'environnement ont été traitées dans une recherche d'un site d'enfouissement des déchets qu'on a menée récemment à Guelph, Ontario. L'argument sera que les interactions observées entre expert et profane ainsi que le genre de questions soulevées peuvent être comprises en termes de la thèse de la societéà risque proposée par Ulrick Beck. En particulier, cette étude montrera comm…
Dealing with Toxicity in the Risk Society
Une perspective de la construction sociale sert de cadre a l'analyse des controverses sur la gestion des risques qui ont été provoquées à la suite d'un incendie majeur dans une usine de recyclage de matières plastiques à Hamilton, en Ontario. En mettant l'accent sur les processus de réclamation au cœur de l'interaction entre les représen‐tants du gouvernement, les acteurs environnementaux, les experts techniques et les résidants, il a été révélé …
Disaster and the Political Economy of Recycling
Journal Article Disaster and the Political Economy of Recycling: Toxic Fire in an Industrial City Get access S. Harris Ali S. Harris Ali York University, Toronto Direct correspondence to: S. Harris Ali, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M3J 1P3. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 49, Issue 2, 1 Ma…
Environmental Planning and Cooperative Behavior
Environmental concerns have been framed in the planning profession as manifestations of resource scarcity, and hence a contributing factor in community conflicts. While mismanaged environmental scarcity can certainly lead to conflict, there is also considerable potential to stimulate cooperation on the basis of environmental scarcity itself. In the language of game theory, the latter outcome can be obtained by converting “dilemmas of common compe…
A socio-ecological autopsy of the E. coli O157
Medicine as Culture
The New Public Health Hegemony
Risk and Everyday Life
Mining, the Environment, and Indigenous Development Conflicts
Journal Article Mining, the Environment, and Indigenous Development Conflicts Get access Mining, the Environment, and Indigenous Development Conflicts. By Ali Saleem H.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. xxii + 254 pp. Tables, charts, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00.) A. E. Rogge A. E. Rogge URS Corporation Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 36, Is…
The Social and Political Context of Disease Outbreaks
Dans cette étude, nous avons utilisé un cadre théorique relevant de l'écologie politique afin de construire un modèle critique et systémique pour expliquer comment il est possible de gérer une maladie infectieuse émergente, comme le SRAS, dans notre univers mondialisé. Nous espérons qu'un tel modèle contribuera à la mise en place de politiques de gestion des risques plus réalistes. Nous commençons par établir et analyser les interactions qui, dan…
Global Cities and the Spread of Infectious Disease
The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Toronto and other cities in 2003 showed a heightened sensitivity of places in the global economy to rapid changes brought on by the acceleration of social and ecological relationships. The spread of the SARS virus may be a predictable consequence of these processes. The paper investigates how processes of globalisation have affected the transmission and response to SARS within the contex…
The avian flu
Disaster incubation, cumulative impacts and the urban/ex-urban/rural dynamic
Contagious Cities
The outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that unfolded at various locations throughout the world represented the first collective threat to public health that was amplified by the processes and structures of our contemporary globalized society - such as, the compression of time and space and increased linkages between various cities of the world. In this article, the global outbreak of SARS in 2003 is used as an empirical referen…
Stigmatized Ethnicity, Public Health, and Globalization
The prejudicial linking of infection with ethnic minority status has a long-established history, but in some ways this association may have intensified under the contemporary circumstances of the "new public health" and globalization. This study analyzes this conflation of ethnicity and disease victimization by considering the stigmatization process that occurred during the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto. The…
Climate Change, Vector-borne Disease and Interdisciplinary Research
Over the last two decades, the science of climate change's theoretical impacts on vector-borne disease has generated controversy related to its methodological validity and relevance to disease control policy. Critical social science analysis, drawing on science and technology studies and the sociology of social movements, demonstrates consistency between this controversy and the theory that climate change is serving as a collective action frame f…
Conflict translates environmental and social risk into business costs
Significance In this report we investigate company–community conflict and its role in the regulation of sustainability performance in the extractive industries. We estimate the cost of conflict to companies and identify conflict as an important means through which environmental and social risks are translated into business costs and decision-making. The paper clarifies the relationship between the environmental and social risk experienced—and int…
Managing transboundary wetlands
Diplomacy on Ice
Local Sustainability and Gender Ratio
This study employed rapid evaluation methods to investigate how the leading industries of mining and tourism impact sustainability as manifest through social, economic and environmental dimensions in Yunnan, China. Within the social context, we also consider the differentiated impact on gender ratio-which is a salient feature of sustained development trajectories. Our results indicate that mining areas performed better than tourism areas in econo…
Sustainable livelihoods and indicators for regional development in mining economies
Religious identity and coal development in Pakistan’
Diplomacy on Ice
As the race for resources in distant parts of the planet gathers momentum, most discussion has centered on the potential for conflict, environmental destruction, and upheaval from climate change. This important book shifts the conversation about the Arctic and Antarctic from conflict to cooperation. A multidisciplinary roster of experts provides fresh views of the polar regions, focusing on diplomacy and the potential for cooperative internationa…
Reconciling Islamic Ethics, Fossil Fuel Dependence, and Climate Change in the Middle East
The dominance of fossil fuel economies in the Middle East with large Muslim majority populations has led to a recurring question about the role Islamic ethics might play in galvanizing action on climate change. However, the perceived clash of economic values versus environmental norms in Islam deserves more careful examination. This brief article considers the advent of the “Islamic Declaration on Climate Change” which was promulgated in 2015 and…
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