"Increasingly, over the past decades, the health impact of the extractive industries has generated concern across the globe. This special edition of New Solutions on the extractive industries includes important contributions from different countries and across different continents. It presents a more consistent and much deeper insight into the varied “faces” of the extractive industries and compels us to look with fresh eyes for sustainable solutions in the context of the entire life cycle of these industries. The papers, reflecting different settings, approaches, and frames, delineate some of the major common risks of the extractive industries to human health, environment, sustainable economies, and livelihoods. The authors elaborate some of the responses applied and needed to address these challenges."

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