Search

Environmental Injustice Concepts

eij_advanced_research_concepts_cover.png

Digital collection of resources for understanding and using critical concepts to characterize and respond to environmental injustice. 

pece_annotation_1476644153

Alexi Martin
Annotation of
In response to

Three ways the argument is supported is through descriptions of types of mental illness some may experience after a disaster: MDD,PTSD and substance abuse. Through the description of resilience and how most who experience a disaster tend to bounce back like a rubber band. Finally risk factors are discussed for those who can experience mental illness such as females and children- who are typically more compassionate and worrisome in comparison to other populations.

pece_annotation_1477851496

Alexi Martin

pece_annotation_1472858821

Alexi Martin
Annotation of
In response to

It is made and sustained through interviews of people who were there in the powr plant during the event, the surrounding citizens in the villages, Americans who came to intervene on their citizens, and people in Japan's government. Film footage is used to support the argument. The scientific information that is provided for support in the film was saying the levels of radiation around the plant as the situation became better and worse, the structure of the power plant (briefly), how to stop a nuclear meltdown.

pece_annotation_1479081735

Alexi Martin
Annotation of
In response to

The author is Byron Good, he is an American medical anthropologist studying mental illness at Harvard University . His work focuses on mental illness in Asian and Indonesian socities.