Case Studies Winter 2024
Case study reports produced by students in UCI Anthro25A, "Environmental Injustice," in Winter 2024.
Case study reports produced by students in UCI Anthro25A, "Environmental Injustice," in Winter 2024.
Slow disaster case study reports produced by students in UCI Anthro25A, "Environmental Injustice," in Fall 2022.
Combo disaster case study reports produced by students in UCI Anthro25A, "Environmental Injustice," in Fall 2022.
They have worked to improve the city of Newark in their resilience to server storms.
The communities of New Jersey was not ready for this powerful stomr that knocked power out widespread across the state. They were vulnerable to all things as no agency took the natural steps to protect its people who were hit by the storm.
A new 'switching site' was build to ensure less people would lose power in a disasterous storm like Hurricane Sandy.
The Jersey shore especially was vulnerable to a storm of this capcity, and showed how unprepared for the storm they were after the clouds settled. The boardwalk itself was obliterated and homes and roads were floodded. In New York, most train tranporttaion was halted as many of the lines had to undergo maintenance to bring it back to operating status.
In this PECE essay, there are numerous articles that discuss New Jersey's, mainly Newark's, vulnerabilities and resilience to hurricanes.