UNSCEAR 2013 Report: The Fukushima Accident This report is published by The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). It is to evaluate and report the levels and the effects of exposure on the ionising radiation.
This article has been used as a reference in other STS articles and books.
This convention has instructed clear enough for the first responders (i.e. the involving states) to get into action with any possible nuclear hazards reporting. For the technical professionals, the main webpage of the convention documents has a related resources column that assist them to gain relevant information with emergency responses via updated visualized data etc.
While this chapter does not discuss emergency response, its approach to discussing the public health aspects of immigrants and French policies created a discussion about how immigrants and others seeking asylum for various reasons should be treated. The focus of this chapter is more on the public health side of society and the humanitarian side of immigration.
The program itself is mainly funded by Handicap-International and USAID. For the other projects related to Haiti’s aftermath reconstruction are supported by AFD, ECHO, UN etc.
Through extensive data analysis and interviews, the authors were able to produce claims and formulate their argument. They used information from the NIH and other research and data already obtained to explore displacement in relation to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and age.
The product is designed in the way that the portable bridge can be expand from a folded mode to a bridge length takes up to across a river. It expanded in a scissor-like (90° turned scissor lift) action, then slides out the decks with end-to-end to provide platforms for vehicles.
This design is “Made of aluminum alloy and steel, it’s lightweight and easy to transport, yet sturdy enough for cars to cross.” [1]
The main point made about emergency response is the need for debriefing and how crucial that is for first responders as well as victims of trauma. They also highlight that emergency responders are some of the sufferers of mental illness and that debriefing could be a way to reduce that statistic.
They worked with a social ecology that is consider closely related to federal government, by control and prevent the issues can assist government boost the employment rate and further with economy boost.
The author of this article is Adriana Petryna. She is an Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in Anthropology at UPenn. She teaches primarily anthropology courses because her main interest lies in anthropological theory and methods, the social studies of science and technology, globalization and health, and medical anthropology. Her research focuses on the effects of cultural and political forces on science and medicine. She has written several books and articles.