EiJ Photo Essay: Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Photo essay for Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
Image: Soil Liquefaction Potential Maps, Yunlin County
The surface soil layer with loose soil and water-saturated soil not only has an amplifying effect on ground motions, but also may cause soil liquefaction.
Timeline: Formosa Plastics' Development & Investments
Image: Mk2010, via Wikicommons.
Image: Collage of Yunlin County
This is a collage of photos representing Yunlin County, including photos of the Xingang Fengtian Temple (Beigang), farmland (Dongshih), and
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Sara_NesheiwatA main concern is the fact that no disaster will ever be the same. A hurricane in one area will be very different in another area, despite the same source of destruction. This is because each areas has a different population, different needs and different services available in each area. The most challenging part is the ability to foresee what might be good resources or equipment or forms of medical care and best to supply at each different disaster since each one is unique.
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Sara_NesheiwatThere are numerous authors of this paper. Foghammar is from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in Sweden, as well as the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Jnag, Kyzy, Sullivan and Irwin are also from Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Weiss is from the Fafo Research Institute in Norway and Fall is from King's College London in the UK. Foghammar is very active in foreign affairs as well as economics, global health and political science fields. Suyoun Jang researches at SIPRI in the Security and Development Program and her focus is on fragile states, security and development. Kyzy is also a researcher at SIPRI, working on the impact evaluation of the peace program in Kyrgyzstan. Weiss has a PhD in social anthropology and her research areas include conflict, gender, political anthropology, migration and social suffering and torture. Their publications all relate to their respective fields of study within the anthropology and social science world.
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Sara_Nesheiwat"The demand for “public health preparedness” escalated as public health insti- tutions faced mounting concerns about, first, a possible bioterrorist attack and then, beginning in 2005, a devastating influenza pandemic. "
"There is the problem of regulation and responsibility: given the global scale of biological threats and their multiple sources, it is often unclear who has regulatory jurisdiction or responsibility for managing a
given disease event. "
"The emergency management approach thus seeks to develop techniques for managing health emergencies that can work independently of political context and of socioeconomic conditions. "
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