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Environmental Right-To-Know and the Transmutations of Law

Law does more than codify, regulate, and control; it also catalyzes and transmutes, provoking cascading social and cultural effects, particularly when the force of law is informational.

SfAA Panel: Beyond Environmental Injustice

Essay for the double-panel "Beyond Environmental Injustice", 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 22-27, 2021.

Repertoires of Knowledge in Times of Pandemic: Insight on the Fridays for Future Movement in Mexico (Mariana Arjona Soberón)

Abstract

With the patients, the data input into the system are the selections for the health assessment and their daily behavior progress. Providers then is able to enter an appropriate time for regular assessment for the patients.

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United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation

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What actors were behind the report? (government ordered report, NGO report, etc.)

UNSCEAR is made up of a group of scientific professions of the United Nation. This report does not serve politically or commercially. But, it is published to assist the state governments or organisations to prevent any possible hazards as a measurement tool.

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Ushahidi

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Who was the system built to serve, and why?

The Ushahidi Ecosystem has aimed to serve people that have limited access to the world, for example, areas around (East) Africa (“hard-to-reach places”). One of the event the platform focused on is the post-election violence in Kenya 2008, whereas people have raised their voice to the world via the handy technological tools.