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Project: Environmental Injustice in Kaohsiung

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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FIRST RESPONDERS’ ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY DUE TO MASS DECONTAMINATION RUNOFF

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What is the policy and what does it aim to achieve?

The policy is to extend Good Samaritan laws to first responders so that they would not be liable for "spreading contamination while attempting to save lives."

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The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism: Medicalising and Politicising Sexual Violence

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Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

Miriam Ticktin is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at The New School For Social Research in New York City. Her research focuses on "what it means to make political claims in the name of a universal humanity" and more recently looks at humanitarianism at various levels. For emergency response her work focuses more on response done for humanitarian aid and displaced peoples.

http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/?id=4d54-6379-4e44-4d35