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Visualising Pare Valley: an introduction

Visualising Pare Cover

the rice irrigation scheme, Pare Valley, Tanzania

Test project Pesticides and Protection Tanzania

testing out building a project

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MSF: Pushed to the Limit and Beyond A year into the largest ever Ebola outbreak

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How does the report address matters of disaster and health?

The report addresses how strained public health infrastructures can get in the face of large scale epidemics like in the ebola outbreak. It analyzes the responses of local government, health care workers, and MSF in the ebola outbreak, discussing what could have been done to prevent the spread and severity of the disease.

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Lessons in the Rubble: The World Trade Center and the History of Disaster Investigations in the United States

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What were the methods, tools and/or data used to produce the claims or arguments made in the article or report?

Research came from newspaper articles, surviving letters, and other texts were used to produce the argument in the report regarding disaster investigation.

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Chronic Disaster Syndrome: Displacement, Disaster Capitalism, and the Eviction of the Poor from New Orleans

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How (if at all) is emergency response addressed in the article or report?

The article describes the situation in post-Katrina New Orleans as one where trauma is constantly happening and more work is going into emergency response than recovery. Instead of construction workers, social workers and the like, the military was sent by the government for aid after Katrina.

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Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations

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What are the main findings or arguments presented in the article?

The main findings in this article is the phenomenon of "biological citizenship" that occurred in the Ukraine after the Chernobyl disaster, how "scientific cooperation and political management" developed, and how sociopolitical factors affect the course of health and disease in a country.