C-Urge project is a doctoral network set up to research and better understand the complexity of climate and enviromental change, that is happening on global, as well as on a local scale.
Through various research approaches set in various countries, we aim to highlight the notion of urgency and need to enrich the debate around the topic of environemtal change, that is both fast, and subtle and poses a serious challenge for the future.
This collection includes case study research and civic archiving about the Middle German Chemical Triangle (or chemical triangle).
"Pioneers of modern public health during the 19th century, such as Fudolf Vichaw, understood that epidemic dieases and dismal life expentencies were tightly linked to social conditions."
"The results registered a few years later were dramatic:racial, gender, injection-drug use and socioeconmic dispute in outcomes largely disappeared within the study population."
"The idea of structure violence is linked very closely to social injustice and the monarcy of opressions."
Emergency reponse is dicussed in this article through analyzing what approaches should be taken to treat victims of rape
“World health is indivisible [and] we cannot satisfy our most parochial needs with attending to the health conditions of the whole globe”
“Viral pathogenicity is a property of not a virus in hibernation, but of an interaction between the virus and the “host” that is human beings.”
“Who should lead the fight against disease? Who should pay for it? And what are the best strategies and tactics to adopt?”
The main author Fughammer has areas of expertise in economics, politcal science and global health, he is a research fellow at Stockholm international peace institute. The other authors listed have expertise in healthcare and come from various research instituions. A variety of knowledge indicates a variety of perspectives on the subject.
The main arguments presented in this article is the history of disasters in the United States and the cause of buildings’ demise due to structural discrepancies. The historical accounts of the burning of the capital and the Iroquois theatre fire show how disaster investigation started and then evolved to the investigation of 9/11.
They rely on the internet, videos, blogs and first hand accounts in order to spread awareness.
The methods, tools and data used to produce the claims in the article include: creating an argument- having separate sections of the paper: a cause, an effect and the resounding outcome. The authors created a story through describing the horrible accounts of what happened during and after Katrina. The cause is the hurricane which caused displacement of most of the population due to the flooding from the broken levee. This caused the government to hire outside resources to house and “collect” citizens. This ultimately caused rent to increase,=, and pushed the poor out of New Orleans. Through developing a solid argument; the paper gains credibility. The claims were also supported through direct quotes and government statistics.