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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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Hurricane Sandy Oral History Project

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What kinds of information relevant to a community's vulnerability or resilience are unavailable or inaccessible?

This article explains the horrible effect Sandy had on the Shore area. The devastation to the entire area. People sufffered and are still suffering. This article shows interviews from many different people on how they over came and built back from Sandy.

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NJ is Storm Proofing In Response to Hurricane Sandy

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What forms of precaution were exercised regarding the hazard(s)?

This article explains that there is still desvestation from Hurrican Sandy. Raw sweage seeped in the Passica River and the efforts to remove it still exist. New Jersey's infrasture is very vulnerable. The DEP developed a 230 million system to build flood walls and hopefully this will help in case of future storm.