Fast Disaster (Hazardous Waste)
Fast disasters are environmental hazards that erupt quickly, that often require an emergency response.
Slow Disaster (Asthma)
This indicator represents an asthma rate. It is an estimate of the number of emergency department visits for asthma per 10,000 people over the years 2015 to 2017.
Community Assets (AHS)
At the school there are various community assets.
Indigenous Past/Present Tongva Tribe
There is one main indigenous group that settled in Azusa. They are called the Tongva Tribe.
Eric Arguelles Biographical Profile: UCI EcoGovLab Internship Program Azusa 2023
Eric Arguelles talks about his academic and career interests, where he sees himself in 2050, his interest in environmental issues.
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joerene.aviles1. “Chronic disaster syndrome” thus refers in this analysis to the cluster of trauma-and posttrauma-related phenomena that are at once individual, social, and political and that are associated with disaster as simultaneously causative and experiential of a chronic condition of distress in relation to displacement.
2. Most efforts to rebuild health care facilities focused on emergency care, routine care, and surgical services rather than psychiatry.
3. For many people, the idea that they had to stay in a state of heightened response to the pending “crisis”—a state they had already been in for over two years—produced huge anxiety and exhaustion.
4. Instead, the notion that New Orleanians themselves were a threat to public or national security circulated and became a rationale for the efforts the government did take to effect change in New Orleans. This change, in effect, targeted the poor. The poor, it seems, were to be evicted from New Orleans as a way to “clean up” the city and help it recover once and for all.
This is a powerpoint slide on Spatial Representation.