Formosa Plastics Global Archive 台灣塑膠檔案館
The Formosa Plastics Archive (FPA) (台灣塑膠檔案館) documents environmental disaster caused by one of the world's largest petrochemical companies.
Test project Pesticides and Protection Tanzania
testing out building a project
Resisting Naphtha Crackers
This collection documents the early protests against Formosa Plastics petrochemical development in Yilan County (see also Ho 2014
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They use aggregated interviews wherein all or many of the survivors repeat the same issues with long term effects of the disaster.
They also study the socioeconomic longterm effects of the disaster by comparing New Orleans years later to the past, showing how permanent an effect the storm had despite eventual recovery.
They also used sociological surveys that showed widespread mental health disorders that developed throughout the survivor population in greater frequency than that of the normal population due to the events that occured.
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The policy defines what an Institute for Mental Disorders is and and payment exclusions for those under medicaid (<21 or 22 y/o or >65 y/o).
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Andreas_Rebmann"This realization (of having to face Nuclear disasters) marks a major shift in our thinking about nuclear risk, away from accident prevention, and toward accident mitigation and more rigorous emergency preparedness."
"Severe nuclear accidents may thus require international instiutions to coordinate their mitigation."
"...the 'culture of control' (that is, attempts to regulate every last action of the operating staff) is too rigid to account for all imaginable situations... it would appear to be in the interest of voerall nuclear safety to log and learn from these incidents, rather than conceal them."
the rice irrigation scheme, Pare Valley, Tanzania