California Desert Communities: Community Science in the Salton Sea
This is a collection of community science in the Salton Sea in California Desert Communities.
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josh.correiraOne argument presented is that public engagement in technical decisions can lead to great vigilance and confidence in emergency preparedness and that decisions governing technologies should not be left to the scientist. There is benefit in including lay people and STS scholars. This also includes public awareness about emergency response instead of one elite governing body controlling what is best for the public. Nuclear emergency responses must be transparent.
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josh.correiraThe students who complete the program receive a PhD after either 4 or 5 years, as described above
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josh.correiraThe report consists of the main article followed by a response from Andrea Binder of the Global Public Policy Institute.
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josh.correiraThe authors are Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff. They both have PhDs in anthropology and are professors are educational institutions. Collier is a professor of International Affairs at The New School and Lakoff is a professor of sociology at USC. They are professionally situated to discuss emergency response as they have done research in biosecurity and biothreats.
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josh.correiraThe organization has done research and generated fact sheets on statistics like injuries, behavior health, and environmental safety.
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Hamyetun.NaharOne of the main vulnerabilities that affect the community, is time and money. As the individuals have to wait for a long time, the report estimates that approximately 810,680 gallons of fuel is burned and wasted. This is a paramount issue with the rising cost of gas everyday. As many say, time is money. This relates to those stuck in these jams because these jams, along with large amounts of gas also wastes a lot of time. Motorists spend about 1.5 million hours annually sitting in traffic annually. In addition, $38 are wasted in those 1.5 million hours.
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josh.correiraInformation and data to create this article was pulled from numerous sources (5 pages of references), esp. The International Atomic Energy Agency, and many research articles.
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josh.correiraAIDS care was studied in the united states and it was found that social factors were more predicting than individual factors about whether or not an individual would contract the disease
This was also studied in Rwanda using a model designed in Haiti using the “PIH model of care” to study social inequalities and prevent the effects of poverty that lead to death by AIDS, TB, malaria.
Structural interventions were also incorporated into clinical medicine as it was argued that social interventions, while not traditionally part of a physician's duties, have more of an impact that clinical interventions
A series of visualizations of the concept of "fast disasters."