Sugar plantations, Chemical Plants, COVID-19
The chemical plants in Cancer Alley are built where there once were sugar plantations. Descendants of enslaved communities still live nearby.
Combo Disaster and Environmental Injustice
Join us for the Disaster STS Network’s Fall 2021 virtual tour of Louisiana's Cancer Alley, a corridor of chemical plants along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans with shockin
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jaostranderThe article explores the sociopolitical issues those affected by the Chernobyl incident now face. The article describes a society that has developed in the affected Chernobyl community which people are fully dependant on health care systems and the politics governing them take the prescident over many other issues.
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This system offers data on long term and short term health disorders of those exposed to 9/11.
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The author of the article conducted research my interviewing inmates and looking into legal cases and government actions.
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Schmid used various other books, research articles, and industry reports to write this article. Her research history of nuclear industry in Eastern Europe and Russia helped to strengthen the claims she made.
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Emergency response is not specifically addressed in this article, but the ideas of how patients interpret their disease is useful to emergency responders so they understand methods of gathering information and initial patient care.
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This study was funded by Grants-in-aid for the Cancer Control Policy from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan.