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What is the main argument, narrative and effect of this text? What evidence and examples support these?

Lee argues that EJ practice has long stagnated over an inability to properly define the concept of disproportionate (environmental and public health) impacts, but that national conversations on system racism and the development of EJ mapping tools have improved his outlook on the potential for better application of the concept of disproportionate impact. Lee identifies mapping tools (e.g. CalEnviroScreen) as a pathway for empirically based and analytically rigorous articulation and analysis of disproportionate impacts that are linked to systemic racism. In describing the scope and nature of application of mapping tools, Baker highlights the concept of cumulative impacts (the concentration of multiple environmental, public health, and social stressors), the importance of public participation (e.g. Hoffman’s community science model), the role of redlining in creating disproportionate vulnerabilities, and the importance of integrating research into decision making processes. Baker ultimately argues that mapping tools offer a promising opportunity for integrating research into policy decision making as part of a second generation of EJ practice. Key areas that Lee identifies as important to the continued development of more effective EJ practice include: identifying good models for quantitative studies and analysis, assembling a spectrum of different integrative approaches (to fit different contexts), connecting EJ research to policy implications, and being attentive to historical contexts and processes that produce/reproduce structural inequities.

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Chronic Disaster Syndrome: Displacement, Disaster Capitalism, and the Eviction of the Poor from New Orleans

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Describe at least three ways that the argument is supported.

The evidence is somewhat based on the findings of an issue of "American Anthropologist". A research project from the NIH is also a basis for evidence. Individuals that were involved with and impacted by Katrina also shared their stories.

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Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations

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How (if at all) is emergency response addressed in the article or report?

"Front Line" emergency response is not directly discussed in this article, however long term public health response in a broader sense is referenced extensively, and how the new dependant populations were dealt with was one of the major points of analisys of this article.

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IAEA: Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident

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Who does the policy apply to? (i.e. residents of California, globally, physicians)

This policy applies internationally, to 119 states who were subject to it after the entry to force date. 69 states signed the convention at the IAEA special meeting in 1986.

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The Narrative Representation of illness

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Can you learn anything from the article or report’s bibliography that tells us something about how the article or report was produced?

No bibliography for this article was provided or readily available on the internet. Based on the article and Dr. Good's works, it is likely that much of the information for the article was drawn from new research.

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Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine

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What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the complexities of emergency response?

Some additional points to research to forward understanding of emergency response would be:

-Structural Violance

-Societal factors influencing public health

-nationalized health insurance.

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The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism: Medicalising and Politicising Sexual Violence

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Where has this article or report been referenced or discussed?

According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 22 times in various works, with topics mainly focusing on the effects of humanitarian aid and social welfare on groups that are considered to be in the gender based minority, including women and the LBGTQ community.

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In the Shadow of Ebola

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What audiences does the film best address? Why?

I feel that this film would be best suited for a general public, non-scholarly, audiance. While it provides great, compelling, emotional stories of first hand accounts of ebola, it does not look at the disaster from an objective, scholarly, perspective.

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Medics Carrying guns

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What is the policy and what does it aim to achieve?

This policy aims to provide a measure of safety and comfort for Ohio EMS providers and firefighters who have to deal with the implications of major cutbacks in law enforcement funding.

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Lessons in the Rubble: The World Trade Center and the History of Disaster Investigations in the United States

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What are the main findings or arguments presented in the article?

This article examines how disaster investigations in the United States have evolved over time, from the burining of the capitol building near the birth of the republic through the theater fires and boiler explosions of industrialization to the collapse of the world trade centers at the present, showing how the modern, bureaucratic system of disaster investigation was built.