Search | Disaster STS Network

Visualising Pare Valley: an introduction

Visualising Pare Cover

the rice irrigation scheme, Pare Valley, Tanzania

Test project Pesticides and Protection Tanzania

testing out building a project

COVID19 Places: India

This essay scaffolds a discussion of how COVID19 is unfolding in India. A central question this essay hopes to build towards is: If we examine the ways COVID19 is unfolding in India, does "Ind

COVID19 India Group November 2020 Update

This is a collage made from the visuals discussed by this artifact's contributors at the T-STS COVID19 India Group meeting on November 24, 2020

pece_annotation_1473100411

harrison.leinweber

Annotation of

Nuclear Emergency Response: Atomic Priests or an International SWAT Team?

In response to

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

By examining the bibliography, it appears that this report was produced after the author conducted a great deal of research including interviewing other experts in the field and reading many other texts on the subject. One could also gather that the author examined publications by agencies relevant to the topic such as theIAEA and the US NRC.

pece_annotation_1473633666

harrison.leinweber

Annotation of

Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine

In response to

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

This article didn't really have anything related to emergency response in it;however, I did look at how initial treatment following an exposure to HIV can decrease your chances of it taking hold in your body.

pece_annotation_1474235326

harrison.leinweber

Annotation of

The Problem of Securing Health

In response to

What were the methods, tools and/or data used to produce the claims or arguments made in the article or report?

I could not find the answer to this prompt as there were not citations listed on the article.

pece_annotation_1474834033

harrison.leinweber

Annotation of

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

In response to

Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

Scott Knowles is the Head of the Department of History at Drexel University in Pennsylvania. He specializes in the history of technology, disaster, and public policy. He has a number of other publications that are relevant to the DSTS Network including a book, The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America, and co-authored "Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster, and a volume on the Fukushima disasters. He is not professionally situated among emergency responders; however, he does conduct research on the subject.