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Omar Pérez: Submarine Roots, Resisting (un)natural disasters

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QUOTIDIAN ANTHROPOCENES: NEW ORLEANS

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What have you learned about anthropocenics in this place?

I am interested in seeing how social ties and networks have been used to cope with (un)natural disasters. My research focus on places under disasters conditions such as Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria, in which social ties have made the difference between life and death. Furthermore, “natural” disaster has been used to approved austerity measures and unjust policies to impoverished communities like in New Orleans after Katrina. These policies were not new, as they are rooted in structures of power to preserve the status quo. Yet, people have resisted, “through a network of branches, cultures, and geographies” that has stimulated a reflective process of looking within for solutions rather than outside. As often this outside solutions are not only detached from community’s reality but can perpetuate social injustices and inequalities.

McKittrick, K., & Woods, C. A. (Eds.). (2007). Black geographies and the politics of place. South End Press.

Bullard, R. D., & Wright, B. (Eds.). (2009). Race, place, and environmental justice after Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to reclaim, rebuild, and revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Westview Press.

Environmental Justice framing implications in the EIS

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Annotated Bibliography (EIS)

This link complements the Essay Bibliography of the Project Environmental Justice framing implications in the EIS.

Environmental Justice Framing Implications in the EIS. Essay Bibliography

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EPA Database on EISs

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IAEA: Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident

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

Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident. The convention is aimed to take a high level safety in any nuclear activities to prevent accidents or in the case of the accident happened, minimizing the consequences of the nuclear effects. Furthermore, the convention is encouraging countries (state) that undertaking the nuclear activities can exchange information on the accidents in order to gained an internationally cooperation on nuclear safeties.

What three points, details or references from the article did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the issues and actors described in the article?

With the lack of understanding of new disease (in this case, Ebola for the villagers), the trust crisis is easily raised up between publics and aid workers due to the fear of unknown things.
The number of death been announced can violate the faith that publics put into the aid workers. Acts of violence are the fears from the publics.
There is a lack of medical education in the area like Western African, Ebola has been there for three times since 1970s, and the publics still not having the correct perception on the disease awareness.