Formaldehyde and FEMA Trailers

Formaldehyde and FEMA Trailers
Author: Barry Leonard
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2009-09
Genre:
ISBN: 1437916562

A report on the issue of levels of formaldehyde (FM) reportedly emanating from travel trailers issued by FEMA after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast in 2005. FEMA distributed these trailers for use as temporary housing for those displaced as a result of the storms. This interim report evaluates the issue of FM and the trailer manufacturers who supplied units to FEMA after the 2005 hurricanes. It discusses the reasons the results of EPA and CDC studies are not without controversy. Agencies had widely varying and inconsistent concerns about FM and discusses the absence of federal standards regulating FM in indoor air. This report does not address the possible health effects assoc. with elevated or prolonged exposure to FM. Illus.

FEMA's Toxic Trailers

FEMA's Toxic Trailers
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2008
Genre: Science
ISBN:

The Wrong Complexion for Protection

The Wrong Complexion for Protection
Author: Robert D. Bullard
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0814799949

When the images of desperate, hungry, thirsty, sick, mostly Black people circulated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became apparent to the whole country that race did indeed matter when it came to government assistance. In The Wrong Complexion for Protection, Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright place the government response to natural and human-induced disasters in historical context over the past eight decades. They compare and contrast how the government responded to emergencies, including environmental and public health emergencies, toxic contamination, industrial accidents, bioterrorism threats and show that African Americans are disproportionately affected. Bullard and Wright argue that uncovering and eliminating disparate disaster response can mean the difference between life and death for those most vulnerable in disastrous times.

Underprivileged School Children and the Assault on Dignity

Underprivileged School Children and the Assault on Dignity
Author: Julia Hall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2014-07-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135133018

Every day, children living in low-income communities have no choice but to grow up in a climate where they experience multiple unending assaults to their sense of dignity. This volume applies theoretical and historical insights to think through the increasingly undignified realities of life in economically marginalized communities. It includes examples of curricular challenges that low-income students in the US confront today while attempting to learn. Curricular challenges are analyzed as material texts that emerge out of student lived experiences in the economically disposed neighborhoods in which schools are located, and the dynamics of the schools and classrooms themselves. Attention is also paid to educators and students who push back against these forces in an effort to reclaim voice, identity and dignity.

Toxic Trailers

Toxic Trailers
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007). Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
Publisher:
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2008
Genre: Emergency housing
ISBN:

Knowledge, Technology and Law

Knowledge, Technology and Law
Author: Emilie Cloatre
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1136002081

The relationships between knowledge, technologies, and legal processes are central to the constitution of contemporary societies. As such, they have come to provide the focus for a range of academic projects, across interdisciplinary legal studies and the social sciences. The domains of medical law and ethics, intellectual property law, environmental law and criminal law are just some of those within which the pervasive place and ‘impact’ of technoscience is immediately apparent. At the same time, social scientists investigating the making of technology and expertise - in particular, scholars working within the tradition of science and technology studies - frequently interrogate how regulation and legal processes, and the making of knowledge and technologies, are intermingled in complex ways that come to shape and define each other. This book charts the important interface between studies of law, science and society, as explored from the perspectives of socio-legal studies and the increasingly influential field of science and technology studies. It brings together scholars from both areas to interrogate the joint roles of law and science in the construction and stabilization of socio-technical networks, objects, and standards, as well as their place in the production of contemporary social realities and subjectivities.

Disaster Culture

Disaster Culture
Author: Gregory Button
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2016-06-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315430363

Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors attempt to create meaning and control social relations in post-disaster struggles for the redistribution of power.

Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina

Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina
Author: Robert D. Bullard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429977484

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws, poor planning, and false assumptions that are built into the emergency response and homeland security plans and programs. Questions linger: What went wrong? Can it happen again? Is our government equipped to plan for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from natural and manmade disasters? Can the public trust government response to be fair? Does race matter? Racial disparities exist in disaster response, cleanup, rebuilding, reconstruction, and recovery. Race plays out in natural disaster survivors' ability to rebuild, replace infrastructure, obtain loans, and locate temporary and permanent housing. Generally, low-income and people of color disaster victims spend more time in temporary housing, shelters, trailers, mobile homes, and hotels - and are more vulnerable to permanent displacement. Some 'temporary' homes have not proved to be that temporary. In exploring the geography of vulnerability, this book asks why some communities get left behind economically, spatially, and physically before and after disasters strike.