On December 3 1984, more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, immediately killing at least 3,800 people and causing significant morbidity and premature death for many thousands more. The company involved in what became the worst industrial accident in history immediately tried to dissociate itself from legal responsibility. Eventually it reached ...

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At present, global climate changes on the Earth made a rational land use, environmental monitoring, prediction of natural and technological disasters, etc the tasks of great importance. The basis for the solution of these crucial problems lies in the integrated use of data of different nature: modeling data, in‐situ measurements and observations, and indirect observations such as airborne and s...

it is widely accepted in many parts of the world thatcommunity nurses are of vital importance in various phases of disaster response and management. in china, however, it is not clear whether the chinese community nurses are able to assume disaster-related duties due to the lack of a systematic assessment.a pre-designed and well-tested questionnaire was employed to evaluate the competency in di...

LE WANG{, JIN CHEN*{, PENG GONG§, HIROTO SHIMAZAKI" and MASAYUKI TAMURA" {Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14261, USA {Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster, Beijing Normal University, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing 100875, China §Center for Assessment and Monitoring of Forest and Environmental Resources (CAMFER), 145 M...

The attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) created an acute environmental disaster of enormous magnitude. This study characterizes the environmental exposures resulting from destruction of the WTC and assesses their effects on health. Methods include ambient air sampling; analyses of outdoor and indoor settled dust; high-altitude imaging and modeling of the atmospheric plume; inhalation studies...

Executive Summary This Environmental and Climate Change Policy Brief has been written as an input to the Poverty and Development Assessment that Sida is undertaking as part of the preparation of a revised Swedish cooperation strategy with Zambia. It aims at briefly presenting key environmental sustainability challenges and opportunities (including climate change and disaster risk reduction) in ...

Perhaps one day, the "Right to Know" could become as basic to a democratic society as the right tofree speech. The first issue of the revised Environmental Health Perspectives was published on Earth Day 1993. This April 2000 issue marks the seventh anniversary of the revised EHP and the first anniversary to fall in the new millennium. The overarching purpose of any journal should be to provide ...

The immediate physical damages caused by environmental disasters are conspicuous and often the focus of media and government attention. In contrast, the nature and magnitude of post-disaster losses remain largely unknown because they are not easily observable. Here we exploit annual variation in the incidence of typhoons (West-Pacific hurricanes) to identify post-disaster losses within Filipino...

This work investigates the narratives of corporations, public agencies, politicians, unions, lawyers, public attorneys and community in different public inquiries undertaken as a response to an organizationally-based environmental disaster in Brazil. In order to understand the phenomenon, this paper creates a framework that integrates sensemaking, narrative analysis and theater metaphor. Then w...