Download or read book An Overview of the Marine Life Disaster in Vietnam written by Trees Green and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report aims to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of the sea death-fish death disaster in 2016, the worst-ever environmental disaster so far in Vietnam, which is caused by a Taiwanese company, Formosa. While the initial consequences of the disaster first surfaced in April 2016, other consequences are expected to follow in dozens of years to come.The report targets two groups of readers: Vietnamese people and regional and international civil society organizations, with the hope that this will serve as a powerful voice calling for urgent actions to protect the environment.
Download or read book Measuring Socioeconomic Effects of Environmental Disasters written by Nguyen Dinh Tuan Vuong (Ph.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three chapters. Each chapter is a study that I have conducted during my time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The common theme of these chapters is measuring the socioeconomic impacts of spatially distributed shocks with a focus on environmental disasters. The first chapter studies the legacy of herbicidal warfare deployed during the Second Indochina War on exposed communities. The second chapter documents the contemporary changes in earnings and employment of affected saltwater fishers after the 2016 Vietnam Marine Life Disaster. The third chapter explains models using distance to geographical objects as an instrumental variable, a popular method in applied microeconomics.In the first chapter, I estimate the persistent health effects of exposure to dioxin (2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin) from the Second Indochina War on exposed communities. During the war, the US military sprayed about 20 million gallons of herbicides for defoliation and crop destruction. About two-thirds of the herbicides were Agent Orange, which contained dioxin. Exploiting the concealment of the information on dioxin contamination from the general public by herbicide producers, I compare the effects of dioxin-contaminated and dioxin-free herbicides that had similar functions and find that highly exposed communities still exhibit worse health outcomes than lightly exposed communities. I also find that human capital accumulation, labor outcomes, and economic activities are negatively associated with dioxin exposure. Even though herbicidal warfare was unique to the Second Indochina War, the insight from this paper spreads beyond this context, because i) there are similar situations, such as the military burn pits in US military bases in the Middle East, and ii) dioxin and dioxin-alike chemicals could come from industrial sources. The second chapter is the result of my collaboration with Trung Hoang, Duong Le, and Ha Nguyen, in which each of us contributed equally to conceptualization, data analysis, writing, and editing. This project analyzes the impacts of the 2016 Vietnam Marine Life Disaster, referred to as the Formosa disaster in the chapter. In April 2016, pollution from the Formosa steel plant caused mass fish deaths to wash ashore in four provinces in central Vietnam, including Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, and Thua Thien Hue. Applying the difference-in-difference method, we studied the impacts on the local saltwater fishery industry and the coping mechanisms of affected fishers using two control groups. The geographic control group consists of fishers in unaffected provinces from Phu Yen to the south. The industry control group consists of workers in unaffected industries, including manufacturing, construction, and retail, who reside in the four affected provinces. The estimation results show a heterogeneous change in fishing activities and the employment and income of fishers after the event. The impacts hit downstream provinces, Quang Tri and Thua Thien Hue, harder than upstream provinces, Ha Tinh and Quang Binh. Satellite data suggest that the affected upstream fishers traveled north to unaffected waters to continue fishing, explaining the lessened impact on them. We published these results in the Journal of Development Economics. The third chapter focuses on models using distance to geographical objects as an instrumental variable. Many applied microeconomics papers employ this method to estimate the long-term socioeconomic impacts of historical or contemporary shocks, which may include environmental disasters. A common argument for instrument validity is the exogeneity of instrumented geographical objects. However, the analysis reveals that an IV model divides the sample into two groups based on the residual of regressing the geographic distance IV on covariates: observations with positive residuals versus negative residuals. Within each subsample, the model assigns more weight to observations with higher absolute values of the residual linearly. Since a geographical distance IV model involves a mechanical comparison between two specific groups of locations, defending the instrument validity requires background information on related areas. The third chapter is the result of an ongoing research project. During the first and second years of my Ph.D. studies, I worked to address the impacts of a newly built Ho Chi Minh Highway on local communities and deforestation. The chosen method involved using the distance to the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the military trail used by the North Vietnamese Army during the Second Indochina War, as an instrumental variable. However, I had to delay this project because I realized that I did not fully understand the method. This chapter provides the answers I wish I had known, and I believe it will benefit other researchers in similar situations.
Download or read book Beyond Straw Men written by Phaedra C. Pezzullo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing plastics can feel overwhelming. Guilt, shame, anger, hurt, fear, dismissiveness, and despair abound. Beyond Straw Men moves beyond “hot take” or straw man fallacies by illustrating how affective counterpublics mobilized around plastics reveal broader stories about environmental justice and social change. Inspired by on- and offline organizing in the Global South and the Global South of the North, Phaedra C. Pezzullo engages public controversies and policies through analysis of hashtag activism, campaign materials, and podcast interviews with headline-making advocates in Bangladesh, Kenya, the United States, and Vietnam. She argues that plastics have become an articulator of crisis and an entry point into the contested environmental politics of carbon-heavy masculinity, carceral policies, planetary fatalism, eco-ableism, greenwashing, marine life endangerment, pollution colonialism, and waste imperialism. Attuned to plastic attachments, Beyond Straw Men illustrates how everyday people resist unsustainable patterns of the plastics-industrial complex through imperfect but impactful networked cultures of care.
Download or read book Vietnam s Dissidents written by Susann Pham and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first ethnography on Vietnam’s contemporary dissident movement. As a country that became known and is still remembered as one of the last remnants of Communist revolutions, Vietnam has managed to lift itself from one of the poorest war-torn post-colonies to one of the fastest growing market economies in Southeast Asia. Yet, while holding on to the legacy of a communist-led liberation movement, the present-day Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) finds itself subject to political challenges from below. In recent years, dissident voices critical of the party-state's malgovernance over social, economic and environmental issues have mushroomed across classes, generations and provinces. Based on extensive ethnographic data, this book explores distinct political practices and political ideas of Vietnam's dissidents. It examines different anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian practices of democracy, labour, peasant and religious activists and reveals that anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian practices are—at times—motivated by nationalist, anti-communist and statist ideas and ideologies. Understanding this dissonance between political practices and political ideas within the context of global capitalism and coloniality lies at the heart of this book.
Download or read book Vietnam and the United States written by Le Thuy Trang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the unfolding new relationship between Vietnam and the United States (US) since the end of the Cold War, discussing how the relationship has emerged as one of the most intriguing facets of the regional geopolitical landscape and how the two countries turned from staunch adversaries to partners within the span of four decades after the end of the Vietnam War. It explains in particular the interplay between international relations factors, such as the US’ rivalry with China, and domestic factors in both countries, which, the book argues, are crucial to understanding the changing relationship. Overall, the book provides many insights into Vietnamese foreign policy and a rich context for those seeking to understand the prospects of closer Vietnam–US ties or actually trying to broaden the vistas of bilateral cooperation between Hanoi and Washington.
Download or read book Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam written by Nguyen Danh Thao and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam is the first book to focus specifically on natural hazards and climate change in Vietnam. The book examines threats such as tropical cyclones, sea-level rise, flooding, erosion, and salinity intrusion, and their respective effects on coastal structures and environments. It also looks at crucial management and mitigation efforts, including breakwater design, irrigation systems, coastal dunes and dikes, and more. The challenges faced by this country in the future will have important regional and global repercussions; areas such as the Mekong Delta produce a significant proportion of the world's rice, and coastal impacts on this region will have far-reaching economic and public health effects. This book is an important source of information for government and local policy makers, environmental and climate scientists, and engineers. - Broad coverage of climate challenges specific to the region, including sea-level rise, storms, erosion, and more - Assessments of impact on, and effects of, economic development and port construction - Examination of public policy responses to climate change
Download or read book A Different Light written by Jennifer Thomas and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Different Light is a first-person novel written from the pages of the authors diary during her years tour of duty in Da Nang, Vietnam from October 1967 to October 1968. Hired by the Red Cross, she worked on the III Marine Amphibious Force, headquarters for the First and Third Marine Divisions. There she delivered hundreds of death-and-disaster messages as well as being available 24/7 for emotional support during a war no one understood. Long hours at work and exposure to the Wars ugliness at its height proved to be costly on her stamina and compassion. She saw death, decay, beauty and newness, first love and hate, and marveled at the extremes all lived under. She witnessed survival tactics used by civilians, the military and even herself in a thankless, unappreciated, poorly run and ultimately, forsaken war. Everyone was confused by the Wars politics, lack of emotional support from home, the inability to get ahead and the ultimate sacrifices so many gave for what was thought as Freedom for the Oppressed. It was time to grow up. Jenny was born in Southern California in 1944. Life was normal for her and her two brothers but when her mother died when Jenny was three years old, life became bleak at the hands of the wicked stepmother of the West. Graduation from Hi School in 1962, college in 1966 with a Sociology degree, Jenny volunteered to work as a counselor and bookkeeper for the Red Cross. She spent six months in Southern California, a year in Vietnam, nine months in San Francisco, two years in Germany and finally back to work on a Naval Base in the Pacific Northwest. Here she found love for the beautiful ever-green countryside, the marine atmosphere of Puget Sound and a Navy man. Now married for thirty-eight years, she has three handsome sons, three beautiful daughters-in-law and three adorable grandchildren. Jenny loves her family, horses, fishing, boating, the mountains, and the saltwater. She remains active in her community by selling real estate as well as reading, working in her garden, and making new friends.
Download or read book Guide to California s Marine Life Management Act written by Michael L. Weber and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Justice written by Barry E. Hill and published by Environmental Law Institute. This book was released on 2009 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental risks and harms affect certain geographic areas and populations more than others. The environmental justice movement is aimed at having the public and private sectors address this disproportionate burden of risk and exposure to pollution in minority and/or low-income communities, and for those communities to be engaged in the decision-making processes. Environmental Justice provides an overview of this defining problem and explores the growth of the environmental justice movement. It analyzes the complex mixture of environmental laws and civil rights legal theories adopted in environmental justice litigation. Teachers will have online access to the more than 100 page Teachers Manual.
Download or read book The Performative State written by Iza Yue Ding and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State shows how the state can shape public perceptions and defuse crises through the theatrical deployment of language, symbols, and gestures of good governance—performative governance. Iza Ding unpacks the black box of street-level bureaucracy in China through ethnographic participation, in-depth interviews, and public opinion surveys. She demonstrates in vivid detail how China's environmental bureaucrats deal with intense public scrutiny over pollution when they lack the authority to actually improve the physical environment. They assuage public outrage by appearing responsive, benevolent, and humble. But performative governance is hard work. Environmental bureaucrats paradoxically work themselves to exhaustion even when they cannot effectively implement environmental policies. Instead of achieving "performance legitimacy" by delivering material improvements, the state can shape public opinion through the theatrical performance of goodwill and sincere effort. The Performative State also explains when performative governance fails at impressing its audience and when governance becomes less performative and more substantive. Ding focuses on Chinese evidence but her theory travels: comparisons with Vietnam and the United States show that all states, democratic and authoritarian alike, engage in performative governance.
Download or read book Last Men Out written by Bob Drury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Last Men Out" tells the riveting story of the last 11 United States soldiers to escape South Vietnam on April, 30, 1975, the day America ended its combat presence.
Download or read book Marine Down Corpsman Up written by Ron Mosbaugh and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a highly decorated sailor, relates the history of his thirteen-month tour of duty in wartime Vietnam in 19661967. He, embedded within the Marine Corps, tells about treating the wounded while exposed to live-fire conditions on everything from squad-size patrols to company-size missions. The author also relates how he fulfilled his responsibility for the marines health in camp; he was often the only medical person within miles. He describes the procedures for getting the wounded aboard a helicopter and transferred to a field hospital. Added to his responsibilities was caring for civilians as the United States tried to win the hearts of the Vietnamese people. He even had to treat a wounded Vietnamese who was still wearing the bandage he got from a prior skirmish with the Americans. Of equal interest to the author are the effects of battle not only on the warrior at the time but also in his life after military service. PTSD even affected this corpsman, and he suffers from itboth inpatient and outpatient experiences. Nineteen years old at the time of the war, he describes how quickly youth and social behavior are lost in combat. The author tells his story in fresh, readable prose and does not lose the reader in the actions of higher authority. He gives personal statements in a short reflection at the end of each chapter.
Download or read book Security Development And Sustainability In Asia A World Scientific Reference On Major Policy And Development Issues Of 21st Century Asia In 3 Volumes written by Zhiqun Zhu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third decade of the 21st century, Asia remains the global center of economics, politics and security. Asia is at the forefront of wealth creation, innovation, and sustainability. There is a growing demand for knowing more about Asia. This Major Reference Set (MRS) is designed to help general readers as well as specialists to have a good grasp of the latest developments in Asia in the key areas of geopolitics, geoeconomics, and sustainability.With 3 volumes, this MRS covers all major dimensions of Asia's political economy, regional security, and sustainable development. Volume 1 unpacks and examines geopolitics and foreign policy strategies of key Asian states in response to major security challenges associated with growing US-China rivalry.Volume 2 covers geoeconomics, entrepreneurship, regional integration, and development models. Trade, investment, innovation, and regional cooperation have been essential to Asia's continued success.Volume 3 offers a critical overview of environment, public health, and human security in Asia. Case studies are selected from countries that are at different stages of development and facing different environment and health challenges today.This interdisciplinary MRS is a fine example of international cooperation, with contributors who are all established scholars and experts in their fields of study hailing from different parts of Asia as well as North America and Europe. It is a must-have for anyone keen on understanding Asia's dynamic development and daunting challenges in the post-COVID world.
Download or read book Vietnam at the Vanguard written by Jamie Gillen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This transdisciplinary edited book explores new developments and perspectives on global Vietnam, touching on aspects of history, identity, transnational mobilities, heritage, belonging, civil society, linguistics, education, ethnicity, and worship practices. Derived from the Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue conference series, this cutting-edge collection presents new scholarship and also represents new ways of knowing global Vietnam. Over the past 10 years, knowledge production about Vietnam has diversified in various ways as globalization, the internationalization of higher education, and the digital revolution have transformed the world, as well as Vietnam. Whereas as late as a decade ago, knowledge about Vietnam was still largely the preserve of scholars in Vietnam and a coterie of related experts outside of the country at a select few universities, today we find scholars working on Vietnam in myriad contexts. This transformation has introduced new voices and new perspectives, which this book champions. A critical text engaging a range of historical and contemporary debates about Vietnam, this book is an indispensable volume for the Southeast Asian Studies student and scholar in the humanities and social sciences.
Download or read book Reconfiguring Global Societies in the Pre Vaccination Phase of the COVID 19 Pandemic written by Jack Fong and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconfiguring Global Societies in the Pre-Vaccination Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic examines lived experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in communities and societies around the world before the arrival of vaccines. This collection presents analyses of scholars from eight countries, all of whom were engaged in the unfolding crisis of social forces across the world. This timely volume conveys valuable insights about how public officials, the state, healthcare workers, and, ultimately, citizens responded to consequences of the pandemic upon not only the body but also social relations in community, city, and society. The contributing scholars document how state apparatuses, urban configurations, places of employment, legal structures, and ways of life responded to crisis-altered social conditions during the pandemic. The book investigates what societies experiencing crisis around the world reveal about the state’s efficacy and inefficacy in fulfilling its social contract for its citizens, especially on unresolved issues related to social relations based on politics, race, ethnicity, gender, and crime. This collection brings together a cross section of scholars experiencing the same temporal moment of crisis together, watching and observing how the pandemic of their age uncoiled itself into the fabric of community, onto the institutions and bureaucracies of society, and into the most intimate confines of the home.
Download or read book U S Marines In Vietnam The Landing And The Buildup 1965 written by Dr. Jack Shulimson and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume in a series of chronological histories prepared by the Marine Corps History and Museums Division to cover the entire span of Marine Corps involvement in the Vietnam War. This volume details the Marine activities during 1965, the year the war escalated and major American combat units were committed to the conflict. The narrative traces the landing of the nearly 5,000-man 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and its transformation into the ΙII Marine Amphibious Force, which by the end of the year contained over 38,000 Marines. During this period, the Marines established three enclaves in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps, and their mission expanded from defense of the Da Nang Airbase to a balanced strategy involving base defense, offensive operations, and pacification. This volume continues to treat the activities of Marine advisors to the South Vietnamese armed forces but in less detail than its predecessor volume, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1954-1964; The Advisory and Combat Assistance Era.
Download or read book Dispatches from the South China Sea written by James Borton and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of continuous coastal development, reclamation, destruction of corals, overfishing and increased maritime traffic places all of us on the front lines of preserving our oceans. Marine biologists, who share a common language that cuts across political, economic and social differences, recognize that the sea’s remarkable coral reefs, which provide food, jobs and protection against storms and floods, have suffered unprecedented rates of destruction in recent decades. Dispatches from the South China Sea’s blend of participatory research and field reportage paves the way for a transformation of policy and, provides a basis for the eventual resolution of some of today’s major maritime conflicts. From overfishing, illegal and unregulated fishing, coral reef destruction and reclamations, Dispatches from the South China Sea charts science-driven cooperation opportunities. James Borton purposefully and passionately argues that the South China Sea can become a body of water that unites, rather than divides.
