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Tumblr Post Digest for hlthenvt

2008 October 19 · Leave a Comment

[My apologies for the messy formatting and duplicates. I still can't get the Yahoo Pipes Cleaner to work properly. It isn't collecting all requested and doesn't clean up after itself. But the links should all work.]
The latest from Tumblr Regular Post Digest for hlthenvt

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Tumblred weeks of 25may, 1june, 8june 2008

2008 June 16 · Leave a Comment

[aging, Liz Taylor] How to Find an eldercare provider that is right for your parents

[anthropology, rural development] College student opens Kotzebue fabric shop

[rural, remote] Regional inequality rampant in provision of basic services in Finland

[energy, rural] Fuel prices to rise with first fuel barge shipment

[public involvement, watsan, CBR] A Community Guide to Environmental Health

[aging] World Elder [...]

Tags: Alaska · ES&H · Eskimo · digest · environmental change · more than thought · rural · teachers

Tumblred week(s) of 2008apr11

2008 April 11 · Leave a Comment

[I can't get Yahoo Pipes Cleaner Greasemonkey script to work properly to clean up yahoo's messy coding.]
[aging] Re: road colouring theorem
Subject: Re: road colouring theorem Hooray for those of us in our 60s! Like we suddenly turn brain dead? SW On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:51 PM, M Pamela Bumsted wrote: “March 28, 2008 [...]

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Tumblr for week of 22mar2008

2008 March 22 · Leave a Comment

[health, tribal law] Court allows suit against tribe for faulty homes

I don’t know how this is related to the Blue Legs decision, but that may also be relevant. Tribal governments have a trust responsibility towards their members as part of their recognition as tribal governments by the US. (and a moral responsibility for quality housing) [...]

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Anthropology in a climate of change, war, and internecine environments 2

2007 November 29 · 2 Comments

[In process]
Background*
Part 1**
Part 2*** From a follow-up to the newslist discussion about anthropology and climate change–
Q. “So…what can we do to solve this problem? Can we think like engineers?”
Please, don’t. Not even anthropological engineers. For example, see this —

Tags: AI/AN · Alaska · Eskimo · Kuskokwim · NZ · New Mexico · Pueblo · anthropology · communities · environmental change · planning · public involvement · sanitation · sciencing · solid waste

Anthropology in a climate of change, war, and internecine environments 1

2007 November 28 · 2 Comments

[In process]
Background*
Part 1**
Part 2*** [separate post]
* Background
I think there is a need for anthropological perspective in any issue of human existence.
It is a sad irony that the discipline (science) which is most comprehensive and fundamental (science is a human activity and the basic science of human activity is anthropology) has often seemed through its [...]

Tags: Alaska · Kuskokwim · LANL · anthropology · communities · environmental change · nuclear · organizational culture · planning · public involvement · sciencing

Solid waste management in emergencies

2007 January 5 · Leave a Comment

WHO WEDC emergency notes has the list of tech guides available from WHO. One of the notes is about solid waste.
Many of their suggestions are the same as the ones I developed with rural northern Alaska Villages for interim solid waste management.

Site Search Tags: interim+solid+waste, SWMP, Katrina, disaster

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Emergency water and sanitation handbooks WCED WHO

2007 January 5 · Leave a Comment

These are pdf files of the Emergency publications series, produced by WEDC Publications, Water, Engineering and Development Centre, Loughborough University
Emergency Publications on CD, Bob Reed (ed.)This pc compact disk comprises the electronic (pdf) files of the entire series of Emergency publications produced by WEDC to date.This is an invaluable and handy resource for all aid [...]

Tags: communities · planning · rural · sanitation · solid waste

regional nuclear war climate change?

2006 December 12 · 2 Comments

In 1985 I put together a panel of scientific experts to identify what the human effects of a nuclear weapons exchange might mean (as far as I know, still the only such report) and then assisted in the discussion in New Zealand.

The Anthropology of Human Survival -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/01/12/ the-anthropology-of-human-survival/

New Zealand after Nuclear War -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/02/20/ new-zealand-after-nuclear-war/

I moved [...]

Tags: anthropology · environmental change · nuclear · planning

New Zealand after Nuclear War

2006 February 20 · 3 Comments

Anthropological Aspects of “New Zealand after Nuclear War” [1987-1988]
Comments on the findings of the book, NZ after NW, are due to the Minister of the Environment by 27 November 1987. Written ideas for an anthropological submission to the Ministry are needed by 5 November to M. Pamela Bumsted.
References and background material are located in the [...]

Tags: NZ · anthropology · communities · environmental change · nuclear · planning · public involvement

The Anthropology of Human Survival

2006 January 12 · 8 Comments

Originally (1985) the discussion focussed on Nuclear Winter. But the basics of what it means to be human are relevant to tsunamis, earthquakes, and hurricanes among other tragedies. The late 20th century as in the late 14th century (and in the 20 centuries before then) saw entire communities of people massacred by their neighbors. [...]

Tags: LANL · anthropology · environmental change · nuclear · planning

Biocultural Dimensions of Environment and Health

2006 January 11 · 5 Comments

Bumsted, M. Pamela, Karen S. Young, and Leon H. Tafoya 1994 Biocultural Dimensions of Health and Environment. In John S. Andrews, Howard Frumkin, Barry L. Johnson, Myron A. Mehlman, Charles Xintaras, and Jeanne A. Bucsela, eds. Hazardous Waste and Public Health: International Congress on the Health Effects of Hazardous Waste. pp. 245-252. Princeton: Princeton Scientific [...]

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