Combo Disasters Answer Key

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Select all that apply: The City of Richmond has identified the following climate change-related threats to the city:

environmental organizations that advocate for a “just transition”
potential for coastal flooding from sea level rise
water scarcity due to increased unreliability of runoff from the Sierra Nevada Mountains
potential for heat stress, with particular impacts on the City’s more vulnerable residents.

Select one: A 2019 US Government Accounting Office report describes the San Jacinto River waste pits Superfund site near Houston. Dioxins, chemicals that can cause cancer and liver and nerve damage, were dumped in and near the San Jacinto River from paper mills in the 1960s. In 2021, the EPA required the paper mills responsible for the cleanup to install a temporary cap over the waste. Since installation, however, the EPA has observed repeated damage to the cap, including during Hurricane Harvey in 2017, damage that led to high levels of dioxins detected in the area. This is an example of

a combo-disaster
climate change mitigation

Select all that apply: In March 2022, NPR published an article titled “Climate change threatens nearly one third of U.S. hazardous chemical facilities.” The article highlights how RMP facilities face threats from

prolonged power outages from heat waves or storms.
internal sabotage.
flooding from severe storms and sea level rise.
Wildfires.

License

Creator(s)

Kim Fortun

Margaret Tebbe

Contributors

Katie Vo

Contributed date

August 30, 2023 - 5:08pm

Critical Commentary

Answers for quiz questions related to the concept of "combo disasters."

Group Audience

EcoEd Design Space

Cite as

Kim Fortun and Margaret Tebbe, "Combo Disasters Answer Key", contributed by Katie Vo, Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 30 August 2023, accessed 28 November 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/combo-disasters-answer-key

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