FIU Nursing Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Discussion

Watch one of the videos (these are listed under the tab Environmental Disasters) describing some very large local and global environmental disasters and answer the following questions for this weeks discussion topic.

Step 1: What environmental health issues emerged as a result of the disaster; make sure to be specific and to support your responses with rationales that come from this week’s readings.

Step 2: How does the disaster fit in with the concept of environmental justice? Make sure to describe what you understand environmental justice to be and how the specific disaster you chose for this week impacted environmental justice.

Step 3: Describe the environmental conditions in terms of a community making sure to explain the link between human health and the environment in relation to the specific environmental disaster.

Step 4: , Consider 3 key factors that help to inform your analysis and understanding of the environmental disaster making sure to include the exposure pathway.