Introduction
Michael J. Kennish in Ecology of Estuaries Physical and Chemical Aspects, 2019
Clearly, it is difficult to reconcile today many of the conflicting demands placed on estuaries because of diverging economic, political, and social philosophies. Baseline data acquisition on estuarine environments has been accelerated, therefore, in an attempt to identify, ameliorate, and solve problems associated with their use. Some anthropogenic problems which potentially impact aquatic communities in estuaries include the following: Alteration of estuarine topography via dredging for navigation purposes, as well as dredge-spoil disposal.6Input of industrial and domestic wastes.7Pollution effects attributable to oil spillages.8Elevated rates of freshwater discharges and sediment load from rivers associated with deforestation, paving, and building operations on land.6Effects of water abstraction and flood-prevention schemes.9Reclamation of wetlands habitat.6The stabilization of shorelines and landfilling (bulkheads and riprap).
General Survey of Geomedicine
Jul Låg in Geomedicine, 2017
The future food supply of mankind has been a basis for anxious discussions. The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) has provided a lot of statistics in this connection. Modern technology has made it possible to increase food production quite rapidly, but many of the reclamation enterprises have had important biological consequences. Every year large areas, especially of forest and grassland, are cultivated for agriculture (see, e.g., Reference 48). At the same time, earlier cultivated land is abandoned due to soil erosion and spreading of towns. Intensive cultivation by irrigation, heavy fertilization, and pesticides can pollute the surroundings. A considerable reduction in the rapid growth of world population is needed if the food supply is not to turn into a catastrophic situation within some decades.
The Patriotic Health Movement and China’s Socialist Reconstruction
Liping Bu, Ka-che Yip in Public Health and National Reconstruction in Post-War Asia, 2014
As in the anti-TB campaign, a major effort of Chinese anti-malaria campaign was to educate the public about malaria and the methods to prevent it. Visual materials, such as health posters, became an important educational tool. They depicted the cause, the symptoms, the preventive methods and curative treatment of the disease. An anti-malaria poster generally had two major components: (1) illustrations of scientific information of the disease, and (2) methods of preventing the disease. Scientific knowledge of the disease included information about the mosquito and how it spread malaria from the sick to the healthy. Methods of prevention focused on two types. One was to clean up the sources and environment that produced mosquitoes, such as standing water, by covering water jars, filling up shallow ponds and ditches, pulling out weeds and raising fish to feed on mosquito larvae. These activities involved the improvement of the environment, which were incorporated in land reclamation and irrigation construction for agricultural production. The other method was to kill and fend off mosquitoes by using bed-nets, door and window screens, spraying DDT and the traditional method of burning mosquito repellent incense. The anti-malaria messages were easy to understand and the images realistic to practice in real life. The health information promoted in the campaign directly influenced and shaped the health behavior of the people when they voluntarily carried out the preventive work of spraying insecticide to kill mosquitoes and using bed-nets.
Notes on growing love: Cherríe Moraga’s “If,” a world-making incantation conjuring collective consciousness through Chicana lesbian po(i)esis
Published in Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2023
In The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherríe Moraga, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano engages an extended conversation with Cherríe Moraga’s writing. Yarbro-Bejarano considers the ways Moraga’s work elucidates how racialized desire shapes the political landscape.11 She reads in Moraga’s writing the many ways she carries out the liberatory project of making space, place, and lexicon for Chicana lesbian desire as a political intervention. Yarbro-Bejarano references Moraga’s textual “centrality of sex” alongside discussion or representation of the body, the spiritual, and the political.12 “Moraga’s insistence on taking sexuality seriously as a category of analysis,” writes Yarbro-Bejarano, has made us aware of the need to reclaim our passion…to interrogate what moves us deeply…to identify where and how we experience our pleasure as well as our pain, and to envision the possibility of joy.”13 Indeed, Moraga’s writing has re-made the very context in which we imagine ourselves as Chicana lesbians. It has given us an embodied lexicon of Chicana lesbian sex and intimacy through which we reclaim epistemologies and ontologies denied/dismissed by colonial mindscapes. This essay considers what is reclaimed as well as what is engendered through the reclamation.
Creative Destruction and Transformation in Art and Therapy: Reframing, Reforming, Reclaiming
Published in Art Therapy, 2022
Mindy Jacobson-Levy, Gretchen M. Miller
Reclamation is to take ownership of, retrieve, or return to something that was once lost or forgotten. Reclaiming can also include an intentional commitment to nurturing, tending to, and advancing this newfound and unearthed discovery. Artists have historically used creative expression to reclaim and assert personal, societal, environmental, and cultural narratives (Douglas & Simien, 2017; Figueroa, 2018; National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2021; San Francisco Center for the Book, 2021). Reclamation through art embraces, incorporates, and gives birth to new visual voices that have been deconstructed, reconstructed, and activated through reframing and reforming processes (Matott & Miller, 2020). The therapeutic role of reclaiming can include the regulation of emotional states (Greenberg, 2017), identity reclamation (Godrej, 2011; Underwood, 2020), recovery management, and radical acceptance (Masino Drass, 2015). Altered books may create distinct opportunities for the maker to take back, add to, or change missing or omitted experiences and expectations. Through transforming the book’s contents with new images and elements, the process empowers re-narration of an existing story, claiming of the self, or taking stock of attested viewpoints (Chilton, 2007; Meisinger, 2016). For example, family therapist Ron Huxley (2017) and a group of therapist contributors created an altered book from an old American Psychological Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) to reclaim the pervasive practice and narrative of psychopathology labeling in therapy work.
Opioid use in indigenous populations: indigenous perspectives and directions in culturally responsive care
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 2022
In part, opioid use disorders have experienced increased attention because they have plagued white2We lowercase the word ‘white’ when referring to racial, ethnic, or cultural terms because white people generally have different histories and cultures than Indigenous people, and do not have a similar experience of being discriminated against because of skin color. This is part of the ongoing project of reclamation for Indigenous people. communities. This has led to the development of policy and programming that disproportionately services this population (Hansen & Netherland, 2016), and has caused disparities in effective treatment protocols for nonwhite opioid users who benefit most from treatment that is community-centered and culturally responsive (Lau, 2006). Because individuals who belong to racial and ethnic groups that have been minoritized have experienced increasing rates of opioid use disorder and death (Hedegaard et al., 2021), there is a need to invest resources in interventions that are developed and rooted in these communities. For Indigenous groups specifically, culturally responsive treatment is not just preferable–it is necessary to center experiences of historical trauma, decolonize traditional treatment regimens, and allow tribal sovereignty in addressing the needs of their specific communities.
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