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Complications Of The Climate Change Narrative Within The Lives Of Climate Refugees, Raphaella Mascia Jul 2020

Complications Of The Climate Change Narrative Within The Lives Of Climate Refugees, Raphaella Mascia

Department of Environmental Studies Student Scholarship

With projections of rapidly increasing numbers of climate refugees in the next decades, the discourse surrounding climate refugees becomes ever more pertinent within the field of sustainable development and the public sphere. I offer an alternative analysis of the processes which surround “knowing” and “defining” climate refugees by employing an interpretive framework which disseminates the term “narrative” according to Jean François Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. In the discourse surrounding climate refugees, two main narratives interact with each other: the dominant climate change narrative and the individual narratives of climate refugees themselves. I contend that the …


Data And Industrial Stormwater General Permit Benchmarks; What We Know, Deanna Seaman, Anita Fichthorn Apr 2018

Data And Industrial Stormwater General Permit Benchmarks; What We Know, Deanna Seaman, Anita Fichthorn

Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference

The Port of Tacoma and the Northwest Seaport Alliance are subject to three types of general stormwater management permits. In our quest for improving the water quality of the discharges from our properties, we have collected a large amount of water quality data. We use that data to inform source control and treatment technologies we deploy on our sites. We also share our data and results with tenants to help inform them of their source control and treatment choices based on the actual stormwater chemistry generated by site activities. We also use the data to customize treatment media recipes.


Flooding In The Media, Jeremy Wheeler Jul 2015

Flooding In The Media, Jeremy Wheeler

July 24, 2015: Communicating Frequent Flooding

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