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Southeast Asians Hazes of 1997 & 2006

Southeast Asians Hazes of 1997 & 2006. Jade Scarboro Freeman Disaster project. Background Information. Tens of thousands of people were hospitalized forced the closure of schools and airports in parts of Indonesia Total cost to fix 9 billion Expanded over 3 million km of land

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Southeast Asians Hazes of 1997 & 2006

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  1. Southeast Asians Hazes of 1997 & 2006 Jade Scarboro Freeman Disaster project

  2. Background Information Tens of thousands of people were hospitalized forced the closure of schools and airports in parts of Indonesia Total cost to fix 9 billion Expanded over 3 million km of land Flares up every dry season

  3. What happened? • Direct and indirect causes: -direct: • Fire as a tool in land clearing • Fire as a weapon in land tenure or land use disputes • Accidental or escaped fires -Indirect: • Land tenure and land use allocation conflicts and competition • Forest degrading practices • Economic incentives/disincentives

  4. Continued… Plantation have been found for the causes and start of the fires. Peat fire Clean up cost is 9 billion

  5. Environmental Concept? This is relevant from class because during the discussion of air pollution, we talked about the smog over London. It was also a haze over the city causing many problems.

  6. Damage Report Short Term -people health -Regional Tourism -Industrial production loss -fishing decline Long Term -weather -Crop Productivities -accidents -loss of life

  7. Law passed? In 2002 they signed an agreement on “transboundary haze pollution No, it cant happen again because of the agreement they signed on

  8. Citation http://www.economist.com/node/8032100 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asian_haze https://www.google.com/search?q=southeast+asians+hazes+of+1997+and+2006 http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/iffn/country/id/id_32.htm http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/06/25/a-nation-fire-what-should-we-learn-19971998-haze.html

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