Hi everyone! My name is Lisa Zaretskaya. I would like to draw your attention to my 8^th report related to Environmental justice in Taiwan.

 I?m sorry that I posted this so late, I was a little bit busy lately (I just graduated from my junior high school).

 So, Environmental justice in Taiwan includes several problems.

1. Nuclear waste conflicts in Taiwan. This question is explored using the case of the controversy surrounding the storage of nuclear waste on Orchid Island in Taiwan, the homeland of the Yami aborigines. It provides the example that reveals that the Yami tribe and Taiwanese migrants have multiple understandings of environmental justice, explores the questions of how we might respond to these divisions and formulate environmental policy regarding nuclear waste dilemmas. Environmental pragmatism might provide a method for defusing tensions between groups of different ethical positions and could facilitate intercultural alliance-building for dealing with nuclear waste problems.

2.  Environmental Justice Foundation calls for action on human trafficking in Taiwan?s fishing industry. The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has urged the Taiwanese government, and international seafood firms and governments to help eliminate illegal practices and worker abuse in the nation?s fishing industry.  The EJF is calling for these parties to cooperate to bring about greater transparency and traceability in Taiwan?s fisheries and seafood supply chains. EJF director Steve Trent said that the rapid decay of the Taiwanese fishing industry is a result of illegal fishing facilitated by human trafficking and rights abuses.

3.    Environmental Justice and the Anti-Pollution Movement in Taiwan.  Taiwan society has witnessed the resurgence of the anti-pollution movement in Kaohsiung since the late 2000s. The expansion of the petro-chemical industries, the disclosures of the pollutions and several industrial accidents have provoked the protests. Environmental activists were able to develop a more solid and robust movement to challenge the expansion of the industrial and against the pollution. The networks between environmental campaigners, local residents including farmers and fishermen, urban citizens, and scientists have been built in various campaigns.

 So, what We Have Learned from the Taiwanese Environmental Justice Controversy. Environmental Justices in Taiwan as a discourse is not static but dynamic. Different conceptions of EJ are hybridized in local campaigns. We suggest that activists and scholars in Taiwan should prepare a set of policies, rather than a single policy, to make EJ a reality.

 Thank you for your attention. Our marathon will be continued??