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Rebuilding Fukushima
Title
Rebuilding Fukushima / edited by Mitsuo Yamakawa and Daisaku Yamamoto.
ISBN
1315639149
131727315X
9781315639147
9781317273158
1138193798
9781138193796
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 187 pages)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Five years after the one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Fukushima now only occasionally headlines national and international media. However, the disaster is far from over, as evidenced by a hundred thousand people from Fukushima still in the state of evacuation, rising levels of radiation in streams and rivers, and failing attempts to control the leakage of radioactive materials at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Despite these dismal conditions, efforts to recover and rebuild livelihoods in the afflicted regions of Fukushima did start immediately after the outset of the accident. Rebuilding Fukushima gives an account of how citizens, local governments, and businesses responded to and coped with the crisis of Fukushima. It addresses principles to guide reconstruction and international policy environments in which the current disaster is situated. It explores how reconstruction is articulated and experienced at different spatial scales, ranging from individuals to communities and municipalities, and details recovery efforts, achievements, and challenges in the realms of public transportation, agriculture and food production, manufacturing industries, retail sectors, and renewable-energy industries. This book also critically investigates the nature of the current reconstruction policy schemes, and seeks to articulate what may be required in order to achieve more sustainable and equitable (re)development in afflicted regions and other nuclear host regions. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and local surveys, this volume is one of the first books in English that captures the knowledge and insights of native Japanese social scientists who dealt with the complexities of nuclear disaster on a day-to-day basis. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of disaster-management studies and nuclear policy.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Rebuilding Fukushima. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
Routledge studies in hazards, disaster risk, and climate change
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Five principles for the reconstruction of the nuclear disaster afflicted areas / Mitsuo Yamakawa and Katsumi Nakai
International efforts to support disaster risk reduction / Satoru Mimura
Challenges of just rebuilding : case studies of Iitate village and Tomioka town, Fukushima Prefecture / Akihiko Sato
Why do local residents continue to use potentially contaminated surface water after the nuclear accident? / Takehiko Noda
Securing mobility in the nuclear disaster afflicted region : a case study of Minami-Soma / Itsuki Yoshida
Toward effective radioactivity countermeasures for agricultural products / Hideki Ishii
Resilience of local food systems to the Fukushima nuclear disaster : a case study of the Fukushima Soybean Project / Takashi Norito
Impacts of the disaster and future tasks for the recovery of small and medium-sized manufacturing firms in Fukushima / Toshio Hatsuzawa
Bringing businesses back, bringing residents back : efforts and challenges to restore commerce in formerly evacuated areas / Akira Takagi and Masayuki Seto
Renewable energy policies and economic revitalization in Fukushima : issues and prospects / Yoshio Ohira
Beyond developmental reconstruction in post-Fukushima Japan / Daisaku Yamamoto and Mitsuo Yamakawa.
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