Unravelling the Fukushima Disaster

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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The Fukushima disaster continues to appear in national newspapers when there is another leakage of radiation-contaminated water, evacuation designations are changed, or major compensation issues arise and so remains far from over. However, after five years, attention and research towards the disaster seems to have waned despite the extent and significance of the disaster that remains. The aftermath of Fukushima exposed a number of shortcomings in nuclear energy policy and disaster preparedness. This book gives an account of the municipal responses, citizen’s responses, and coping attempts, before, during, and after the Fukushima crisis. It focuses on the background of the Fukushima disaster, from the Tohoku earthquake to diffusion on radioactive material and risk miscommunication. It explores the processes and politics of radiation contamination, and the conditions and challenges that the disaster evacuees have faced, reflecting on the evacuation process, evacuation zoning, and hope in a post-Fukushima environment. The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of disaster management studies and nuclear policy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-06-15
Mått:156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt:360 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
Antal sidor:194
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138624207

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Mitsuo Yamakawa is Professor of Economic Geography at Teikyo University and Extraordinary Professor of Fukushima Future Center for Regional Revitalization (FURE) at Fukushima University. Daisaku Yamamoto is Associate Professor of Geography and Asian Studies at Colgate University, New York, USA.

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List of figures List of tables List of contributors Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Mitsuo Yamakawa, Katsumi Nakai, and Daisaku Yamamoto1 Shaky ground: the geophysical dynamics and sustained seismicity of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Yosuke Nakamura2 Outline of an invisible disaster: physio-spatial processes and the diffusion and deposition of radioactive materials from the Fukushima nuclear accident Kencho Kawatsu , Kenji Ohse, and Kyo Kitayama3 Place stigmatization through geographic miscommunication: fallout of the Fukushima nuclear accident Takashi Oda4 Living in suspension: conditions and prospects of evacuees from the eight municipalities of Futaba District Mitsuo Yamakawa5 Displacement and hope after adversity: narratives of evacuees following the Fukushima nuclear accident Naoko Horikawa6 How safe is safe enough? The politics of decontamination in Fukushima David W. Edgington7 Decontamination-intensive reconstruction policy in Fukushima under governmental budget constraint Noritsugu Fujimoto8 Living with contamination: alternative perspectives and lessons from the Marshall Islands Sasha Davis and Jessica Hayes–Conroy9 Radioactive contamination of forest commons: impairment of minor subsistence practices as an overlooked obstacle to recovery in the evacuated areas Hiroyuki Kaneko10 Refusing facile conclusions and continuing to tackle an aggregating disaster Mitsuo Yamakawa and Daisaku YamamotoIndex