Legacies of Fukushima : 3.11 in Context /

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It was an unlikely convergence of events. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the largest in Japanese memory and the fourth largest recorded in world history; a tsunami that peaked at forty meters, devastating the seaboard of northeastern Japan; three reactors in meltdown at the Daiichi nuclear power plant...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bonner, Sean (Contribuidor), Brown, Azby (Contribuidor), Cleveland, Kyle (Contribuidor, Editor ), Fackler, Martin (Contribuidor), Jacobs, Robert (Contribuidor), Jobin, Paul (Contribuidor), Juraku, Kohta (Contribuidor), Kamisato, Tatsuhiro (Contribuidor), Kingston, Jeff (Contribuidor), Kinsella, William J. (Contribuidor), Knowles, Scott Gabriel (Contribuidor, Editor ), Lesavre, Başak Saraç- (Contribuidor), Lifton, Robert Jay (Contribuidor), Murillo, Luis Felipe R. (Contribuidor), Schmid, Sonja D. (Contribuidor), Shineha, Ryuma (Contribuidor, Editor ), Simms, James (Contribuidor), Suzuki, Tatsujiro (Contribuidor), Yagi, Ekou (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Colección:Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster
Temas:
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.
Natural disasters > Japan > Tōhoku Region.
Natural disasters > Japan > Tōhoku Region.
Nuclear power plants > Accidents > Japan > Fukushima-ken.
Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief.
Asian Studies.
Human Rights.
Law.
Public Policy.
Urban Studies.
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  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword. Fukushima's Special Message
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • PART I. LEARNING FROM DISASTER
  • Chapter 1. What Was Learned from 3.11
  • Chapter 2. Unfulfilled Promises: Why Structural Disasters Make It Difficult to "Learn from Disasters"
  • Chapter 3. Fukushima Radiation Inside Out
  • Chapter 4. Has Japan Learned a Lesson from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
  • Chapter 5. The Developmental State and Nuclear Power in Japan
  • PART II. PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND PUBLIC TRUST
  • Chapter 6. The Road to Fukushima: A US- Japan History
  • Chapter 7. Media Capture: The Japanese Press and Fukushima
  • Chapter 8. The Politics of Radiation Assessment in the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Chapter 8. The Politics of Radiation Assessment in the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
  • Chapter 9. Nuclear Labor, Its Invisibility, and the Dispute over Low- Dose Radiation
  • Chapter 10. Food and Water Contamination After the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
  • Chapter 11. Suffering the Effects of Scientific Evidence
  • PART III. POSSIBLE FUTURES
  • Chapter 12. Building a Community- Based Platform for Radiation Monitoring After 3.11
  • Chapter 13. The Closely Watched Case of Iitate Village: The Need for Global Communication of Local Problems
  • Chapter 14. Describing and Memorializing 3.11: Namie and Ishinomaki
  • Chapter 15. Renegotiating Nuclear Safety After Fukushima: Regulatory Dilemmas and Dialogues in the United States
  • Chapter 16. International Reactions to Fukushima
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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