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Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan : Response and Recovery After Japan's 3/11.
The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan plunged the country into a state of crisis. As the nation struggled to recover from a record breaking magnitude 9 earthquake and a tsunami that was as high as thirty-eight meters in some places, news trickled out that Fukushima had experienced meltdowns...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover; Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Contributors; Series editors' preface; Note to the reader; Map of the Tōhoku region; Map of distribution of nuclear power plants; Introduction: Jeff Kingston; Part I: Disaster: reports from Tōhoku; 1. Tōhoku diary: reportage on the Tōhoku disaster : Gerald L. Curtis; 2. Recovery in Tōhoku: J.F. Morris; Part II: Volunteerism, civil society and media; 3. From Kobe to Tōhoku: the potential and the peril of a volunteer infrastructure: Simon Avenell.
- 4. Civil society and the triple disasters: Revealed strengths and weaknesses: Kawato Yūko, Robert Pekkanen and Tsujinaka Yutaka5. Social media in disaster Japan: David H. Slater, Nishimura Keiko, and Love Kindstrand; 6. March 11, 2011 online: comparing Japanese newspaper websites and international news websites: Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki; Part III: Energy; 7. Networks of power: institutions and local residents in post-Tōhoku Japan: Daniel P. Aldrich; 8. Hard choices: Japan's post-Fukushima energy policy in the twenty-first century: Paul J. Scalise.
- 9. Fukushima and the political economy of power policy in Japan: Andrew DeWit, Iida Tetsunari, and Kaneko MasaruPart IV: History and politics; 10. Dealing with disaster: Peter Duus; 11. The politics of natural disaster, nuclear crisis and recovery: Jeff Kingston; 12. Friends in need: 'Operation Tomodachi' and the politics of US military disaster relief in Japan: Chris Ames and Yuiko Koguchi-Ames; Part V: Recovery and reconstruction; 13. The economic fallout: Japan's post-3/11 challenges: Kenneth Neil Cukier; 14. Ageing society, health issues and disaster: Assessing 3/11: Ōtani Junko.
- 15. Thousand-year event: Towards reconstructing communities: Riccardo Tossani16. Can post-3/11 Japan overcome twenty years of drift?: Tōgo Kazuhiko; Index.