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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mitsuo Yamakawa (Teikyo University, Japan.) , Daisaku Yamamoto (Colgate University, USA.)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.520kg ISBN: 9781138193819ISBN 10: 113819381 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 25 October 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of figures List of tables List of contributors Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Mitsuo Yamakawa, Katsumi Nakai, and Daisaku Yamamoto 1 Shaky ground: the geophysical dynamics and sustained seismicity of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Yosuke Nakamura 2 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 Kitayama 3 Place stigmatization through geographic miscommunication: fallout of the Fukushima nuclear accident Takashi Oda 4 Living in suspension: conditions and prospects of evacuees from the eight municipalities of Futaba District Mitsuo Yamakawa 5 Displacement and hope after adversity: narratives of evacuees following the Fukushima nuclear accident Naoko Horikawa 6 How safe is safe enough? The politics of decontamination in Fukushima David W. Edgington 7 Decontamination-intensive reconstruction policy in Fukushima under governmental budget constraint Noritsugu Fujimoto 8 Living with contamination: alternative perspectives and lessons from the Marshall Islands Sasha Davis and Jessica Hayes–Conroy 9 Radioactive contamination of forest commons: impairment of minor subsistence practices as an overlooked obstacle to recovery in the evacuated areas Hiroyuki Kaneko 10 Refusing facile conclusions and continuing to tackle an aggregating disaster Mitsuo Yamakawa and Daisaku Yamamoto IndexReviewsAuthor InformationMitsuo 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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