Rebuilding Fukushima

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Mitsuo Yamakawa (Teikyo University, Japan.) Daisaku Yamamoto (Colgate University, USA.)

Rebuilding Fukushima

Mitsuo Yamakawa (Teikyo University, Japan.), Daisaku Yamamoto (Colgate University, USA.)

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English

Routledge
19 January 2017

Agriculture & related industries; Nuclear power industries; Nuclear issues; Natural disasters; Energy technology & engineering

Series: Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change

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.

Edited by: Mitsuo Yamakawa (Teikyo University Japan.), Daisaku Yamamoto (Colgate University, USA.)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138193796
ISBN 10: 1138193798
Series: Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 19 January 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mitsuo Yamakawa is Professor of Economic Geography at Teikyo University and Extraordinary Professor of the Fukushima Future Center for Regional Revitalization (FURE) at Fukushima University. Daisaku Yamamoto is Associate Professor of Geography and Asian Studies at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. His recent work focuses on community resilience, regional inequality, and uneven development.