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Legacies of Fukushima : 3.11 in context / edited by Kyle Cleveland, Scott Gabriel Knowles, and Ryuma Shineha.

Title
Legacies of Fukushima : 3.11 in context / edited by Kyle Cleveland, Scott Gabriel Knowles, and Ryuma Shineha.
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]

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Additional Authors
  • Cleveland, Kyle,
  • Knowles, Scott Gabriel,
  • Shineha, Ryūma, 1982-
Description
xiii, 324 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Summary
"This book is about the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan. The disaster comprised a triple punch that began with an earthquake, which caused a tsunami, which triggered a meltdown at a nuclear plant"--
Series Statement
Critical studies in risk and disaster
Uniform Title
Critical studies in risk and disaster.
Subject
  • Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011
  • Natural disasters > Tōhoku Region
  • Nuclear power plants > Accidents > Fukushima-ken
  • Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Chapter 1. What was learned from 3.11? / Scott Gabriel Knowles -- Chapter 2. Unfulfilled promises : why structural disasters make it difficult to "learn from disasters" / Kohta Juraku -- Chapter 3. Fukushima radiation insideout / Robert Jacobs -- Chapter 4. Has Japan learned a lesson from the Fukushima nuclear accident? / Tatsujiro Suzuki -- Chapter 5. The developmental state and nuclear power in Japan / Jeff Kingston -- Chapter 6. The road to Fukushima : a US-Japan history / James Simms -- Chapter 7. Media capture : the Japanese press and Fukushima / Martin Fackler -- Chapter 8. The politics of radiation assessment in the Fukushima nuclear crisis / Kyle Cleveland -- Chapter 9. Nuclear labor, its invisibility, and the dispute over low-dose radiation / Paul Jobin -- Chapter 10. Food and water contamination after the Fukushima nuclear accident / Tatsuhiro Kamisato -- Chapter 11. Suffering the effects of scientific evidence / Ekou Yagi -- Chapter 12. Building a community-based platform for radiation monitoring after 3.11 / Luis Felipe R.Murillo and Sean Bonner -- Chapter 13. The closely watched case of Iitate Village : the need for global communication of local problems / Azby Brown -- Chapter 14. Describing and memorializing 3.11 : Namie and Ishinomaki / Ryuma Shineha -- Chapter 15. Renegotiating nuclear safety after Fukushima : regulatory dilemmasand dialogues in the United States / William J. Kinsella -- Chapter 16. International reactions to Fukushima / Sonja D. Schmid and Başak Saraç-Lesavre.
ISBN
  • 9780812252989
  • 0812252985
LCCN
  • 2020051757
  • 99987407683
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries