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Summary:

In Legacies of Fukushima, contributors, drawn from the realms of journalism and academia, science policy and citizen science, activism and governance, contextualize 3.11 through the lens of critical disaster studies.

Table of Contents:

• Cover
• Legacies of Fukushima
• Title
• Copyright
• 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 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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Contributors:

Cleveland, Kyle , editor

Knowles, Scott Gabriel , editor

Shineha, Ryūma, 1982- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Legacies of Fukushima [by Cleveland, K.] (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,c2021 — ISBN 9780812252989)

Related Series:

Critical studies in risk and disaster

Subjects:

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011

Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011

Nuclear power plants — Accidents — Japan — Fukushima-ken

Natural disasters — Japan — Tōhoku Region

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 14, 2021).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

TK1365.J3 L45 2021eb

ISBNs:

9780812298000 (electronic book)
0812298004 (electronic book)

OCLC Numbers:

1243539916

Other Control Numbers:

2659858 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp17009754