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.…mehr
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.
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.
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List of figures List of tables List of contributors Preface and acknowledgments Map of Fukushima Prefecture Introduction Mitsuo Yamakawa and Daisaku Yamamoto 1 Five principles for the reconstruction of the nuclear disaster-afflicted areas Mitsuo Yamakawa and Katsumi Nakai 2 International efforts to support disaster risk reduction Satoru Mimura 3 Challenges of just rebuilding: case studies of Iitate Village and Tomioka Town, Fukushima Prefecture Akihiko Sato 4 Why do local residents continue to use potentially contaminated stream water after the nuclear accident? A case study of Kawauchi Village, Fukushima Takehito Noda 5 Securing mobility in the nuclear disaster-afflicted region: a case study of Minami-Soma Itsuki Yoshida 6 Toward effective radioactivity countermeasures for agricultural products Hideki Ishii 7 Resilience of local food systems to the Fukushima nuclear disaster: a case study of the Fukushima Soybean Project Takashi Norito 8 Impacts of the disaster and future tasks for the recovery of small and medium-sized manufacturing firms in Fukushima Toshio Hatsuzawa 9 Bringing businesses back, bringing residents back: efforts and challenges to restore commerce in formerly evacuated areas Akira Takagi and Masayuki Seto 10 Renewable-energy policies and economic revitalization in Fukushima: issues and prospects Yoshio Ohira 11 Beyond developmental reconstruction in post-Fukushima Japan Daisaku Yamamoto and Mitsuo Yamakawa Index
List of figures List of tables List of contributors Preface and acknowledgments Map of Fukushima Prefecture Introduction Mitsuo Yamakawa and Daisaku Yamamoto 1 Five principles for the reconstruction of the nuclear disaster-afflicted areas Mitsuo Yamakawa and Katsumi Nakai 2 International efforts to support disaster risk reduction Satoru Mimura 3 Challenges of just rebuilding: case studies of Iitate Village and Tomioka Town, Fukushima Prefecture Akihiko Sato 4 Why do local residents continue to use potentially contaminated stream water after the nuclear accident? A case study of Kawauchi Village, Fukushima Takehito Noda 5 Securing mobility in the nuclear disaster-afflicted region: a case study of Minami-Soma Itsuki Yoshida 6 Toward effective radioactivity countermeasures for agricultural products Hideki Ishii 7 Resilience of local food systems to the Fukushima nuclear disaster: a case study of the Fukushima Soybean Project Takashi Norito 8 Impacts of the disaster and future tasks for the recovery of small and medium-sized manufacturing firms in Fukushima Toshio Hatsuzawa 9 Bringing businesses back, bringing residents back: efforts and challenges to restore commerce in formerly evacuated areas Akira Takagi and Masayuki Seto 10 Renewable-energy policies and economic revitalization in Fukushima: issues and prospects Yoshio Ohira 11 Beyond developmental reconstruction in post-Fukushima Japan Daisaku Yamamoto and Mitsuo Yamakawa Index
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