Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi (eBook, ePUB)

Social, Political and Environmental Issues
Redaktion: Hindmarsh, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A timely and groundbreaking account of the disturbing landscape of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown amidst an earthquake and tsunami on Japan's NE coastline. In providing riveting insights into its background and the disaster management options taken and the political, technical and social reactions as the accident unfolded, the book critically reflects on both the implications for managing future nuclear disasters and the future of nuclear power itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135910969
• Artikelnr.: 39479074

Autorenporträt

Richard Hindmarsh is Associate Professor in the Griffith School of Environment and Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. His field is environmental politics and policy and science, technology and society. He is co-founder of the Asia-Pacific Science, Technology and Society Network. He has produced eight books including Edging towards BioUtopia (2008, U. of Western Australia press), and Genetic Suspects (co-edited with Barbara Prainsack) (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Current research includes GM crops; wind and nuclear energy; governance, and community engagement; and sustainability transitions.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Ian Lowe 1. Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: Introducing
the Terrain; Richard Hindmarsh 2. Social Shaping of Nuclear Safety: Before
and After the Disaster; Takuji Hara 3. Social Structure and Nuclear Power
Siting Problems Revealed; Kohta Juraku 4. 3/11: Megatechnology, Siting,
Place and Participation; Richard Hindmarsh 5. Environmental Infrastructures
of Emergency: The Formation of a Civic Radiation Monitoring Map during the
Fukushima Disaster; Atsuro Morita, Anders Blok and Shuhei Kimura 6.
Post-Apocalyptic Citizenship and Humanitarian Hardware; Denisa Kera, Jan
Rod and Radka Peterova 7. Envirotechnical Disaster at Fukushima: Nature,
Technology and Politics; Sara B. Pritchard 8. Nuclear Power after 3/11:
Looking Back and Thinking Ahead; Catherine Butler, Karen A. Parkhill, and
Nicholas F. Pidgeon 9. The Search for Energy Security After Fukushima
Daiichi; Jim Falk 10. The Future Is Not Nuclear: Ethical Choices for Energy
after Fukushima; Andrew Blowers 11. Nuclear Emergency Response: Atomic
Priests or an International SWAT Team?; Sonja D. Schmid 12. Fallout from
Fukushima Daiichi: An Endnote; Richard Hindmarsh