Japans Triple Disaster - 9781032375472

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Japans Triple DisasterPursuing Justice after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Accident\nAuthor(s): Natalia Novikova, Julia Gerster, Manuela G. Hartwig\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032375472, 978-1032375472\nSynopsis\nThe authors of this volume discuss questions of disaster and justice from various interdisciplinary vantage points, including public policy, science and technology studies, law, gender, sociology and psychology, social and cultural anthropology, town planning and tourism. \n\nThe term \""natural\"" disasters is a misnomer; cataclysmic natural events that impact humans can often be anticipated and their consequences should be prevented the failure to do so is a failure of politics, policy and risk planning. Presenting research on more than a decade after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the chapters highlight not only the manifold challenges in the direct disaster re.