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Tohoku Recovery
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Author : Rajib Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-10-08
Tohoku Recovery written by Rajib Shaw and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-08 with Nature categories.
The March 11 disaster in 2011, known as the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, caused extensive damage in various sectors. Through the recovery process, special lessons are being learned and applied in the affected region. This book attempts to draw lessons from different issues and sectors such as policy perspectives (both national and local), the role of international NGOs, fishing industries and other livelihoods, temporary housing, health, heritage, and lesson sharing. The book outlines the need and approach for sharing the lessons with wider communities in developing those lessons. Based on intensive field research, the book also provides some key lessons from community-based recovery in the affected regions of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures. This book has 13 chapters in two parts. The first part of the book, with seven chapters, provides a set of lessons from diverse sectors. The second part, with six chapters, provides case studies from different areas of Tohoku. Six specific issues are addressed in part 1: the role of international agencies, livelihood (namely, fisheries) recovery, temporary housing, health, heritage, and lesson sharing. Part 2 has six case studies from different areas of the Tohoku region, including Fukushima. The primary target groups for this book are students and researchers in the fields of environment, disaster risk reduction, and recovery studies. The book provides them with a good idea of the current research trends in the field and furnishes basic knowledge about these vital topics. Another target group comprises practitioners and policy makers, who will be able to apply the knowledge collected here to policy and decision-making.
Residents And Volunteers
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Author : Mary Candace Lewis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Residents And Volunteers written by Mary Candace Lewis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Communities categories.
Disasters affect millions of people worldwide each year and are increasing in frequency and severity. In post-disaster environments people from every demographic lose communities, homes, and incomes. Throughout the recovery period, old relationships are renegotiated and new relationships are formed between residents and volunteers. I propose a recovery citizenship that emerges in post-disaster settings consisting of residents and volunteers. My research seeks to understand and explain how residents and volunteers utilize this recovery citizenship to rebuild housing, communities, and sources of income. Many of these post-disaster needs (housing, community, and income) are not met for individual residents by top down organizations such as government and large non-governmental organizations. Instead, through recovery citizenship, residents and volunteers are engaging horizontally in flexible relationships to meet individual recovery needs. In 2012 and 2013, I spent four months volunteering with the small non-profit organization, It's Not Just Mud (INJM), based in Ishinomaki, Japan. INJM engages directly with residents and partners with other non-profit organizations to develop and complete projects residents want for disaster recovery, stemming from the March 2011 triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear radiation in northeast (Tohoku) Japan. Through volunteering, I was able to observe the recovery citizenship in Tohoku. Residents and volunteers each contributed according to their capabilities and successful projects included restoring fishing industries, building playgrounds, and improving the quality of life in temporary housing centers. Top down organizations, such as governments and non-governmental organizations, focus their recovery efforts based on fixed pre-disaster established missions. Top down efforts sometimes inhibit the recovery of local incomes by importing goods from outside the disaster zone and lack of decisive action in rebuilding needed infrastructure, and inhibit residents' rebuilding social connections and housing through random housing assignments that may or may not be temporary. Large organizations have a stronger voice in traditional media outlets and actively discourage individual volunteers from going to disaster recovery areas. These individual volunteers are critical to the recovery citizenship. In disaster recovery the bottom up results of recovery citizenship can ultimately result in a return to a sense of normalcy for residents and economic prosperity for the region.
The Fukushima And Tohoku Disaster
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Author : School of Societal Safety Sciences
language : en
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Release Date : 2017-10-26
The Fukushima And Tohoku Disaster written by School of Societal Safety Sciences and has been published by Butterworth-Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-26 with Science categories.
The Fukushima and Tohoku Disaster: A Review of the Five-Year Reconstruction Efforts covers the outcome of the response, five years later, to the disasters associated with the Great East Japan earthquake on March 11, 2011. The 3.11 disaster, as it is referred to in Japan, was a complex accident, the likes of which humans had never faced before. This book evaluates the actions taken during and after the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident, for which the Japanese government and people were not prepared. The book also provides recommendations for preparing and responding to disasters for those working and living in disaster-prone areas, making it a vital resource for disaster managers and government agencies. Includes guidelines for governments, communities and businesses in areas where similar complex disasters are likely to occur Provides information, propositions, suggestions and advice from the people that were involved in making suggestions to the Japanese government Features case studies (both pre- and post-disaster) of three simultaneous disasters: the Great East Japan earthquake, the resulting tsunami, and the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster
Women S Experiences Of Recovery From Alcohol Dependency In Tohoku Region Japan
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Author : Junko Kameta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Women S Experiences Of Recovery From Alcohol Dependency In Tohoku Region Japan written by Junko Kameta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Disaster Recovery
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Author : Rajib Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-10-30
Disaster Recovery written by Rajib Shaw and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-30 with Nature categories.
This book explains key lessons learned from diverse disaster situations and analyzes them within the framework of governance, education, and technology, providing a framework for disaster recovery as a development opportunity. In post-disaster situations, different types of resources are put into the affected region, varying according to technical, financial, intellectual, and community resources. If properly implemented, disaster recovery can change the context of risk-reduction approaches; if not, it can create additional hazards. In some countries, the post-disaster recovery process has even changed the socio-economic and political context of the affected region and country. The book has 21 chapters and is divided into four parts: governance and institutional issues (five chapters), education and learning issues (four chapters), technology and innovation issues (five chapters), and cross-cutting issues (five chapters). The final chapter provides an analysis of the key topics. The primary target groups for this book are students and researchers in the fields of environment, disaster risk reduction, and climate change studies. The book provides them with a good idea of the current research trends in the field and furnishes basic knowledge about these vital topics. Another target group comprises practitioners and policy makers, who will be able to apply the knowledge collected here to policy and decision making.
Recovering From Catastrophic Disaster In Asia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2017-09-18
Recovering From Catastrophic Disaster In Asia written by and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-18 with Nature categories.
Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management provides a series of cross-disciplinary approaches and methods which are exemplified by case studies from different parts of the world. Volume 18 looks at how cities and countries recover from catastrophic disasters with a specific focus on Asia.
Health Wellbeing And Community Recovery In Fukushima
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Author : Sudeepa Abeysinghe
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-06-19
Health Wellbeing And Community Recovery In Fukushima written by Sudeepa Abeysinghe and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-19 with Science categories.
This book examines the issue of disaster recovery in relation to community wellbeing and resilience, exploring the social, political, demographic and environmental changes in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The contributors reflect on the Fukushima disaster of earthquake, tsunami and radiation contamination and its impacts on society from an interdisciplinary perspective of the social sciences, critical public health, and the humanities. It focuses on four aspects, which form the sections of the work: Living with Risk and Uncertainty Vulnerability and Inequality Community Action, Engagement and Wellbeing Notes from the Field The first three sections present research on the long-term consequences of the disaster on community health and wellbeing. These findings are enhanced and developed in the ‘Notes from the Field’ section where local practitioners from medicine and community recovery reflect on their experiences in relation to concepts developed in the previous sections. This work significantly extends the literature on long-term wellbeing following disaster. The case study of Fukushima is a multi-faceted process that illuminates wider issues around post-disaster regeneration in Fukushima. This problem takes on new importance in the context of Covid-19, including direct parallels in the issues of risk measurement, social inequality, and wider wellbeing impacts, which public health disciplines can draw from.
Post Tsunami Hazard
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Author : V. Santiago-Fandiño
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-10-29
Post Tsunami Hazard written by V. Santiago-Fandiño and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-29 with Nature categories.
This monograph focuses on a variety of topics related to reconstruction and restoration in post-tsunami conditions. Aspects such as coastal engineering, early warning systems and technological approaches, urban planning and settlements relocation, socio-economic redevelopment and policy, coastal ecosystems and agricultural redevelopment as well as pollution assessment are included. The reader will benefit from the various case-studies drawn from a number of countries hit by the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean and the Great East Earthquake and Tsunami of March 2011 in Japan. This book will appeal to scientists and scholars, decision makers, students and practitioners interested in post-tsunami reconstruction and restoration processes.
Ecological Impacts Of Tsunamis On Coastal Ecosystems
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Author : Jotaro Urabe
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-10-28
Ecological Impacts Of Tsunamis On Coastal Ecosystems written by Jotaro Urabe and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-28 with Science categories.
This book focuses on the ecological impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake and resulting tsunamis, a rare and extremely large disturbance event, on various coastal ecosystems in Japan’s Tohoku area, including sub-tidal and tidal animal communities, sand dune plant communities and coastal forests. The studies presented here describe not only how species and populations in these ecosystems were disturbed by the earthquake and tsunamis, but also how the communities have responded to the event and what types of anthropogenic activities will hamper their recovery processes. In the ecological sciences, it is often argued that large disturbances are critical to shaping community structures and biodiversity in local and regional habitats. However, our understanding of these roles remains limited, simply because there have been few opportunities to examine and address the ecological impacts of large disturbance events. The scale of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake makes it one of the largest hazards in the past 1000 years. Thus, this book provides a unique opportunity to advance our understanding of the ecological impacts of large and rare disturbances and the implications of these events in the conservation and management of coastal ecosystems. Following an outline of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the book’s content is divided into two major parts. Part I reports on studies examining the ecological impacts of the tsunamis on sub-tidal and tidal animal communities, while Part II focuses on terrestrial plant communities in Japan’s coastal Tohoku area. This book will benefit all scientists interested in the ecological impacts of large disturbances on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in general, and especially those who are interested in the ecological management of coastal ecosystems and Ecosystem based Disaster Risk Reduction (EcoDRR).
Black Wave
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Author : Daniel P. Aldrich
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-07-11
Black Wave written by Daniel P. Aldrich and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-11 with Political Science categories.
Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tohoku made it through. Smaller earthquakes and tsunamis have killed far more people in nearby China and India. What accounts for the exceptionally high survival rate? And why is it that some towns and cities in the Tohoku region have built back more quickly than others? Black Wave illuminates two critical factors that had a direct influence on why survival rates varied so much across the Tohoku region following the 3/11 disasters and why the rebuilding process has also not moved in lockstep across the region. Individuals and communities with stronger networks and better governance, Daniel P. Aldrich shows, had higher survival rates and accelerated recoveries. Less-connected communities with fewer such ties faced harder recovery processes and lower survival rates. Beyond the individual and neighborhood levels of survival and recovery, the rebuilding process has varied greatly, as some towns and cities have sought to work independently on rebuilding plans, ignoring recommendations from the national government and moving quickly to institute their own visions, while others have followed the guidelines offered by Tokyo-based bureaucrats for economic development and rebuilding.