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Japan after 3/11
Global Perspectives on the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Meltdown
Edited by Pradyumna P. Karan and Unryu Suganuma
On March 11, 2011, an underwater earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, Japan, triggered one of the most devastating tsunamis of a generation. The aftermath was overwhelming: communities were reduced to rubble, thousands of people were missing or dead, and relief organizations struggled to reach affected areas to provide aid for survivors and victims of radiation from compromised nuclear reactors.
In Japan after 3/11, editors Pradyumna P. Karan and Unryu Suganuma assemble geographers, economists, humanists, and scientists to consider the complex economic, physical, and social impacts of this heartbreaking disaster. Historical geographers place the events of March 2011 in context, while other contributors assess the damage and recommend strategies for the long process of reclamation and rebuilding. The book also includes interviews with victims that explore the social implications of radioactive contamination and invite comparisons to the discrimination faced by survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Balancing the natural and social sciences, this timely volume offers not only a model of interdisciplinary research for scholars but also an invaluable guide to the planning and implementation of reconstruction.
In Japan after 3/11, editors Pradyumna P. Karan and Unryu Suganuma assemble geographers, economists, humanists, and scientists to consider the complex economic, physical, and social impacts of this heartbreaking disaster. Historical geographers place the events of March 2011 in context, while other contributors assess the damage and recommend strategies for the long process of reclamation and rebuilding. The book also includes interviews with victims that explore the social implications of radioactive contamination and invite comparisons to the discrimination faced by survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Balancing the natural and social sciences, this timely volume offers not only a model of interdisciplinary research for scholars but also an invaluable guide to the planning and implementation of reconstruction.
About the Authors
Pradyumna P. Karan, University Research Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, is the author or editor of many books, including Japan in the 21st Century: Environment, Economy, and Society and The Indian Ocean Tsunami: The Global Response to a Natural Disaster. Unryu Suganuma is associate professor of geography at J. F. Oberlin University in Tokyo. He is the author of Sovereign Rights and Territorial Space in Sino-Japanese Relations and coeditor of Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan.
Reviews
"This landmark book provides a clear and comprehensive account of devastation caused by the triple disasters of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear radiation that ravaged the northeastern coast of Japan on March 11, 2011.The contributors to this remarkable volume are experts in their fields, and many of them traveled to the most devastated areas to observe and document the disasters' impact on the lives of victims and on the landscape."—Bimal K. Paul, author of Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management
"This collection of essays by leading geographers and other specialists in Japan and the United States is unique for the multidimensional, ground-level perspectives it provides on the events of 3/11 and their aftermath, as well as the explicit comparisons it draws to disasters in other parts of the world."—Bruce L. Batten, co-editor of Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present
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Other Titles by Pradyumna P. Karan
Japan in the Bluegrass
edited by Pradyumna P. Karan
Nov 2021
- University Press of Kentucky
$50.00 USD
- Electronic book text
Japanese Landscapes
Cotton Mather, Pradyumna P. Karan, Shigeru Iijima
Oct 2021
- University Press of Kentucky
$50.00 USD
- Electronic book text
The Japanese City
edited by Pradyumna P. Karan, Kristin Stapleton
Oct 2021
- University Press of Kentucky
$50.00 USD
- Electronic book text
Other Titles by Unryu Suganuma
Local Environmental Movements
edited by Pradyumna P. Karan, Unryu Suganuma
Sep 2010
- University Press of Kentucky
$40.00 USD
- Hardback
$40.00 USD
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$40.00 USD
- Electronic book text
Other Titles from Asia in the New Millennium
Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy
edited by Yufan Hao, C.X. George Wei, Lowell Dittmer, with contributions by Zhang Baijia, Yufan Hao, C.X. George Wei, Jianwei Wang, Lowell Dittmer, Jia Quingguo, Baohui Zhang, Xinning Song, Quansheng Zhao, Shi Yinhong, Du Youkang, Zhido...
Dec 2021
- University Press of Kentucky
$40.00 USD
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$30.00 USD
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The Soldier Image and State-Building in Modern China, 1924-1945
Yan Xu
Feb 2019
- University Press of Kentucky
$30.00 USD
- Hardback
Power versus Law in Modern China
Qiang Fang, Xiaobing Li
Nov 2017
- University Press of Kentucky
$40.00 USD
- Hardback
$40.00 USD
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- Electronic book text
Other Titles in SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Psychological First Aid, second edition
George S. Everly, Jr. and Jeffrey M. Lating
Aug 2022
- Johns Hopkins University Press
$26.95 USD
- Electronic book text
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- Paperback / softback
The Real Disaster Is Above Ground
J. Stephen Kroll-Smith, Stephen Robert Couch
Oct 2021
- University Press of Kentucky
$45.00 USD
- Electronic book text
$20.00 USD
- Paperback / softback
Ireland's Helping Hand to Europe
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- Central European University Press
$105.00 USD
- Hardback