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Human security and Japan's triple disaster : responding to the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis /

"This book applies the concept of human security to the specific case of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident that struck Japan on 11 March 2011, which has come to be known as Japan's 'triple disaster'. This left more than 15,000 people dead, displaced more than 300,000,...

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Group Author: Bacon, Paul; Hobson, Christopher Professor of political science
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Publication Dates: 2014.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Routledge humanitarian studies
Subjects:
Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 > Social aspects
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 > Social aspects
Human security > Japan
Disasters > Japan
Disaster Planning > Japan
Earthquakes > Japan
Fukushima Nuclear Accident > Japan
Security Measures > Japan
Tsunamis > Japan
Summary: "This book applies the concept of human security to the specific case of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident that struck Japan on 11 March 2011, which has come to be known as Japan's 'triple disaster'. This left more than 15,000 people dead, displaced more than 300,000, and was the most expensive natural disaster in recorded history. This volume illustrates the different forms of human insecurity that appeared and were exacerbated, as well as more encouraging signs of human empowerment and reform that have also occurred. The book develops the human security approach not only through
Carrier Form: viii, 216 pages : 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781138013131 (hardback) :
1138013137 (hardback)
Index Number: HV600 2011
CLC: X433.13
Call Number: X433.13/H918

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