Tohoku recovery : challenges, potentials and future / Rajib Shaw, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaw, Rajib, editor.

Series:

Disaster risk reduction

Disaster risk reduction : methods, approaches and practices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011.

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.

Disasters.

Tōhoku Region (Japan).

Disasters--Japan--Tōhoku Region.

Japan--Tōhoku Region.

Physical Description:

xi, 193 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo : Springer, [2015]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Tohoku recovery: reflections of some key lessons / Rajib Shaw

2. Role of international NGO in an unprecedented disaster in Japan / Takeshi Komino

3. The situation and challenges of recovery of fishing industries in Tohoku Region / Nozomi Hishida and Rajib Shaw

4. Regional comparison of temporary housing construction processes after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami / Osamu Murao

5. Lessons of health sector recovery on Tohoku disaster / Kenji Isayama and Rajib Shaw

6. Temples and shrines as temporary shelters that support evacuees: the Great East Japan Earthquake and regional heritage grounded in the local environment / Takeyuki Okubo

7. Sharing lessons from the Great East Japan and Tsunami with the World / Mikio Ishiwatari

8. Recovery after Sanriku tsunamis in 1896 and 1933, and transition of housing location before the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami / Osamu Murao

9. Identifying elements for school based recovery and disaster resilient community building in Japan / Shohei Matsuura and Rajib Shaw

10. Community recovery in tsunami-affected area: lessons from Minami-Kesennuma / Yasutaka Ueda and Rajib Shaw

11. Establishment and sustainability of emergency radio in Tohoku: implications and key lessons / Jun'ichi Hibino and Rajib Shaw

12. Recovery in Fukushima from integrated disasters / Satoru Mimura

13. Impacts of East-Japan's disaster on production of a small-medium cardboard manufacturer in Fukushima / Hideki Murakami and Akiko Yanagida.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9784431551355

4431551352

OCLC:

882189350