Overview
- Perhaps the most comprehensive compilation of community based recovery issues in Tohoku
- Delivers a unique combination of policy and institutional perspectives, and lessons from key sectors, as well as specific case studies from community recovery perspective
- Chapters written by authors spanning a variety of roles, including academicians, practitioners and professionals in the respective field
Part of the book series: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Sector Lessons
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Lessons from Case Studies
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About this book
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.
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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.
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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 andfurnishes 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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Rajib Shaw is a Professor in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies of Kyoto University, Japan. He worked closely with the local communities, NGOs, governments and international organization, including United Nations, especially in the Asian countries. He is currently the Chair of the United Nations Asia Regional Task Force for Urban Risk Reduction, and the President of Asian University Network of Environment and Disaster Management (AUEDM). His research interests are: community based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. He has published several books in the field of disaster and environmental management. He is also the Chief Editor of Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management.Â
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tohoku Recovery
Book Subtitle: Challenges, Potentials and Future
Editors: Rajib Shaw
Series Title: Disaster Risk Reduction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55136-2
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55135-5Published: 27 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56373-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55136-2Published: 08 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2196-4106
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4114
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 193
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Environmental Management, Regional and Cultural Studies