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- Is the first book to examine the mechanism of systemic breakdown and pathologies underlying the unsafety linking human-made disaster and natural disaster
- Explores the methodological possibilities of systems sciences for resilience reflecting public well-being from the case study of the Fukushima disaster and organizational accidents
- Prescribes decision making in disaster management and environmental policy based on a transdisciplinary approach in the interest of a global sustainable society
Part of the book series: Translational Systems Sciences (TSS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and organizational accidents and disasters in the modern era and clarifies the mechanisms involved and the significance of emerging problems, from the aging of vital infrastructure for the supply of water, gas, oil, and electricity to the breakdown of pensions, healthcare, and other social systems. The book demonstrates how we might check the underlying civilizational collapse and then explore translational systems approaches toward resilient management and policy for sustainability.
In Unsafety, the author focuses on the kinds of unnatural disasters and organizational accidents that arise as repercussions of natural hazards. Japan serves as an example, where earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons are common, with the Fukushima nuclear disaster as an outstanding case of this link between natural disasters and organizational accidents. Natural and human-made disasters happen worldwide and cause misery through lossof life; destruction of livelihoods as in agriculture, fisheries, and the manufacturing industry; and interruption of urban life. Unsafety from a disaster in one place increases uncertainty elsewhere, presenting urgent issues in all nations for individuals, organizations, regions, and the state.
The author explains that one factor in the Fukushima catastrophe, which followed in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami in 2011, was the latent deterioration and aging of systems at all levels from the physical to the social, leading through a chain reaction to unsought and unforeseen consequences. Here, the aging of the nuclear reactor system, the breakdown of safety management, and inappropriate instructions from the regulatory authorities combined to create the three-fold disaster, in which technological, organizational, and governmental dysfunction have been diagnosed as reflecting a “systems pathology” infecting all levels.
Authors and Affiliations
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Kansai University, Kyoto, Japan
Shigeo Atsuji
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Unsafety
Book Subtitle: Disaster Management, Organizational Accidents, and Crisis Sciences for Sustainability
Authors: Shigeo Atsuji
Series Title: Translational Systems Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55924-5
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55922-1Published: 22 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56728-8Published: 29 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55924-5Published: 15 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2197-8832
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8840
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 232
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Environmental Economics