The Fukushima Effect
A New Geopolitical Terrain
- 312 pages
- English
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The Fukushima Effect
A New Geopolitical Terrain
About this book
The Fukushima Effect offers a range of scholarly perspectives on the international effect of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown four years out from the disaster. Grounded in the field of science, technology and society (STS) studies, a leading cast of international scholars from the Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the United States examine the extent and scope of the Fukushima effect. The authors each focus on one country or group of countries, and pay particular attention to national histories, debates and policy responses on nuclear power development covering such topics as safety of nuclear energy, radiation risk, nuclear waste management, development of nuclear energy, anti-nuclear protest movements, nuclear power representations, and media representations of the effect. The countries featured include well established 'nuclear nations', emergent nuclear nations and non-nuclear nations to offer a range of contrasting perspectives.
This volume will add significantly to the ongoing international debate on the Fukushima disaster and will interest academics, policy-makers, energy pundits, public interest organizations, citizens and students engaged variously with the Fukushima disaster itself, disaster management, political science, environmental/energy policy and risk, public health, sociology, public participation, civil society activism, new media, sustainability, and technology governance.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1 The Fukushima Effect: Traversing a New Geopolitical Terrain
- 2 The Fukushima Effect in Japan: Reflections on Political Leadership and Local Governance
- 3 Taiwan’s Civil Society in Action: Anti-nuclear Movements Pre- and Post-Fukushima
- 4 The Korean Case of Nuclear Energy Policy Pre- and Post-Fukushima
- 5 China’s Civil Nuclear Power Development: Shifts from Government to Risk Governance?
- 6 The Fukushima Effect on India’s Science, Technology (Nuclear Energy), and Environmental Governance
- 7 Nuclear Exceptionalism in the Former Soviet Union after Chernobyl and Fukushima
- 8 Socio-technical Imaginations of Nuclear Waste Disposal in UK and Finland
- 9 Germany’s Energiewende after Fukushima : Nuclear Politics at the Forefront of Change
- 10 Swiss Risk Governance of Nuclear Energy after Fukushima, and Citizen Perspectives
- 11 France, the Nuclear Revival and the Post-Fukushima Landscape
- 12 A Question of Confidence: Nuclear Waste and Public Trust in the United States after Fukushima
- 13 The Fukushima Effect in New Zealand: A Historical Perspective from a “Nuclear-Free” Country
- 14 The Effect of the Fukushima Effect: From Strong to Weak
- List of Contributors
- Index