1st Edition
Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi Social, Political and Environmental Issues
Foreword; Ian Lowe 1. Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: Introducing the Terrain; Richard Hindmarsh 2. Social Shaping of Nuclear Safety: Before and After the Disaster; Takuji Hara 3. Social Structure and Nuclear Power Siting Problems Revealed; Kohta Juraku 4. 3/11: Megatechnology, Siting, Place and Participation; Richard Hindmarsh 5. Environmental Infrastructures of Emergency: The Formation of a Civic Radiation Monitoring Map during the Fukushima Disaster; Atsuro Morita, Anders Blok and Shuhei Kimura 6. Post-Apocalyptic Citizenship and Humanitarian Hardware; Denisa Kera, Jan Rod and Radka Peterova 7. Envirotechnical Disaster at Fukushima: Nature, Technology and Politics; Sara B. Pritchard 8. Nuclear Power after 3/11: Looking Back and Thinking Ahead; Catherine Butler, Karen A. Parkhill, and Nicholas F. Pidgeon 9. The Search for Energy Security After Fukushima Daiichi; Jim Falk 10. The Future Is Not Nuclear: Ethical Choices for Energy after Fukushima; Andrew Blowers 11. Nuclear Emergency Response: Atomic Priests or an International SWAT Team?; Sonja D. Schmid 12. Fallout from Fukushima Daiichi: An Endnote; Richard Hindmarsh
Biography
Richard Hindmarsh is Associate Professor in the Griffith School of Environment and Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. His field is environmental politics and policy and science, technology and society. He is co-founder of the Asia-Pacific Science, Technology and Society Network. He has produced eight books including Edging towards BioUtopia (2008, U. of Western Australia press), and Genetic Suspects (co-edited with Barbara Prainsack) (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Current research includes GM crops; wind and nuclear energy; governance, and community engagement; and sustainability transitions.
"Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi is one of the first and most comprehensive social scientific analyses of the natural and human-made disaster that is Fukushima Daiichi. It brings together some of world’s leading thinkers on science, technology and society, risk analysis, energy policy as well as indigenous Japanese scholars offering an internal critical account of the reasons, actors, dynamics and implications of this disaster. This is a major scholarly contribution to an extremely pressing and urgent issue and Hindmarsh is to be congratulated in bringing together such an impressive array of scholarship in such a short space of time."
—John Barry, Queens University, Belfast
"Richard Hindmarsh has added a new dimension to the global policy debate over the safety of nuclear energy. The twelve chapters in the book provide rich sources of information and conceptual agendas. The book will become a ‘must’ for those who want to partake in this ongoing discussion."
—Akira Nakamura, Meiji University
