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The Aftermath of the 2011 east Japan earthquake and tsunami: living among the rubble

ISBN: 9781498542517 ;ISBN: 1498542514 ;EISBN: 9781498542524 ;EISBN: 1498542522 ;OCLC: 962450467 ;LCCallNum: HV600 2011 .T64 T357 2016

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Title:
The Aftermath of the 2011 east Japan earthquake and tsunami: living among the rubble
Author: Takezawa, Shōichirō ; Barton, Polly
Subjects: Chosen Kogei Kenkyukai ; Community Participation ; Disaster Planning ; Disaster relief ; Disaster relief. (OCoLC)fst00894731 ; Earthquakes ; Earthquakes. (OCoLC)fst00900899 ; Effect of environment on ; Effect of environment on. (OCoLC)fst00962843 ; HISTORY / Asia / Japan ; Human beings ; Japan ; Naturkatastrophe ; organization & administration ; Otsuchi-cho ; Otsuchi-cho (Japan) ; Otsuchi-cho. (OCoLC)fst01212155 ; Relief Work ; Social aspects ; Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01354981 ; Social conditions ; Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811 ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ; Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami (Japan : 2011) (OCoLC)fst01765297 ; Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 ; Tohoku Region. (OCoLC)fst01240193 ; Tsunamis ; Tsunamis. (OCoLC)fst01158379
Description: An insightful study in disaster anthropology, this book takes as its focus the fishing town of Otsuchi in Japan’s Iwate Prefecture, one of the worst damaged areas in the mammoth 2011 tsunami. Here, 1281 of the pre-tsunami population of 15000 were killed and 60% of houses destroyed. To make matters worse, the town’s administrative organs were completely obliterated, and fire ravaged the downtown area for three days, blocking external rescue attempts. Complete with vivid and detailed witness testimony collected by the author, the book traces the course of eighteen months from the day of the disaster, through the subsequent months of community life in the evacuation centers, onto the struggles between the citizens and local governments in formulating reconstruction plans. It particularly addresses community interactions within the post-disaster context, assessing the locals’ varying degrees of success in organizing emergency committees to deal with such tasks as clearing rubble, hunting down food and obtaining fuel, and inquiring into the sociological reasons for these differences. It also casts new light on administrative failings that significantly augmented the loss of human lives in the disaster, and are threatening to bring further damage through insistence on reconstruction centered on enormous sea walls, against local citizens’ wishes.
Publisher: Blue Ridge Summit: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
Creation Date: 2016
Format: 231
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 9781498542517
ISBN: 1498542514
EISBN: 9781498542524
EISBN: 1498542522
OCLC: 962450467
LCCallNum: HV600 2011 .T64 T357 2016
Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete

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The Aftermath of the 2011 east Japan earthquake and tsunami: living among the rubble

ISBN: 9781498542517 ;ISBN: 1498542514 ;EISBN: 9781498542524 ;EISBN: 1498542522 ;OCLC: 962450467 ;LCCallNum: HV600 2011 .T64 T357 2016

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