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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 Hind-marsh 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, Tokyo

Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi

Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi is a timely and groundbreaking account of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown amidst an earthquake and tsunami on Japan's northeast coastline on March 11, 2011. It provides riveting insights into the social and political landscape of nuclear power development in Japan, which significantly contributed to the disaster; the flawed disaster management options taken; and the political, technical and social reactions as the accident unfolded. In doing so, it critically reflects on the implications for managing future nuclear disasters, for effective and responsible regulation and good governance of controversial science and technology, or technoscience, and for the future of nuclear power itself, both in Japan and internationally.

Informed by a leading cast of international scholars in science, technology and society studies, the book is at the forefront of discussing the Fukushima Daiichi disaster at the intersection of social, environmental and energy security and good governance when such issues dominate global agendas for sustainable futures. Its powerful critique of the risks and hazards of nuclear energy alongside poor disaster management is an important counterbalance to the plans for nuclear build as being central to sustainable energy in the face of climate change, increasing extreme weather events and environmental problems, diminishing fossil fuel, peak oil and rising electricity costs.

Adding significantly to the consideration and debate of these critical issues, the book will interest academics, policy makers, energy pundits, public interest organizations, citizens and students engaged variously with Fukushima itself, disaster management, political science, environmental/energy policy and risk, public health, sociology, public participation, civil society activism, new media, sustainability, and technology governance.

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 cofounder of the Asia-Pacific Science, Technology and Society Network. He has produced eight books, including Edging Towards BioUtopia (University of Western Australia Press, 2008) and Genetic Suspects (Cambridge University Press, 2010; coedited with Barbara Prainsack). Current research topics include genetically modified crops, wind and nuclear energy, good governance, community engagement, and sustainability transitions.

Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

1 Science and the Media

Alternative Routes in Scientific Communication

Massimiano Bucchi

2 Animals, Disease and Human Society

Human-Animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Medicine

Joanna Swabe

3 Transnational Environmental Policy

The Ozone Layer

Reiner Grundmann

4 Biology and Political Science

Robert H Blank and Samuel M. Hines, Jr.

5 Technoculture and Critical Theory

In the Service of the Machine?

Simon Cooper

6 Biomedicine as Culture

Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life

Edited by Regula Valrie Burri and Joseph Dumit

7 Journalism, Science and Society

Science Communication between News and Public Relations

Edited by Martin W. Bauer and Massimiano Bucchi

8 Science Images and Popular Images of Science

Edited by Bernd Hppauf and Peter Weingart

9 Wind Power and Power Politics

International Perspectives

Edited by Peter A. Strachan, David Lal and David Toke

10 Global Public Health Vigilance

Creating a World on Alert

Lorna Weir and Eric Mykhalovskiy

11 Rethinking Disability

Bodies, Senses, and Things

Michael Schillmeier

12 Biometrics

Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics

Joseph Pugliese

13 Wired and Mobilizing

Social Movements, New Technology, and Electoral Politics

Victoria Carty

14 The Politics of Bioethics

Alan Petersen

15 The Culture of Science

How the Public Relates to Science across the Globe

Edited by Martin W. Bauer, Rajesh Shukla and Nick Allum

16 Internet and Surveillance

The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media

Edited by Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtslund and Marisol Sandoval

17 The Good Life in a Technological Age

Edited by Philip Brey, Adam Briggle and Edward Spence

18 The Social Life of Nanotechnology

Edited by Barbara Herr Harthorn and John W. Mohr

19 Video Surveillance and Social Control in a Comparative Perspective

Edited by Fredrika Bjrklund and Ola Svenonius

20 The Digital Evolution of an American Identity

C. Waite

21 Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi

Social, Political and Environmental Issues

Edited by Richard Hindmarsh

Nuclear Disaster at
Fukushima Daiichi

Social, Political and Environmental Issues

Edited by Richard Hindmarsh

First published 2013
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Simultaneously published in the UK
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