Recreating Livable Communities After Catastrophe: Managing the Recovery from Japan’s Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster of 2011
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2018-07-31
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TRIS Online Accession Number:01701690
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Edition:Year 25 Final Report
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Abstract:The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of March 11, 2011, killed more than 20,000 people; devastated hundreds of kilometers of coastline in Northeast Japan, destroying homes, businesses, and infrastructure; triggered a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Dai'ichi nuclear power station that led to long-term evacuation of all residents within a 30-km. radius of the plant; disrupted both communal life and the economy of dozens of communities; undermined the political standing of the sitting national leaders and government; and severely challenged the Japanese people’s sense of security and well-being. Building off of research begun in 2012, which first focused on the emergency response to this “triple disaster” and then on the early phases of transportation recovery in the affected region, this project extended and broadened the scope of our research on how Japan dealt with the catastrophe and its aftermath by assessing the country’s ongoing progress with restoring transportation and other critical infrastructure, as well by examining several other interrelated aspects of recovery, including the rebuilding of housing, economic revitalization, and the re-establishment of community life. In the later stages of the project, while continuing to examine tsunami- and earthquake-affected communities, the team focused much of its research on examining the unique challenges municipalities affected by the nuclear crisis faced as they sought to reconstitute in the aftermath of the event.
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