The Fukushima and Tohoku Disaster: A Review of the Five-Year Reconstruction Efforts

The Fukushima and Tohoku Disaster: A Review of the Five-Year Reconstruction Efforts covers the outcome of the response, five years later, to the disasters associated with the Great East Japan earthquake on March 11, 2011. The 3.11 disaster, as it is referred to in Japan, was a complex accident, the likes of which humans had never faced before. This book evaluates the actions taken during and after the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident, for which the Japanese government and people were not prepared. The book also provides recommendations for preparing and responding to disasters for those working and living in disaster-prone areas, making it a vital resource for disaster managers and government agencies. Includes guidelines for governments, communities and businesses in areas where similar complex disasters are likely to occurProvides information, propositions, suggestions and advice from the people that were involved in making suggestions to the Japanese governmentFeatures case studies (both pre- and post-disaster) of three simultaneous disasters: the Great East Japan earthquake, the resulting tsunami, and the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster INDICE: 1 The Great East Japan Earthquake, a Huge Disaster1.1 Trouble with policies in recovery and reconstruction1.1.1 Problems in response at the local community level1.1.2 Problems in response at the prefecture level1.1.3 Problems in response by the central government1.1.4 Causes of delays in incomplete recovery and reconstruction projects1.1.4.1 Did not learn from past lessons1.1.4.2 There were no wide-area collaboration1.1.4.3 Reconstruction Charter was incomplete1.1.4.4 Actions after the disaster and emergency responses are not reviewed1.2 Quick overview of the 3.11 tsunami generation mechanism1.3 Tsunami preparation before and after the 3.11 disaster1.3.1 Tsunami evacuation warnings and advices1.3.2 Tsunami levee design before the quake1.3.3 Level-1 (L1) tsunami and Level-2 (L2) tsunami1.3.4 Problems with constructing tsunami levee1.4 Troubles in the efforts of revitalizing local communities1.4.1 Lack of coordination from the start1.4.2 A case study of Rikuzen Takata pine field1.4.3 House rebuilding out-of-sync1.5 Promoting disaster mitigation policies1.5.1 Newly developed disaster mitigation policies1.5.2 The worst disaster scenario? and disaster prevention and mitigation in themainstream?1.5.3 Disasters at their new stage1.6 Disaster resilience and homeland reinforcement1.6.1 Pictures of new disasters to plan against with Homeland Grand Design 2050and National Spatial Planning1.6.2 Disaster resilience1.6.2.1 Timeline1.6.2.2 After Action Review (AAR)

• ISBN: 978-0-12-814078-9
• Editorial: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 500
• Fecha Publicación: 27/10/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés