Lessons From Fukushima - Yuko Fujigaki Gebunden

This book is about the consequences of the Fukushima disaster in light of their technological societal political cultural and environmental origins. The magnitude of the nuclear accident is investigated in this book in the contexts of politics economy and society. The authors scrutinize the relationships between science technology and society leading to this accident. Further the authors reveal how these relationships were constructed historically. This book provides a case analysis on the Fukushima disaster in political societal economic and cultural dimensions. In addition analyses for historically grown relationships between different societal spheres mouthing into disasters are presented using examples of the Minamata disease (Mercury pollution) Itai-Itai Disease (Cadmium pollution) BSE and GMOs. With this book Yuko Fujigaki achieves to connect local and cultural peculiarities with generalized scientific information and practices in a coherent logical fashion to a comprehensive volume on a very actual topic of global significance. In light of a globally increasing energy gap this book has a distinct global relevance providing an honest account on different triggers mouthing into the nuclear disaster. This book not only gives a scientific account. It also can also contribute to prevent future disasters starting from similar vectors.