Human security and Japan's triple disaster : responding to the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis /

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TextDescription: viii, 216 pagesISBN:

9781138013131 (hardback)

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HV600 .T64 H86 2014

Summary: "This book applies the concept of human security to the specific case of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident that struck Japan on 11 March 2011, which has come to be known as Japan's 'triple disaster'. This left more than 15,000 people dead, displaced more than 300,000, and was the most expensive natural disaster in recorded history. This volume illustrates the different forms of human insecurity that appeared and were exacerbated, as well as more encouraging signs of human empowerment and reform that have also occurred. The book develops the human security approach not only through extending it to natural disasters, but also by demonstrating how it can be developed by adopting an interdisciplinary perspective"--

List(s) this item appears in: Integrated Emergency Management (IEM)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Books	Rabdan Academy General Stacks	Non-fiction	HV600 .T64 H86 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C. 1	Available	1054048
Books	Rabdan Academy General Stacks	Non-fiction	HV600 .T64 H86 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C. 2	Available	1054049

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"This book applies the concept of human security to the specific case of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident that struck Japan on 11 March 2011, which has come to be known as Japan's 'triple disaster'. This left more than 15,000 people dead, displaced more than 300,000, and was the most expensive natural disaster in recorded history. This volume illustrates the different forms of human insecurity that appeared and were exacerbated, as well as more encouraging signs of human empowerment and reform that have also occurred. The book develops the human security approach not only through extending it to natural disasters, but also by demonstrating how it can be developed by adopting an interdisciplinary perspective"--

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