Full Description
The Fukushima Effect offers a range of scholarly perspectives on the international effect of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown four years out from the disaster. Grounded in the field of science, technology and society (STS) studies, a leading cast of international scholars from the Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the United States examine the extent and scope of the Fukushima effect. The authors each focus on one country or group of countries, and pay particular attention to national histories, debates and policy responses on nuclear power development covering such topics as safety of nuclear energy, radiation risk, nuclear waste management, development of nuclear energy, anti-nuclear protest movements, nuclear power representations, and media representations of the effect. The countries featured include well established 'nuclear nations', emergent nuclear nations and non-nuclear nations to offer a range of contrasting perspectives.
This volume will add significantly to the ongoing international debate on the Fukushima disaster and will interest academics, policy-makers, energy pundits, public interest organizations, citizens and students engaged variously with the Fukushima disaster itself, disaster management, political science, environmental/energy policy and risk, public health, sociology, public participation, civil society activism, new media, sustainability, and technology governance.
Contents
Foreword Christopher Rootes 1. The Fukushima Effect: Traversing a New Geopolitical Terrain Richard Hindmarsh and Rebecca Priestley 2. The Fukushima Effect in Japan: Reflections on Political Leadership and Local Governance Akira Nakamura and Wataru Nishimura 3. Taiwan's Civil Society in Action: Anti-nuclear Movement Pre- and Post-Fukushima Dung-sheng Chen 4. The Korean Case of Nuclear Energy Policy Pre- and Post-Fukushima Hyomin Kim 5. China's Civil Nuclear Power Development: Shifts from Government to Risk Governance? Xiang Fang 6. The Fukushima Effect on India's Science, Technology (Nuclear Energy) and Environmental Governance Anupam Jha 7. Nuclear Exceptionalism in the Former Soviet Union after Chernobyl and Fukushima Andrei Stsiapanau 8. Socio-technical Imaginations of Nuclear Waste Disposal in the UK and Finland Susan Molyneux-Hodgson and Marika Hietala 9. Germany's Energiewende After Fukushima: Nuclear Politics at the Forefront of Change Detlef Jahn and Sebastian Stephan 10. Swiss Risk Governance of Nuclear Energy after Fukushima, and Citizen Perspectives Fabienne Crettaz von Roten 11. France, the Nuclear Revival and the Post Fukushima Landscape Joseph Szarka 12. A Question of Confidence: Nuclear Waste and Public Trust in the United States after Fukushima William J. Kinsella 13. The Fukushima Effect in New Zealand: Responses to Nuclear Disasters in a "Nuclear-free" Country Rebecca Priestley 14. The Effect of the Fukushima Effect: From Strong to Weak Richard Hindmarsh and Rebecca Priestley
