| Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan's 3/11 Disasters Contributor(s): Aldrich, Daniel P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 022663826X ISBN-13: 9780226638263 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Disasters & Disaster Relief - Political Science | World - Asian - Political Science | Comparative Politics |
| Dewey: 363.349 |
| LCCN: 2018052337 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tōhoku made it through. Smaller earthquakes and tsunamis have killed far more people in nearby China and India. What accounts for the exceptionally high survival rate? And why is it that some towns and cities in the Tōhoku region have built back more quickly than others? Black Wave illuminates two critical factors that had a direct influence on why survival rates varied so much across the Tōhoku region following the 3/11 disasters and why the rebuilding process has also not moved in lockstep across the region. Individuals and communities with stronger networks and better governance, Daniel P. Aldrich shows, had higher survival rates and accelerated recoveries. Less-connected communities with fewer such ties faced harder recovery processes and lower survival rates. Beyond the individual and neighborhood levels of survival and recovery, the rebuilding process has varied greatly, as some towns and cities have sought to work independently on rebuilding plans, ignoring recommendations from the national government and moving quickly to institute their own visions, while others have followed the guidelines offered by Tokyo-based bureaucrats for economic development and rebuilding. |
Contributor Bio(s): Aldrich, Daniel P.: - Daniel P. Aldrich is director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program and professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University. He is the author, most recently, of Building Resilience, has received three Fulbright Fellowships and an Abe Fellowship, and has worked as an AAAS Science and Technology Fellow at the United States Agency for International Development. |