Lessons From Fukushima Japanese Case Studies on Science, Technology
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, econom
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Lessons From Fukushima Japanese Case Studies on Science, Technology and Society
Lessons From Fukushima
Yuko Fujigaki Editor
Lessons From Fukushima Japanese Case Studies on Science, Technology and Society
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Editor Yuko Fujigaki Graduate School of Arts and Sciences University of Tokyo Tokyo, Tokyo Japan
ISBN 978-3-319-15352-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15353-7
ISBN 978-3-319-15353-7
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Foreword by Rethy Chhem
The destruction brought down and across the Japanese coast in March 2011 has returned to us our fear and our uncertainty. We had assumed mastery where misunderstanding and negligence lay. Above all, we have seen the world, and ourselves inside it, brought to cold reflections: How have our systems failed? How have we failed to prevent? How have we failed to imagine? The third charge, our most severe and accusatory, encompasses the whole of our missteps and malpractice towards this disaster and all before it: We may have failed to imagine. Once, requiring only a crude understanding of possibilities and outcomes, wielding technologies of risk was a seemingly simple affair. Their behaviour we assumed to be known, controlled and local. We managed the benefits and risks of these instruments with predictive laws, and thus, predictive remediation when we experience failure. The uncertainties of our technology and its scientific basis were to be uncovered through progress, never beyond the limits of investigation and never included as a feature of science. Now, in spite of this, our increasingly complex social world has challenged us to revise our entrenched narrowness of problem solving. We witness physical destruction pushing far beyo
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