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This book examines the issue of disaster recovery in relation to
community wellbeing and resilience, exploring the social,
political, demographic and environmental changes in the wake of the
2011 Fukushima disaster. The contributors reflect on the Fukushima
disaster of earthquake, tsunami and radiation contamination and its
impacts on society from an interdisciplinary perspective of the
social sciences, critical public health, and the humanities. It
focuses on four aspects, which form the sections of the work:
Living with Risk and Uncertainty Vulnerability and Inequality
Community Action, Engagement and Wellbeing Notes from the Field The
first three sections present research on the long-term consequences
of the disaster on community health and wellbeing. These findings
are enhanced and developed in the 'Notes from the Field' section
where local practitioners from medicine and community recovery
reflect on their experiences in relation to concepts developed in
the previous sections. This work significantly extends the
literature on long-term wellbeing following disaster. The case
study of Fukushima is a multi-faceted process that illuminates
wider issues around post-disaster regeneration in Fukushima. This
problem takes on new importance in the context of Covid-19,
including direct parallels in the issues of risk measurement,
social inequality, and wider wellbeing impacts, which public health
disciplines can draw from.
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Disasters are an
increasingly common and complex combination of environmental,
social and cultural factors. Yet existing response frameworks and
emergency plans tend to homogenise affected populations as
'victims', overlooking the distinctive experience, capacities and
skills of children and young people. Drawing on participatory
research with more than 550 children internationally, this book
argues for a radical transformation in children's roles and voices
in disasters. It shows practitioners, policy-makers and researchers
how more child-centred disaster management, that recognises
children's capacity to enhance disaster resilience, actually
benefits at-risk communities as a whole.
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