Animals and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Paperback / softback
by MAYUMI ITOH
Part of the The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series series
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This book is the first comprehensive, in-depth English language study of the animals that were left behind in the exclusion zone in the wake of the nuclear meltdown of three of the four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in March 2011, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake of magnitude 9.0.The Japanese government designated an area of 20-kilometer radius from the nuclear power station as an exclusion zone and evacuated one hundred thousand residents, but left companion animals and livestock animals behind in the radioactive area.
Consequently, about 90 percent of the animals in the exclusion zone died.
This book juxtaposes policies of the Japanese government toward the animals in Fukushima with the actions of grassroots volunteer animal rescue groups that filled the void of the government.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:246 pages, XXIII, 246 p.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:21/12/2018
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- ISBN:9783030099893
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:246 pages, XXIII, 246 p.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:21/12/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030099893
