Like any project, creating a solid foundation of resources that inform both theories and data of your topic is an important step. Developing a project that falls within the framework of my concentration and independent study have provided a great starting point for the beginning of my annotated bibliography. My concentration offers a lot of […]
The Meaning of Resilience: Community Response to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Meltdown
The following is a proposal abstract for a capstone project on resilient communities in Japan. How can communities be resilient to nuclear disaster? Nuclear disaster has little precedent and therefore does not have a strong disaster culture. The effects of nuclear disaster are also so complex that the ability for communities to be resilient to […]
The path to understanding nuclear power through independent study
This semester has been a new experience for me, working one-on-one with a professor about a subject that I have been so interested in, nuclear power. I began the semester with very straightforward background research on the nuclear power industry, including how the power is produced, what types of plants are there and what are […]
Surviving Disaster: resilience capabilities in the 2011 Tohoku tsunami and nuclear disaster
Background Resilience is generally as a system’s ability “absorb impacts and cope with an event,” in a way that maintains community function (Cutter et. al. 2008, p. 599). In the end, the community would be better prepared for future events due to the social learning process that would take place after a disaster (Adger 2000, […]
Who’s disaster?: Vulnerable populations in Fukushima prefecture’s resilience to the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant meltdown
Background Disaster resilience refers to the ability of an individual or system to “absorb disturbance and reorganize into a functioning system” (Cutter et. al. 2008, p. 599), and most definitions include the capacity for social learning to better prepare responses to future disaster. The capabilities that determine such post-disaster function usually include the pre-existing conditions […]
Adapting to the Unadaptable: the resilience of Fukushima prefecture to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake
Background Resilience is a broad and multidimensional concept that can be applied in a number of contexts, from mental health to infrastructure. In regards to disaster resilience, the word is most generally used to refer to a community’s ability to experience disaster events, and then reorganize in a way that maintains community function (Cutter et. […]
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