Emergency Planning
APRIL 24, 2022
As an example, consider the impact of the Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear release in Japan in 2011 on nuclear energy policy in other countries (Wittneben 2012,Kim et al. Geopolitics, globalised production, global competition for natural resources and the world-wide effects of climate change all have local impacts and implications.
Emergency Planning
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
In 2011 there was a 20.5-metre A piece of the Sanriku coast at Minamisanriku, NE Japan. metre tsunami here. Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE AR-SA In 1966 the eminent Californian risk analyst Chauncey Starr published a seminal paper in Science Magazine in which he stated that "a thing is safe if its risks are judged to be acceptable."
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Emergency Planning
MAY 6, 2024
An example is the excoriating report produced by three eminent Japanese women after the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear release, which highlights the deficiencies of a response system in which decision making is in the hands of elderly males. [1] Standardised,"all hazards" emergency planning methodology applied at all levels.
Emergency Planning
AUGUST 22, 2019
In 2011, when I was approached by Elsevier about establishing the IJDRR, the first question was, "Is there a need for a new journal in this field?" Seven years later, the submission rate is equivalent to about 1,500 manuscripts per year (although the rejection rate is over 80 per cent).
Emergency Planning
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
At the other end of the scale, in the Tōhoku region of northeast Honshu, Japan, there are now 62 museums dedicated to the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear release. For years, efforts to create a documentation centre and memorial at the site were routinely blocked.
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Rioting and looting occurred in London in 2011 and in Concepcion, Chile, after the 2010 earthquake and tsunami. It is likely to be polycentric (hoping that I am not taking too metropolitan view of the phenomenon). It may be therapeutic or it may be dysfunctional.
Plan B Consulting
JUNE 24, 2021
Evergreen Container Ship getting stuck in the Suez Canal (Figure 1) The 2011 floods in Thailand (Figure 2) Fukushima Earthquake (Figure 3) These three incidents, for me, represent ‘traditional’ incidents. In a similar situation, in 2011, I worked for a high-tech company on a product that regulated traffic through internet pipes and cables.
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