Human security and Japan's triple disaster [electronic resource] : responding to the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis / edited by Paul Bacon and Christopher Hobson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Human security comes home : responding to Japan's triple disaster / Paul Bacon and Christopher Hobson -- 2. The politics of human security in Japan / Paul Bacon -- 3. Mismanaging risk and the Fukushima nuclear crisis / Jeff Kingston -- 4. Hidden insecurities : the workers of Fukushima Dai-ichi / Christopher Hobson -- 5. Human security as a military security leftover, or as part of the human condition? / Paul James -- 6. Human security and life recovery : lessons from the 1995 Kobe Earthquake and the 2011 triple disaster / Mayumi Sakamoto -- 7. Towards a people-centered housing recovery after the triple disaster / Elizabeth Maly -- 8. An ageing society and post-disaster community security / Junko Otani -- 9. Post-disaster recovery and the cultural dimension of human security / Akiko Fukushima -- 10. What role for nuclear power in Japan after Fukushima? A human security perspective / Paul Bacon and Mai Sato -- 11. Towards human security : climate change and the military role in humanitarian assistance and disaster response / Andrew DeWit -- 12. Life after the triple disaster : human security and the future / Christopher Hobson.