Japan's Nuclear Crisis

The Routes to Responsibility

S. Carpenter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2011
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-35492-0 (ISBN)

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An analysis and exploration into the impact of Japan's 2011 nuclear crisis. Investigation of the disaster will pose questions regarding why Daiichi was constructed in an earthquake-prone zone and was still operating despite problems that had been plaguing the reactors since 1989 such as cracks in infrastructure and leaks in radioactivity.

SUSAN CARPENTER is the managing director of International Markets Analysts Limited. She has worked for Japanese business and government organizations and also served as the Director of the MSc in International Business and Emerging Markets at the University of Edinburgh Business School. Her previous publications include Special Corporations and the Bureaucracy: Why Japan Can't Reform (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and Why Japan can't reform: Inside the System (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Introduction Definition of the Ministries' IAIs, Including Historical Development. Ministries Involved in Nuclear Sector and Their IAIs. Portrait of Japan's Current Political Environment Japan's Pre-earthquake Economy METI's Electric Development Power Corp Ehime. Aomori, Fukushima and MOX: Prefectural Acceptance of Ministerial 'Guidance' in Return for Public Works Projects Don't Blame the Bureaucrats Blame the System Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.12.2011
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 248 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-230-35492-0 / 0230354920
ISBN-13	978-0-230-35492-0 / 9780230354920
Zustand	Neuware