Description: Balancing the natural and social sciences, this timely volume offers not only a model of interdisciplinary research for scholars but an invaluable guide to the planning and implementation of reconstruction.
Brief description: P.P. Karan, professor of geography and Japan studies at the University of Kentucky, is the author or editor of numerous books on Asian geography and culture, including Japanese Landscapes.
Review Quotes:
"This landmark book provides a clear and comprehensive account of devastation caused by the triple disasters of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear radiation that ravaged the northeastern coast of Japan on March 11, 2011.The contributors to this remarkable volume are experts in their fields, and many of them traveled to the most devastated areas to observe and document the disasters' impact on the lives of victims and on the landscape." -- Bimal K. Paul, author of Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management