Pradyumna P. Karan, University Research Professor
in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, USA
is the author or editor of many books, including Japan in the 21st
Century: Environment, Economy, and Society and The Indian Ocean
Tsunami: The Global Response to a Natural Disaster.
Unryu Suganuma is associate professor of geography
at J. F. Oberlin University in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of
Sovereign Rights and Territorial Space in Sino-Japanese Relations
and coeditor of Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study
of the United States and Japan.
"This collection of essays by leading geographers and other
specialists in Japan and the United States is unique for the
multidimensional, ground-level perspectives it provides on the
events of 3/11 and their aftermath, as well as the explicit
comparisons it draws to disasters in other parts of the world." --
Bruce L. Batten, co-editor of Environment and Society in the
Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present
"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
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