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Author:   Shigeo Atsuji
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Japan
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Japan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   5.089kg
ISBN:  

9784431559221

ISBN 10:   4431559221
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   22 November 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Preface.- Part I Disaster Chain.- 1 Carbonized Terra: Paradox of Civilization.- 2 The Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe: Systemic Breakdown and Pathology.- 3 Our Stolen Sustainability: Contamination by Environmental Hormones.- Part II Organizational Accidents.- 4 Crime or Punishment: Brakeless Accidents without Compliance and Governance.- 5 Lost Trust: Socio-biological Hazard: from AIDS Pandemic to Viral Outbreaks.- 6 Boiling Globe: Cumulative Thermal Effluent from the World’s 441 Nuclear Reactors over 40 years.- Part III Science of Crises.- 7 Escape from Disaster: Invisible Informatics of Risks and Crises.- 8 Crisis Sciences for Sustainability beyond the Limits of Management and Policy.- 9 Remaking Eco-civilization by Sustainable Decision-making.- Bibliography.- Index.

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Dr. Shigeo Atsuji is Professor of Informatics at Kansai University in Japan and a Research Fellow at Kyoto University (2012-13). With a DBA in organization theory and a PhD in policy sciences, he is a member of a number of scholarly associations and societies. Professor Atsuji’s research interests focus on management informatics and organizational intelligence, decision-making theory and the organizational aspects of accident and disaster. He has led teams producing case studies of events such as the Fukushima nuclear power station disaster linked to the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in 2011 and the JR West railway accident of 2005 and has presented associated case studies funded by the government at international conferences including those of the International Society for Systems Science and the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management.

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