Making sense of complexity in risk governance in post-disaster Fukushima fisheries: a scalar approach.
Leslie Mabon,Midori Kawabe +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the case of fisheries in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture in Japan following the 2011 nuclear disaster and argue that framing post-disaster fisheries governance at the municipal scale rather than the prefectural scale has opened up opportunities for enacting more two-way forms of risk governance that contemporary environmental issues may require.
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About: This article is published in Environmental Science & Policy. The article was published on 01 Sep 2017. and is currently open access. The article focuses on the topics: Risk governance & Environmental governance.
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Figure 1: Fukushima Prefecture and Iwaki City. Adapted from map tiles by Stamen Design, 118 under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under ODbL, originally published in Mabon and 119 Kawabe (2015) 120 
Figure 2: overview of institutions, processes, and standards involved in governance of trial 336 fisheries in Iwaki. 337 
Table 3: steps taken to ensure rigour in study, in line with qualitative research ‘best practice’ 812 
Table 2 – documents sampled for in-depth analysis 809 
Table 4: summary of different risk communication approaches and perceptions at different scales 813 
Table 1: overview of interviewees 806
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