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Carbonized Terra: Paradox of Civilization

Atsuji, Shigeo

Pages: 3 –16

[Whether Asia or America, Europe or Africa, disasters happen all over the world and have been present at all periods in history, both recorded and unrecorded, and in societies of all creeds, whether Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, or of other religious identity. This book addresses the unnatural...

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The Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe: Systemic Breakdown and Pathology

Atsuji, Shigeo

Pages: 17 –41

[The magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that struck northeast Japan on March 11, 2011, were unavoidable natural disasters, but we consider the subsequent breakdown of the Fukushima nuclear reactors to be a catastrophe created not only by nuclear-engineering systems but also by avoidable system...

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Our Stolen Sustainability: Contamination by Environmental Hormones

Atsuji, Shigeo

Pages: 43 –62

[When we speak of sustainable development in the context of modern society, what does it actually mean? Here we would like to address the issue of environmental contamination and explore the conditions required to move toward human coexistence and symbiosis with the natural environment [1]....

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Crime or Punishment: Brakeless Accidents without Compliance and Governance

Atsuji, Shigeo

Pages: 65 –85

[This chapter [1] examines a case study of the JR (Japan Railways) West Accident (Photograph 4.1), the worst railway accident [2] in Japanese history. The purpose of this research is to prevent similar accidents by focusing on ‘organizational learning disabilities’ [3]. Firstly, a review of a...

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Lost Trust: Socio-biological Hazard—From AIDS Pandemic to Viral Outbreaks

Atsuji, Shigeo

Pages: 87 –106

[Iatrogenic HIV infection refers here to cases of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) caused by private and public administration of blood products [1]. Following the discovery of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in 1981, numerous warnings were issued by specialists...

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Boiling Globe: Cumulative Thermal Effluent from the World’s 441 Nuclear Reactors over 40 Years

Atsuji, Shigeo

Pages: 107 –131

[Hiroyuki Itsuki has said that Fukushima was a ‘second war defeat’. Japan, which suffered the atomic bombing of “Hiroshima and Nagasaki” in World War II, was once again visited by a nuclear incident at Fukushima. After the World War, the state was defeated, but the natural environment was...

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Escape from Disaster: Invisible Informatics of Risks and Crises

Atsuji, Shigeo

Pages: 135 –160

[Why are the lands that were home to four of the world’s great civilizations—Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus valley, and China—turning to desert? What has gone wrong? Is it human-made disaster or natural disaster? The Maya and Inca civilizations, Easter Island, and many other ancient civilizations...

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Crisis Sciences for Sustainability beyond the Limits of Management and Policy

Atsuji, Shigeo

Pages: 161 –188

[In his work Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, J. Diamond analyzes the collapse of the Easter Island and Maya civilizations, establishing that population increase resulted in food shortage and forest depletion and that these environmental changes brought about the destruction of...

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Remaking Eco-civilization by Sustainable Decision-Making

Atsuji, Shigeo

Pages: 189 –209

[Is there something in humanity’s nature that makes us seek out unsafety and risk? Already in the hunter-gatherer society of prehistory, a pattern of communal living for the sake of survival and cooperation to obtain food, clothing, and shelter was universal. Well before recorded history, as...

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