Published January 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Environmental Disaster in Japan: Responding with Citizens Movements and Workaday Knowledge

Creators

  • 1. Universite d'Aix-Marseille, LAMES - Laboratoire mediterraneen de sociologie (France)

Description

This paper briefly deals with the theme of community resilience in times of environmental disaster. The author analyzes how the action of private citizens, when backed by common, workaday knowledge, can compensate for a lack of official public response. This approach is based upon practices of resilience developed by local citizens movements after the industrial waste pollution disasters in Minamata and Toyama

Availability note (English)

Available from doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ebisu.375

Additional details

Additional titles

Original title (French)
Catastrophe environnementale au Japon: apport des savoirs profanes et mouvements citoyens

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Ebisu. Etudes Japonaises (Online)
Journal Issue
no.47
Journal Page Range
p. 143-150
ISSN
2189-1893

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