Fukushima and the political economy of power policy in Japan

Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery After Japan's 3/11

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 156-172

  DeWit, Andrew ^a   Tetsunari, Lida ^b   Masaru, Kaneko ^c  

^a RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies iTEX bldgs   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84887169647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203124109     Document Type: Chapter

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