Commentary: New Currents in Science: The Challenge of Quality, examining the discrepancies and incongruities between Japanese techno-scientific policy and the citizens’ science movement in post-3/11 Japan

Futures

Volumn 91, Issue , 2017, Pages 84-89

  Tsukahara, Togo ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chernobyl compared with fukushima; Democracy and technocracy; Disaster capitalism; East asian STS; Post 3 11 Japan

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOCRACY; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HEALTH IMPACT; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; TECHNOLOGY POLICY;

FUKUSHIMA [TOHOKU]; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 85020259583     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2017.04.008     Document Type: Article

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