Animals and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

• Main Author: Itoh, Mayumi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
• Subjects: Ethics.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Animal welfare.; Radiation protection.; Radiation-Safety measures.; Social Philosophy.; Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics.; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection.

This book is the first comprehensive, in-depth English language study of the animals that were left behind in the exclusion zone in the wake of the nuclear meltdown of three of the four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in March 2011, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquak...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Plight of Animals in General and Their Relief
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Government Animal Relief Operations in Exclusion Zone
• 3. Headquarters for Animal Relief in Emergencies
• 4. Volunteer Animal Rescue in Exclusion Zone I
• 5. Volunteer Animal Rescue in Exclusion Zone II
• Part II. Plights of Specific Animals and Their Rescue
• 6. Dogs Left Behind in Exclusion Zone
• 7. Cats Left Behind in Exclusion Zone
• 8. Disposal of Cattle in Exclusion Zone
• 9. Horses Left Behind in Exclusion Zone
• 10. Other Animals Left Behind in Exclusion Zone
• Part III. Comparisons and Overall Assessment
• 11. Wildlife in Exclusion Zone in Chernobyl
• 12. Mid-Niigata Prefecture Earthquake and Animal Rescue
• 13. Kumamoto Earthquake and Animal Rescue
• 14. Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.