Social Policy for Kevaluating the Human Security Principle and De-grow Strategy in the Aftermath Process of the 3.11 Catastrophe

• OGASAWARA Koichi

  東北福祉大学

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 「復興」の社会政策 : 「人間の安全保障」と「脱成長」(<特集2>震災・災害と社会政策)

Abstract

The 3.11 earthquake and tsunami is classified as "catastrophe". Community structures were heavily damaged, local governing institutions are unable to operate properly, nearby municipalities cannot provide much assistance, and almost all everyday community and social functions have been disrupted. In addition, a series of man-made errors, especially the Fukushima nuclear accident, made the natural catastrophe all the more disruptive, bringing levels of grief, distrust, and exclusion remarkable in the history of natural disasters. This paper describes, first, the serious process of the lives of the victims since the disaster in terms of an uneasy psycho-social perspective towards the future, of senseless policy planning and the facing of local governments to hard realities, and of macro-economic path-dependent means of allocating material resources for reconstruction. Then the necessity of human security norms in the process of recovery and reconstruction of lives is addressed, together with an alternative economic strategy of de-growth (de-emphasizing dependence on economic growth) to invite local inhabitants and the victims into participatory and mutually designed visions/processes.

Journal

• Social Policy and Labor Studies

  Social Policy and Labor Studies 4 (3), 87-99, 2013

  Japan Association for Social Policy Studies

Keywords

• The 3.11 Catastrophe
• Psychosocial Supports Model
• Human Security
• Degrowth

Details

• CRID: 1390001206118776192
• NII Article ID: 110009688484
• DOI: 10.24533/spls.4.3_87
• ISSN: 24332984
• ISSN: 18831850
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed