The physical and social determinants of mortality in the 3.11 tsunami

The human consequences of the 3.11 tsunami were not distributed equally across the municipalities of the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan. Instead, the mortality rate from the massive waves varied tremendously from zero to ten percent of the local residential population. What accounts for this va...

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Vydáno v:	Social science & medicine (1982) Ročník 124; s. 66 - 75
Hlavní autoři:	Aldrich, Daniel P., Sawada, Yasuyuki
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	England Pergamon Press Inc 01.01.2015
Témata:	Body Height Cities Cultural Capital Determinants Disasters Emergency preparedness Humans Infrastructure Japan Japan - epidemiology Mitigation Mortality Mortality Rates Municipalities Natural Disasters Pacific Ocean Policy Making Political conditions Political support Public policy Regions Social Capital Social factors Tsunamis Villages Japan Tsunami Natural disasters Mortality Social capital
ISSN:	0277-9536, 1873-5347, 1873-5347
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Shrnutí:	The human consequences of the 3.11 tsunami were not distributed equally across the municipalities of the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan. Instead, the mortality rate from the massive waves varied tremendously from zero to ten percent of the local residential population. What accounts for this variation remains a critical question for researchers and policy makers alike. This paper uses a new, sui generis data set including all villages, towns, and cities on the Pacific Ocean side of the Tohoku region to untangle the factors connected to mortality during the disaster. With data on demographic, geophysical, infrastructure, social capital, and political conditions for 133 municipalities, we find that tsunami height, stocks of social capital, and level of political support for the long-ruling LDP strongly influenced mortality rates. Given the high probability of future large scale catastrophes, these findings have important policy implications for disaster mitigation policies in Japan and abroad.
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ISSN:	0277-9536 1873-5347 1873-5347
DOI:	10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.11.025