Coastal communities and changing environments: case studies from Asia-Pacific

On the coast, local environmental problems meet with national-level political goals and international ideas of economy, trade and development in very apparent ways. The coasts and seas have significant potential to solve some of the big problems we face globally, by acting as sites for renewable energy, new international industries or even sustaining our own… Read More Coastal communities and changing environments: case studies from Asia-Pacific

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 Leslie MabonLeave a comment

Explainer: Fukushima Dai’ichi and water releases – science and society

Note: this post was originally published in October 2020, as plans to release treated water progressed towards approval. The explainer was updated in April 2021 to reflect the confirmation of the Japanese Government’s decision to release the treated water. I will continue to add more information as and when it becomes available. The purpose of… Read More Explainer: Fukushima Dai’ichi and water releases – science and society

October 21, 2020April 13, 2021 Leslie MabonLeave a comment

Fukushima fisheries: virtual field trip

This is a virtual field trip I’ve pulled together for the Marine Pollution class at SAMS to understand the effects of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on fisheries and fishing communities on the coast of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Anyone who wants to use it for teaching or their own learning is very welcome… Read More Fukushima fisheries: virtual field trip

October 4, 2020April 1, 2021 Leslie Mabon2 Comments

The sea, food and local identity on the Fukushima coast

For nearly all of January I was in Japan, where I was based at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology as a Visiting Researcher. When we put together our ESRC UK-Japan Social Science and Humanities Connections proposal last year, one of the activities we proposed was that I would have a visiting position at… Read More The sea, food and local identity on the Fukushima coast

February 18, 2020 Leslie MabonLeave a comment

Visit to Soma and Odaka plus workshop – September 2019

We chose late September for the Japan workshop of our project ‘Building Resilience to Environmental Change in Marginalised Coastal Communities’, supported by the ESRC-AHRC UK-Japan Social Sciences and Humanities Connections fund. Along with myself as Principal Investigator, my RGU colleagues Dr Leon Moller of the Law School and Yi-Chen Huang of the School of Applied… Read More Visit to Soma and Odaka plus workshop – September 2019

October 1, 2019August 26, 2020 Leslie MabonLeave a comment

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