IN-EAST News
13.02.2013 - 00:00
First Asia-Europe Forum (2011): 3 Papers published at Asia Europe Journal Vol. 11 No. 1/2013
Publications from the first Asia-Europe Forum (Nov. 2011) on Methods and Perspectives of Risk Analysis
A number of revised papers originally prepared for the Asia-Europe Forum on Methods and Perspectives of Risk Analysis have been published by the Asia Europe Journal, an SSCI-listed academic journal co-edited by Werner Pascha, also co-organizer of the first Asia-Europe Forum, and by Yeo Lay Hwee on behalf of the Springer Publishing Group. The papers focus on a number of issues surrounding the March 2011 Fukushima incident.
The Asia-Europe Forum was organized by the Hong Kong Advanced Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Studies at the City University of Hong Kong, co-organized by the Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) of the University of Duisburg-Essen, and took place in Hong Kong, November 17–18, 2011.
The three papers published in Vol. 11 No. 1 (March 2013) of the Asia Europe Journal are:
Risk Communication Surrounding the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: an Anthropological Approach by Pablo M. Figueroa (Waseda University, Tokyo),
Thinking after Fukushima. Epistemic Shift in Social Sciences
by Alain-Marc Rieu (University of Lyon), and
Confronting Earthquake Risk in Japan – are Private Households Underinsured?
by Franz Waldenberger (University of Munich).