Tag: environmental humanities

• An Even More “Perfect Storm:” Climate Change + Rural Depopulation

  

  As rural populations continue to plummet, how will rural regions’ ability to respond to climate disasters be affected? It’s been 2 weeks since record rainfall in Akita caused residents to seek emergency shelter, halted shinkansen and other rail services, triggered landslides, and caused flood damage to hundreds of homes and business. According to Japan Meteorological…

  tohokubento

  July 31, 2023

  Akita–General

  climate change, Cultural Anthropology, environmental humanities, Ethnography, Japan, Japan Studies, Modern japan, natural disaster, PhD research, Rural Heritage