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Post-Tsunami Japan's Push To Rebuild Coast in Concrete

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Winifred Bird
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In the wake of the 2011 tsunami, the Japanese government is forgoing an opportunity to sustainably protect its coastline and is instead building towering concrete seawalls and other defenses that environmentalists say will inflict serious damage on coastal ecosystems.

This is a revised and expanded version of an article originally published by Yale Environment 360 <link>

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 21 , May 2013 , e1
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