[site fights] Civil society capacity or jobs?

Moved from Great Tohoku Revival, 2011-7-4

In his book, Site Fights, Daniel Aldrich argues that "public bads" are sited where civil society is weakest, where local associations are least able to organize resistance. He blames Tokyo Electric Power's siting of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as an example. [p. 32]

However, there is a gap in his analysis. As a proxy for civil society capacity, Professor Aldrich uses the decline in employment in the primary sector between 1980 and 1995.