The Emergence of Food Panic: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake
The Emergence of Food Panic: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake
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DOI：
10.20965/jdr.2013.p0814
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发表时间：
2013-09-01
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0.8
通讯作者：
Gomez, Oscar A. S.
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作者：
Gomez, Oscar A. S.
本文记录了2011年3月11日东日本大地震后，宫城县仙台市发生的食品恐慌。食物恐慌是指一般民众担心在一段时间内无法获得食物供应（包括饮用水）的情况，因此表现出以下至少一种异常行为：恐慌性购买、囤积或恐慌性逃离，可能因不分青红皂白的价格上涨而加剧。主要和次要数据，包括媒体报道，官方文件，直接观察，半结构化访谈和原始调查，描述了食品恐慌的特征，并提出了其发生背后的机制。主要行为者的反应也被描述出来，突出了私营部门在应对粮食恐慌中的重要性。最后一节提出了在未来研究中应对这种恐慌和挑战的建议。
This paper documents a food panic in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, following the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake. A food panic is defined as a situation in which the general population fears losing access to food supplies, including drinking water, for an unknown length of time and, as a consequence, exhibits at least one of the following abnormal behaviors: panic buying, hoarding, or panic flight, probably aggravated by indiscriminate price hikes. Primary and secondary data, including media reports, official documents, direct observation, semistructured interviews, and an original survey, describe the characteristics of the food panic and suggest the mechanisms behind its occurrence. The reactions of major actors are depicted, highlighting the importance of the private sector in dealing with food panics. Suggestions for preparedness against such panics and challenges in future studies are covered in the last section.