Learning from Disaster
Risk Management After Bhopal
1st Edition
Published on 29. April 1994
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-8122-3250-9 (ISBN)
Description
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
The 1984 lethal gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, may be the most extensively studied industrial disaster in history. In a departure from earlier studies that have focused primarily on the causes of the catastrophe, Sheila Jasanoff and the contributors to this volume critically examine the consequences of the accident.
The 1984 lethal gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, may be the most extensively studied industrial disaster in history. In a departure from earlier studies that have focused primarily on the causes of the catastrophe, Sheila Jasanoff and the contributors to this volume critically examine the consequences of the accident.
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Edition
Reprint 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 illus.
4 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
618 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8122-3250-9 (9780812232509)
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Content
Preface
1. Introduction: Learning from Disaster
2. The Restructuring of Union Carbide
3. Legal and Political Repercussions in India
4. Industrial Risk Management in India Since Bhopal
5. Citizen Participation in Environmental Policy Making
6. Disaster Prevention in Europe
7. The Transnational Traffic in Legal Remedies
8. Bad Arithmetic: Disaster Litigation as Less Than the Sum of Its Parts
9. Toxic Politics and Pollution Victims in the Third World
10. Information and Disaster Prevention
11. The Capacity of International Institutions to Manage Bhopal-like Problems
12. Societal Contradictions and Industrial Crises
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
1. Introduction: Learning from Disaster
2. The Restructuring of Union Carbide
3. Legal and Political Repercussions in India
4. Industrial Risk Management in India Since Bhopal
5. Citizen Participation in Environmental Policy Making
6. Disaster Prevention in Europe
7. The Transnational Traffic in Legal Remedies
8. Bad Arithmetic: Disaster Litigation as Less Than the Sum of Its Parts
9. Toxic Politics and Pollution Victims in the Third World
10. Information and Disaster Prevention
11. The Capacity of International Institutions to Manage Bhopal-like Problems
12. Societal Contradictions and Industrial Crises
Bibliography
Contributors
Index