Learning from Disaster
Risk Management After Bhopal
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 2016
336 pages
978-1-5128-0335-8 (ISBN)
Description
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleThe 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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Reprint 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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4 illus.
4 illus.
ISBN-13
978-1-5128-0335-8 (9781512803358)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 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 158 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
