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Advocacy after Bhopal : environmentalism, disaster, new global orders /
The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the resulting litigation provided an "innovative model" for dealing with the global distribution of technological risk; others...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the resulting litigation provided an "innovative model" for dealing with the global distribution of technological risk; others consider the disaster a turning point in environmental legislation; still others argue that Bhopal is what globalization looks like on the ground. Kim Fortun explores these claims by focusing on the dynamics and paradoxes of advocacy in competing power domains. She moves from hospitals in India to meeting. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 413 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-401) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226257181 0226257185 0226257193 9780226257198 |