Silent spill : the organization of an industrial crisis /

In the Guadalupe Dunes, 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco, an oil spill persisted unattended for 38 years. Over the period 1990-1996, the national press devoted 504 stories to the Exxon Valdez accident and a mere nine to the Guadalupe spill -- even though the latter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beamish, Thomas D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Colección:Urban and industrial environments.
Temas:
Oil spills > Environmental aspects > California > Guadalupe Region > Public opinion.
Petroleum industry and trade > Environmental aspects > California > Guadalupe Region > Public opinion.
Pollution > California > Guadalupe Region > Public opinion.
Public opinion > California > Guadalupe Region.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control.
Ecology > Public opinion
Pollution > Public opinion
Public opinion
Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge (Calif.) > Environmental conditions > Public opinion.
California > Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge
ENVIRONMENT/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Oil History, Oil Production, and the Guadalupe Oil Spill
  • 2. Conceptual Footings
  • 3. A "Secret" Spill: When Routine Work Becomes Criminally Negligent
  • 4. The Agency Beat: Waiting for a "Tanker on the Rocks"
  • 5. A Local Focus: "The Straw That Broke the Camel's Back"
  • 6. Staring Blindly at a Problem: Incrementalism and Accommodation
  • App. A. Methodological Remarks
  • App. B. Event Chronology of the Guadalupe Dunes Spill, 1931-1999
  • App. C. Regulators and Regulations Involved in the Guadalupe Spill.

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