Learning from Disaster : Risk Management After Bhopal /

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 catast...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jasanoff, Shelia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Colección:Law in Social Context
Temas:
1984
Technology > Risk assessment.
Technology and state.
Technology > Social aspects.
Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984.
Technologie > Évaluation du risque.
Politique scientifique et technique.
Catastrophe de Bhopāl, Bhopāl, Inde, 1984.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Regional Planning.
India > Bhopal.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource : 4 illustrations
ISBN:9781512803358
1512803359

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