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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • Backmatter

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