Learning from Disaster : : Risk Management After Bhopal / / Shelia Jasanoff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• HerausgeberIn: Jasanoff, Shelia,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Law in Social Context
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.) :; 4 illus.
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512803358; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512803358
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Shelia Jasanoff.

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.