Learning from Disaster : : Risk Management After Bhopal / / 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 catast...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:Law in Social Context
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Physical Description:1 online resource (298 p.) :; 4 illus.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t 1. Introduction: Learning from Disaster --   |t 2. The Restructuring of Union Carbide --   |t 3. Legal and Political Repercussions in India --   |t 4. Industrial Risk Management in India Since Bhopal --   |t 5. Citizen Participation in Environmental Policy Making --   |t 6. Disaster Prevention in Europe --   |t 7. The Transnational Traffic in Legal Remedies --   |t 8. Bad Arithmetic: Disaster Litigation as Less Than the Sum of 158 Its Parts --   |t 9. Toxic Politics and Pollution Victims in the Third World --   |t 10. Information and Disaster Prevention --   |t 11. The Capacity of International Institutions to Manage Bhopal-like Problems --   |t 12. Societal Contradictions and Industrial Crises --   |t Bibliography --   |t Contributors --   |t Index --   |t Backmatter  
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