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The Long road to recovery : community responses to industrial disaster / edited by James K. Mitchell.
Lippincott Library HD7262 .L663 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial accidents--Case studies.
- Industrial accidents.
- Crisis management--Case studies.
- Crisis management.
- High technology industries--Accidents--Case studies.
- High technology industries.
- High technology industries--Accidents.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- This book is about community responses to types of industrial disasters that, going far beyond routine mishaps, constitute "surprise" disasters. These disasters are producing unprecedented consequences, and they are emerging faster and lasting longer than ever before. Examples include mercury contamination in Minamata, Japan; underground fires in Centralia, Pennsylvania; the airborne dioxin release at Seveso, Italy; the poison gas cloud in Bhopal, India; the nuclear reactor fire at Chernobyl, Ukraine; the destruction of Iran's oil facilities during the war with Iraq; and the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9280809261
- OCLC:
- 35727088
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