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Blowout in the Gulf : the BP oil spill disaster and the future of energy in America / William R. Freudenburg and Robert Gramling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freudenburg, William R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010.
- Oil spills--America, Gulf of.
- Oil spills.
- Drilling platforms--Accidents--America, Gulf of.
- Drilling platforms.
- Offshore oil industry--Environmental aspects--America, Gulf of.
- Offshore oil industry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (269 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explains both the disaster and the decisions that led up to it and argues that for the future the emphasis needs to be on prevention and that risk-management policies be based on better understandings of humans and hardware.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1 A Question for Our Time
- 2 The Macondo Mess
- 3 Stored Sunlight and Its Risks
- 4 Colonel of an Industry
- 5 Barons and Barrels
- 6 Off the Edge in All Directions
- 7 "Energy Independence"
- 8 To Know Us Is to Love Us?
- 9 Cleaning Up
- 10 Today and Tomorrow
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2011.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612899324
- 9780262294089
- 0262294087
- 9781282899322
- 1282899325
- 9780262294126
- 0262294125
- OCLC:
- 681740164
- Publisher Number:
- 9786612899324
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