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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jasanoff, Shelia, Editor.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Law in Social Context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984.

Technology and state.

Technology--Risk assessment.

Technology.

Technology--Social aspects.

India--Bhopal.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.) : 4 illus.

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781512803358

1512803359

OCLC:

979585380