Learning from Disaster: Risk Management After BhopalSheila Jasanoff University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994 - 291 sivua 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. |
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Learning from Disaster | 1 |
search for collective remedies An entrepreneurial legal culture cre | 10 |
The Restructuring of Union Carbide | 22 |
Legal and Political Repercussions in India | 44 |
Industrial Risk Management in India Since Bhopal 66 | 66 |
Citizen Participation in Environmental Policy Making 91 116 | 91 |
Disaster Prevention in Europe | 113 |
The Transnational Traffic in Legal Remedies | 133 |
Disaster Litigation as Less Than the Sum of | 158 |
Toxic Politics and Pollution Victims in the Third World | 180 |
Information and Disaster Prevention | 204 |
The Capacity of International Institutions to Manage | 225 |
Societal Contradictions and Industrial Crises | 248 |
Bibliography | 269 |
Contributors | 285 |
113 | 142 |
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action activists activities actors agencies Asbestos Litigation assessment Bhopal disaster Bhopal victims Bowonder Carbide's Chapter chemical Chemical & Engineering citizens claimants compensation complex costs damages December decision defendants Delhi developing countries economic effects efforts emissions Environment European event facilities factory filed groups Hensler impact implementation India Indian Supreme Court industrial disaster injuries institutions involved issues Journal Justice Kasperson lawyers legal system legislation LEPCs liability Madhya Pradesh major ment methyl isocyanate million National Law Journal officials organizational organizations participation percent pesticides plaintiffs plant political Pollution Control Board Press preventive problems procedures production programs regulation regulatory remedies require Review right to know risk management safety settlement Seveso Directive Singh society strategy Supreme Court technical Third World Tom Durkin tort system toxic tragedy transnational UNEP Union Carbide Corporation workers World Bank York
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