Learning from Disaster: Risk Management After Bhopal (Anniversary Collection)

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081221532X
• ISBN13: 9780812215328
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"