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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828158203321

Titolo

Black beaches and bayous : the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. / / edited by Lisa A. Eargle and Ashraf Esmail

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2012

©2012

ISBN

0-7618-5979-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Disciplina

363.119622338190916364

Soggetti

BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010

BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 - Social aspects

BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Black Beaches And Bayous ; CONTENTS ; Figures ; Tables ; Foreword ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Chapter One-The U.S. Oil Industry's Safety Record and the Need For More Domestic Oil Production ; Chapter Two-Applying Technological Disaster Process Models to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster ; Chapter Three-Beyond Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico: The Characteristics and Consequences of Catastrophe  ; Chapter Four-Corporate Catastrophes from UC Bhopal to BP Deepwater Horizon: Continuities in Causation, Corporate Negligence, and Crisis Management

Chapter Five-The Effects of Oil Spills on Ecological Systems Chapter Six-The Gulf Oil Spill, Ecological Debt, and Environmental Justice in Louisiana: Lessons From Sociology ; Chapter Seven-A New Geography of Trouble ; Chapter Eight-Ecological Identity and Disaster Recovery in an Oil-Stained Landscape: Current and Future Policy Implications ; Chapter Nine-The Crude Awakening: Gulf Coast Residents Reflect on the BP Oil Spill and the 2010 Hurricane Season ; Chapter Ten-The Ninety-Day Storm: Mississippi Community Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Chapter Eleven-Disaster Vulnerability: The Differential Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Among Alabama's Gulf Coast Residents



Chapter Twelve-Disaster Phases, Structural Vulnerability and Crime ; Chapter Thirteen-Hazard, Outrage and Locality: An Analysis of Two Oil Spills ; Chapter Fourteen-Resisting Corporatism: Citizens Fight Back Against the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster ; Chapter Fifteen-Disaster Distrust: Risk Assessment, Citizen Science and Technolegal Debates in the BP Oil Spill

Chapter Sixteen-The President, the News, and the Oil Spill: An Examination of National and State Newspapers' Framing of Obama and His Administration's Response to the Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill Editors ; Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses one of the major U.S. disaster events within the past ten years. Scholars from various backgrounds address topics including the social and psychological impacts on Gulf Coast residents, the transformation of natural ecological systems, and media portrayals of the Obama administration and its response to this disaster.