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UNINA9910962634003321 |
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Autore |
Freudenburg William R |
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Titolo |
Blowout in the Gulf : the BP oil spill disaster and the future of energy in America / / William R. Freudenburg and Robert Gramling |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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9786612899324 |
9780262294089 |
0262294087 |
9781282899322 |
1282899325 |
9780262294126 |
0262294125 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (269 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GramlingRobert <1943-2014.> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 |
Oil spills - America, Gulf of |
Drilling platforms - Accidents - America, Gulf of |
Offshore oil industry - Environmental aspects - America, Gulf of |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 2011. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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