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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962634003321

Autore

Freudenburg William R

Titolo

Blowout in the Gulf : the BP oil spill disaster and the future of energy in America / / William R. Freudenburg and Robert Gramling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2011

ISBN

9786612899324

9780262294089

0262294087

9781282899322

1282899325

9780262294126

0262294125

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GramlingRobert <1943-2014.>

Disciplina

363.738/28

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2011.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.