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Black beaches and bayous : the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. / / edited by Lisa A. Eargle and Ashraf Esmail
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Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2012 |
©2012 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.119622338190916364 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Persona (resp. second.): | EargleLisa A. |
EsmailAshraf | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Black beaches and bayous ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-7618-5979-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910461116803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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