Author : Arthur Diamond
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560060093
Examines the chemical leak at Bhopal in its historical, cultural, and human contexts.
Author : Johan M. Havenaar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 2002-08-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780306467844
This book presents an overview of research on the psychological and societal consequences of ecological disasters. It gives in-depth case studies on most of the major incidents that have occurred in the 1980s and 1990s. It summarizes the accumulated knowledge in this area and identifies areas of future research. It can serve as a resource for practitioners and policymakers dealing with current and future ecological calamities and may help them to define an adequate response to the complex public health challenges these incidents represent.
Author : Ingrid Eckerman
Publisher : Universities Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9788173715150
The Bhopal Saga Is An Incisive Analysis Of One Of The Worst Industrial Accidents That Has Taken Place In The Recent Past. It Also Discusses The Conflicting Stance Of The Union Carbide Corporation And The Government Of India On The Moral Responsibility For The Tragedy.
Author : Dominique Lapierre
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 2009-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 044656124X
A gripping, kaleidoscopic account of a horrific industrial disaster that shook the world, from wold-renowned humanitarian and internationally bestselling author Dominique Lapierre. It was December 3, 1984. In the ancient city of Bhopal, a cloud of toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant, killing and injuring thousands of people. When the noxious clouds cleared, the worst industrial disaster in history had taken place. Now, Dominique Lapierre brings the hundreds of characters, conflicts, and adventures together in an unforgettable tale of love and hope. Readers will meet the poetry-loving factory worker who unleashes the apocalypse, the young Indian bride who was to be married that terrible night, and the doctors who died that night saving others.
Author : Kim Fortun
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2009-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226257185
The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the resulting litigation provided an "innovative model" for dealing with the global distribution of technological risk; others consider the disaster a turning point in environmental legislation; still others argue that Bhopal is what globalization looks like on the ground. Kim Fortun explores these claims by focusing on the dynamics and paradoxes of advocacy in competing power domains. She moves from hospitals in India to meetings with lawyers, corporate executives, and environmental justice activists in the United States to show how the disaster and its effects remain with us. Spiraling outward from the victims' stories, the innovative narrative sheds light on the way advocacy works within a complex global system, calling into question conventional notions of responsibility and ethical conduct. Revealing the hopes and frustrations of advocacy, this moving work also counters the tendency to think of Bhopal as an isolated incident that "can't happen here."
Author : Sunita Narain
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984
ISBN : 9788186906781
Author : Indra Sinha
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 141657879X
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, "Animal's People" is by turns a profane, scathingly funny, and piercingly honest tale of a boy so badly damaged by the poisons released during a chemical plant leak that he walks on all fours.
Author : Paul Shrivastava
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 1992-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN :
Bhopal native Shrivastava (management, Bucknell U., Pennsylvania) examines the general and specific causes for the 1984 toxic gas leak from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal that killed 3,000 people, and the impact on the injured, society, and industrial and regulatory organizations. Updated from the 1987 first edition to describe the lingering effects. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Suroopa Mukherjee
Publisher : Tulika Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984
ISBN : 9788186895849
Author : Jamie Cassels
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Law
ISBN :
In December 1984, a massive explosion and discharge of poisonous gas from Union Carbide's pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, killed over 2,500 people. Hundreds more have since died and many thousands were injured. Cassels (law, U. of Victoria, B.C.) traces the origins of the Bhopal tragedy and examines the legal aftermath and global implications. Cassels concludes, with the Supreme Court of India, that in a time of exploding technology, we cannot be satisfied entirely with the "uncertain promises of law." Cassels suggests a number of fundamental reforms that must be forged if future Bhopals are to be prevented. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
