Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
The 1984 lethal gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, may be the most extensively studied industrial disaster in history. In a departure from earlier studies that have focused primarily on the causes of the catastrophe, Sheila Jasanoff and the contributors to this volume critically examine the consequences of the accident.
Preface
1. Introduction: Learning from Disaster 2. The Restructuring of Union Carbide 3. Legal and Political Repercussions in India 4. Industrial Risk Management in India Since Bhopal 5. Citizen Participation in Environmental Policy Making 6. Disaster Prevention in Europe 7. The Transnational Traffic in Legal Remedies 8. Bad Arithmetic: Disaster Litigation as Less Than the Sum of Its Parts 9. Toxic Politics and Pollution Victims in the Third World 10. Information and Disaster Prevention 11. The Capacity of International Institutions to Manage Bhopal-like Problems 12. Societal Contradictions and Industrial Crises
