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Books on: bhopal disaster

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Shared Vulnerability: The Media and American Perceptions of the Bhopal Disaster

Book by Lee Wilkins; Greenwood Press, 1987

Subjects:

Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984--Public Opinion, Disasters--Press Coverage--United States, Fiction, Public Opinion--United States

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"This book chronicles the American media's coverage of the 1984 chemical spill in Bhopal, India, and its aftermath in the US. It explains how the press reported about Bhopal and examines journalism's subsequent influence on public perceptions about technological safety. . . . It is an excellent ...
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"This book chronicles the American media's coverage of the 1984 chemical spill in Bhopal, India, and its aftermath in the US. It explains how the press reported about Bhopal and examines journalism's subsequent influence on public perceptions about technological safety. . . . It is an excellent addition to university collections in science writing, journalism criticism, and mass media research and should be useful to undergraduates at all levels." Choice
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Learning from Disaster: Risk Management after Bhopal

Book by Sheila Jasanoff; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994

Subjects:

Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984, Technology And State, Technology--Risk Assessment, Technology--Social Aspects

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...Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984. I. Jasanoff...triggered by the events in Bhopal. Disasters and Public Policy Although...company and the victims--the Bhopal disaster was widely interpreted as a...
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Managing Disaster: Strategies and Policy Perspectives

Book by Louise K. Comfort; Duke University Press, 1988

Subjects:

Disaster Relief--Government Policy--United States, Disaster Relief--Management, Disaster Relief--United States--Management

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...scholars who are doing research and teaching in the field of disaster management. Louise K. Comfort Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...methyl isocyanate tank released a cloud of poison gas over Bhopal, India, causing over 2,000 deaths and uncounted injuries...
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Chaos Organization and Disaster Management

Book by Alan Krischenbaum; Marcel Dekker, 2004

Subjects:

Disaster Relief, Disaster Relief--Israel, Emergency Management, Emergency Management--Israel

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Chaos Organization and Disaster Management Alan Kirschenbaum...105. Chaos Organization and Disaster Management, Alan Kirschenbaum Additional...evolved into developing a behavioral disaster management unit in Israels Home Front...
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Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster

Book by Keith Smith; Routledge, 2004

Subjects:

Disasters, Environmental Risk Assessment, Natural Disasters

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This volume integrates key findings from the natural and the social sciences to provide an assessment of environmental risk and the policy responses required to achieve a safer world.

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Journal Articles on: bhopal disaster

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The Movement in Bhopal and Its Lessons

Journal article by Satinath Sarangi; Social Justice, Vol. 23, 1996

Subjects:

Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984--Environmental aspects, Environmental associations--Political activity

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...struggle of survivors of the Bhopal disaster, I wish to consider its successes...confront other situations like the Bhopal disaster. Given the waves of liberalization...Crisis and Breakthrough The Bhopal disaster has rightly been construed as...
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Crimes of Bhopal and the Global Campaign for Justice

Journal article by Satinath Sarangi; Social Justice, Vol. 29, 2002

Subjects:

Bhopal, India, Union Carbide Plant Disaster, 1984--Environmental aspects, Bhopal, India, Union Carbide Plant Disaster, 1984--Political aspects, Chemical industry--Environmental aspects, Chemical industry--Political aspects, Criminal liability of juristic persons, Union Carbide Corp.--Environmental policy, Union Carbide Corp.--Social policy, Workplace accidents--Political aspects

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...liabilities arising from the Bhopal disaster. Defying established legal procedures...Realities and Global Issues of the Bhopal Disaster. Tennessee: Highlander Research...For more information on the Bhopal disaster and Sambhavna please visit...
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Developing Corporate Codes of Ethics in Multinational Firms: Bhopal Revisited

Journal article by Chris Robertson, Paul A. Fadil; Journal of Managerial Issues, Vol. 10, 1998

Subjects:

Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984--Analysis, Business ethics--Research, International business enterprises--Moral and ethical aspects

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...circumstances leading up to the Bhopal disaster are revisited. The article concludes...1994). In the case of the Bhopal disaster, the deficient safety program...operating abroad. The industrial disaster in Bhopal, India was highlighted throughout...
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The Bhopal Saga: Causes and Consequences of the World's Largest Industrial Disaster

Journal article by Carol S. Wood; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 113, 2005

Subjects:

Chemical industry, Herbicides, Pesticides industry, Union Carbide Corp., Workplace accidents

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The Bhopal Saga: Causes and Consequences...Worlds Largest Industrial Disaster. by Carol S. Wood...worst industrial accident. The Bhopal Saga is an attempt to bring...International Medical Commission on Bhopal. She describes comprehensively...
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Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster

Journal article by Anthony Deckoff; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 59, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster (Book)--Book reviews

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...studies addressed include cultural analyses of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Oakland firestorm of 1991, the chemical disaster at Bhopal and two long-term drought studies. Also examined are the mindset and coping devices of the Israeli nation in the...

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Magazine Articles on: bhopal disaster

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Bhopal Campaigner's Death Highlights Victims' Plight

Magazine article by Monideepa Talukdar; World Watch, Vol. 19, November 2006

Subjects:

Activists, Bhopal, India, Union Carbide Plant Disaster, 1984--Environmental aspects, Bhopal, India, Union Carbide Plant Disaster, 1984--Health aspects, Political activists, Reformers, Social reformers, Verma, Sunil Kumar--Death of

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...Vermas act of despair, coming after nearly 22 years of relentless struggle, highlights the continuing tragedy of Bhopal. The disaster has been termed the "Hiroshima of chemical disasters" and is considered one of the worst cases of corporate malfeasance...
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The Year of Bhopal?

Magazine article by William F. Buckley Jr.; National Review, Vol. 37, February 8, 1985

Subjects:

Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984--Analysis, Methyl isocyanate--Accidents, Union Carbide India Ltd.--Accidents, Workplace accidents--India

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The Year of Bhopal? by William F. Buckley Jr...bright journalist said that the tragedy of Bhopal in India would probably emerge as the...even Jonestown tends to fade. So will Bhopal, and it is worth reflecting on just why...
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Bhopal Is for Lawyers

Magazine article; National Review, Vol. 37, January 11, 1985

Subjects:

Attorneys--Practice, Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984--Analysis, Lawyers--Practice, Legal liability--Analysis, Union Carbide Corp.--Accidents, liability (law)--Analysis

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Bhopal Is for Lawyers. WHEN DISASTER strikes far away in the Third World...Cole of Washington when he arrived in Bhopal. It happened that Mother Teresa arrived...are made by faraway executives. The Bhopal plant avoided all that. It was designed...
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Risky Systems; the Habit of Courting Disaster

Magazine article by Charles Perrow; The Nation, Vol. 243, October 11, 1986

Subjects:

Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984--Analysis, Challenger Space Shuttle Accident, 1986--Analysis, Chernobyl, Ukraine, Nuclear Accident, 1986--Analysis, Risk management--Usage, Workplace accidents--Analysis, risk management--Usage

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...yet known to man. After the Bhopal disaster, both Union Carbide and the...less about the cause of the Bhopal disaster, but the specific way in which...the tower somewhat after the Bhopal disaster; and it is unfortunately commonplace...
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To Union Carbide, Life Is Cheap: Bhopal - Ten Years Later

Magazine article by Joshua Karliner; The Nation, Vol. 259, December 12, 1994

Subjects:

Bhopal, India--Accidents, Chemical industry--Accidents, Union Carbide Corp.--Accidents

Collections: Entire Library

...the simple fact is that the Bhopal gas disaster never should have happened...business, by the time of the Bhopal disaster the Indian government had begun...the tenth anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster. By lowering its banners the...

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Newspaper Articles on: bhopal disaster

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Narrative of Disaster Explores Bhopal's Pain; Book on Indian City's 1984 Gas Tragedy Raises Concerns

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 22, 2002

Subjects:

Chemical industry, Union Carbide Corp.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Narrative of disaster explores Bhopals pain; Book on Indian...author of a book on Bhopal, a city in India and...deadliest industrial disaster, still finds the magnitude...the United States, the Bhopal disaster prompted legislation...
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CULTURE : Affirmative Action; Mike Davies Gets Positive with the Yes Men

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 5, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...going to make restitution to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal disaster. How could they pull such a cruel hoax and raise the...suffered so much? They didnt have much illusion in Bhopal about the issue being settled, counters Bichlbaum. There...
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Hidden Threats Not the Best Protection

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 30, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Forewarned is forearmed. Before the chemical disaster at Union Carbides facility in Bhopal, India, the public was told an accident that...claimed 20,000 lives could never happen. After Bhopal, the best the industry could say is that "it...
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1980-1989

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 25, 1999

Subjects:

Reagan, Ronald

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and tragedy (the Challenger disaster). America watched as winds...succeeded by her son, Rajiv. BHOPAL The Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, leaks poison gas...trial. 1986 CHALLENGER DISASTER The space shuttle Challenger...
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Islamic Foundations; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 21, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...surgeon. When the ship was attacked, he jumped into the sea to save his life. All his equipment was lost, which was a personal disaster as dentists used to equip their surgeries with their own instruments. I still shudder when I see footage of the ship exploding...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: bhopal disaster

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Bhopal

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...methyl isocynate gas escaped from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. An estimated 3,000 to 7,000 died immediately, 15,000 to 20,000 died from the effects in the years after the disaster, and 50,000 to 100,000 suffered from serious injuries as a...
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Chemical Industry

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...chemicals at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal , India (1984), was the worst industrial disaster in history and heightened public concern about...Chemical Industry (1984); W. Morehouse, The Bhopal Tragedy (1986); F. Aftalion, A History of...
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Pollution

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...they have industrialized. The potential for environmental disaster has been dramatically underscored by such events as the evacuation...1978), the chemical accident at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal , the oil spills from the tankers Exxon Valdez in Alaska...

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