Black beaches and bayous : the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster
Record details
- ISBN: 0761859799
- ISBN: 9780761859796
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 318 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, [2012]
- Copyright: ©2012
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The U.S. oil industry's safety record and the need for more domestic oil production / Jude Clemente -- Applying technological disaster process models to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster / Lisa A. Eargle [and others] -- Beyond petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico : the characteristics and consequences of catastrophe / John Barnshaw and Lynn Letukas -- Corporate catastrophes from UC Bhopal to BP Deepwater Horizon : continuities in causation, corporate negligence, and crisis management / Tomás Mac Sheoin and Stephen Zavestoski -- The effects of oil spills on ecological systems / Jeffrey R. Wozniak -- The Gulf oil spill, ecological debt, and environmental justice in Louisiana : lessons from sociology / Timothy J. Haney -- A new geography of trouble / Daina Cheyenne Harvey -- Ecological identity and disaster recovery in an oil-stained landscape : current and future policy implications / DeMond Shondell Miller, Jason David Rivera, and Brandon Eric Fleming -- The crude awakening : Gulf Coast residents reflect on the BP oil spill and the 2010 hurricane season / Michelle Meyer Lueck and Lori Peek -- The ninety-day storm : Mississippi community response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill / Jason S. Gordon and A.E. Luloff -- Disaster vulnerability : the differential impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster among Alabama's Gulf Coast residents / James Hawdon and John Ryan -- Disaster phases, structural vulnerability and crime / Kelly Frailing and Dee Wood Harper -- Hazard, outrage and locality : an analysis of two oil spills / Amanda K. Goddard, Kenneth A. Lachlan, and Patric R. Spence -- Resisting corporatism : citizens fight back against the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster / Stan C. Weeber -- Disaster distrust : risk assessment, citizen science and technolegal debates in the BP oil spill / Sabrina McCormick -- 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 / Jas M. Sullivan and Meghan S. Sanders. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Language Note: | English. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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