Advocacy after Bhopal : environmentalism, disaster, new global orders

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Label

Advocacy after Bhopal : environmentalism, disaster, new global orders

Title remainder

environmentalism, disaster, new global orders

Statement of responsibility

Kim Fortun

Creator

• Fortun, Kim

Subject

• Environmental policy -- Citizen participation
• Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984
• Human ecology -- Study and teaching
• Disaster relief -- India -- Case studies
• Disaster victims -- Services for
• Social responsibility of business -- Environmental aspects

Genre

• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

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 meeting

Dewey number

363.7/058/0954

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography