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Title Black beaches and bayous : the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster / edited by Lisa A. Eargle and Ashraf Esmail.

Pub Info Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, [2012]
℗♭2012

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Descript 1 online resource (xiii, 318 pages) : illustrations
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary This title provides a multidisciplinary, international perspective on one of the major disaster events within the United States during the last ten years. Scholars from various disciplines including sociology, political science, ecology, psychology, and criminal justice investigate the different components and issues associated with this event.
Contents 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 / Toma⁺ѓs 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.
Note English.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide
Subject BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010.
BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 -- Social aspects.
BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 -- Environmental aspects.
BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 -- Political aspects.
Oil spills -- Mexico, Gulf of.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Oil spills. (OCoLC)fst01044773
Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01354981
Gulf of Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01239980
BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill (2010) (OCoLC)fst01755775
2010
Alt Author Eargle, Lisa A., editor.
Esmail, Ashraf, editor.
Alt Title BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster
British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster
ISBN 9780761859796 (electronic bk.)
0761859799 (electronic bk.)
9780761859789
0761859780