12. Societal Contradictions and Industrial Crises

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. 1. Introduction: Learning from Disaster 1
5. 2. The Restructuring of Union Carbide 22
6. 3. Legal and Political Repercussions in India 44
7. 4. Industrial Risk Management in India Since Bhopal 66
8. 5. Citizen Participation in Environmental Policy Making 91
9. 6. Disaster Prevention in Europe 113
10. 7. The Transnational Traffic in Legal Remedies 133
11. 8. Bad Arithmetic: Disaster Litigation as Less Than the Sum of 158 Its Parts 158
12. 9. Toxic Politics and Pollution Victims in the Third World 180
13. 10. Information and Disaster Prevention 204
14. 11. The Capacity of International Institutions to Manage Bhopal-like Problems 225
15. 12. Societal Contradictions and Industrial Crises 248
16. Bibliography 269
17. Contributors 285
18. Index 289
19. Backmatter 293