Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders

by Kim Fortun

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226257207
• ISBN13: 9780226257204
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"