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The long road to recovery - Community responses to industrial disaster

Author
Mitchell J.K. (ed.)
Date
1996
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-072988)
Publisher | Place of publication
United Nations University Press | Tokyo, Japan
ISBN
92-808-0926-1
Pages
308 p.
Document type
Miscellaneous
Language
English
Field of application
International
Country/Territory
Japan, Italy, India, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Iraq, Belarus, Ukraine, United States of America, United States of America
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Toxicity/poisoning Military activities Business/industry/corporations Oil pollution Hazardous substances Disasters Nuclear energy
Abstract

Contents: 1 Improving community responses to industrial disasters 2 Responses to minimate disease 3 Environmental contamination, community transformation and the Centralia mine fire 4 Seveso: A paradoxical classic disaster 5 Long - term recovery from the Bhopal crisis 6 Iranian recovery from industrial devastation during war with Iraq 7 The Chernobyl disasters - Its effect on Belarus and Ukraine 8 The Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaska 9 Signposts on the road to recovery