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Informationen zum Autor Lisa A. Eargle is a professor of sociology at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. Her research examines disasters and their impacts upon society and the environment.Ashraf Esmail is an assistant professor in social sciences at Southern University at New Orleans. His research interests include urban, multicultural, and peace education; family; cultural diversity; political sociology; criminology; social problems; and deviance. Klappentext Black Beaches and Bayous: The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster 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. The contributors address topics such as the social and historical context of fossil fuel use, steps within the technological disaster process, and similarities and differences between this disaster and other technological disasters. They also discuss the social and psychological impacts on Gulf Coast residents, the transformation of natural ecological systems, changes in risk assessment, and media portrayals of the Obama administration and its response to this disaster. Zusammenfassung This book discusses one of the major U.S. disaster events within the past ten years. Scholars from various backgrounds address topics including the social and psychological impacts on Gulf Coast residents! the transformation of natural ecological systems! and media portrayals of the Obama administration and its response to this disaster. Inhaltsverzeichnis Figures Tables Foreword by Dr. George L. Amedee Preface by Dr. Lisa A. Eargle and Dr. Ashraf M. Esmail Acknowledgments Chapter One-The U.S. Oil Industry's Safety Record and the Need For More Domestic Oil ProductionJude ClementeChapter Two-Applying Technological Disaster Process Models to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill DisasterLisa A. Eargle, Ashraf M. Esmail, Jas M. Sullivan, and Shyamal K. DasChapter Three-Beyond Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico: The Characteristics and Consequences of CatastropheJohn Barnshaw and Lynn LetukasChapter Four-Corporate Catastrophes from UC Bhopal to BP Deepwater Horizon: Continuities in Causation, Corporate Negligence,and Crisis Management Tomás Mac Sheoin and Stephen ZavestoskiChapter Five-The Effects of Oil Spills on Ecological SystemsJeffrey R. WozniakChapter Six-The Gulf Oil Spill, Ecological Debt, and Environmental Justice in Louisiana: Lessons From SociologyTimothy J. HaneyChapter Seven-A New Geography of TroubleDaina Cheyenne HarveyChapter Eight-Ecological Identity and Disaster Recovery in an Oil-Stained Landscape: Current and Future Policy ImplicationsDeMond Shondell Miller, Jason David Rivera, and Brandon Eric FlemingChapter Nine-The Crude Awakening: Gulf Coast Residents Reflect on the BP Oil Spill and the 2010 Hurricane SeasonMichelle Meyer Lueck and Lori PeekChapter Ten-The Ninety-Day Storm: Mississippi Community Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Jason S. Gordon and A. E. LuloffChapter Eleven-Disaster Vulnerability: The Differential Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Among Alabama's Gulf Coast ResidentsJames Hawdon and John RyanChapter Twelve-Disaster Phases, Structural Vulnerability and CrimeKelly Frailing and Dee Wood HarperChapter Thirteen-Hazard, Outrage and Locality: An Analysis of Two Oil Spills Amanda K. Goddard, Kenneth A. Lachlan and Patric R. SpenceChapter Fourteen-Resisting Corporatism: Citizens Fight Back Against the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster Stan C. WeeberChapter Fifteen-Disaster Distrust: Risk Assessment, Citizen Science and Technolegal Debates in the BP Oil SpillSabrina McCormickChapter Sixteen-The President, the News, and the Oil ...
