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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 Production Jude Clemente Chapter Two-Applying Technological Disaster Process Models to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster Lisa A. Eargle, Ashraf M. Esmail, Jas M. Sullivan, and Shyamal K. Das Chapter Three-Beyond Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico: The Characteristics and Consequences of Catastrophe John Barnshaw and Lynn Letukas Chapter Four-Corporate Catastrophes from UC Bhopal to BP Deepwater Horizon: Continuities in Causation, Corporate Negligence, and Crisis Management Tomás Mac Sheoin and Stephen Zavestoski Chapter Five-The Effects of Oil Spills on Ecological Systems Jeffrey R. Wozniak Chapter Six-The Gulf Oil Spill, Ecological Debt, and Environmental Justice in Louisiana: Lessons From Sociology Timothy J. Haney Chapter Seven-A New Geography of Trouble Daina Cheyenne Harvey Chapter Eight-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 Chapter Nine-The Crude Awakening: Gulf Coast Residents Reflect on the BP Oil Spill and the 2010 Hurricane Season Michelle Meyer Lueck and Lori Peek Chapter Ten-The Ninety-Day Storm: Mississippi Community Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Jason S. Gordon and A. E. Luloff Chapter Eleven-Disaster Vulnerability: The Differential Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Among Alabama's Gulf Coast Residents James Hawdon and John Ryan Chapter Twelve-Disaster Phases, Structural Vulnerability and Crime Kelly Frailing and Dee Wood Harper Chapter Thirteen-Hazard, Outrage and Locality: An Analysis of Two Oil Spills Amanda K. Goddard, Kenneth A. Lachlan and Patric R. Spence Chapter Fourteen-Resisting Corporatism: Citizens Fight Back Against the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster Stan C. Weeber Chapter Fifteen-Disas...
