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Communities at risk : collective responses to technological hazards

Title
Communities at risk : collective responses to technological hazards / edited by Stephen Robert Couch and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith.
Publication
New York : P. Lang, ©1991.

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Additional Authors
  • Couch, Stephen Robert.
  • Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen, 1947-
Description
vi, 320 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Worcester Polytechnic Institute studies in science, technology, and culture ; vol. 3
Uniform Title
Worcester Polytechnic Institute studies in science, technology, and culture ; vol. 3.
Subject
  • Technology > Social aspects
  • Disasters > Social aspects
  • Collective behavior
  • Mass Behavior
  • Gesellschaft
  • Katastrophe
  • Katastrophenrisiko
  • Protestbewegung
  • Risiko
  • Sozialpsychologie
  • Technik
  • Technischer Fortschritt
  • Ökologische Bewegung
  • Entwicklung
  • Umweltkatastrophe
  • Kollektives Verhalten
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Stephen Robert Couch and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith -- PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE -- 1. A new species of trouble / Kai Erikson -- PART 2: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSES -- 2. Victimization and self-blame following a technological disaster / Laura M. Davidson and Andrew Baum -- 3. Psychosocial reactions in Norway to nuclear fallout from the Chernobyl disaster / Lars Weisaeth -- PART 3: LOCAL ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSES -- 4. The political ecology of local protest groups / Lee Clarke -- 5. The emergence of environmental protest: yellow creek and TMI compared / Sherry Cable and Edward Walsh -- 6. The popular epidemiology approach to toxic waste contamination / Phil Brown -- PART 4: CULTURAL RESPONSES -- 7. From oil slick to greasepaint: theatre's role in community response to pollution events / John T. Omohundro -- 8. Putting radon and love canal on the public agenda / Allan Mazur -- 9. Ecological threats and spoiled identities: radon gas and environmental stigma / Michael R. Edelstein -- PART 5: POLITICAL ECONOMY RESPONSES -- 10: POWER: collective action and the Anthracite region water crisis / Robert P. Wolensky -- 11. Organizational myths in industrial crises: obfuscating revelations / Paul Shrivastava -- PART 6: CONCLUSION: COMMUNITIES AT RISK -- 12. Technological hazards, adaptation, and social change / J. Stephen Kroll-Smith and Stephen Robert Couch.
ISBN
  • 0820407127
  • 9780820407128
LCCN
89013557
OCLC
  • ocm20671589
  • 20671589
  • SCSB-1952067
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library