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Communities at risk : collective responses to technological hazards

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

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Additional authors
  1. Couch, Stephen Robert.
  2. Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen, 1947-
Description
  1. vi, 320 pages; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Worcester Polytechnic Institute studies in science, technology, and culture ; vol. 3
Uniform title
  1. Worcester Polytechnic Institute studies in science, technology, and culture ; vol. 3.
Subject
  1. Technology > Social aspects
  2. Disasters > Social aspects
  3. Collective behavior
  4. Mass Behavior
  5. Gesellschaft
  6. Katastrophe
  7. Katastrophenrisiko
  8. Protestbewegung
  9. Risiko
  10. Sozialpsychologie
  11. Technik
  12. Technischer Fortschritt
  13. Ökologische Bewegung
  14. Entwicklung
  15. Umweltkatastrophe
  16. Kollektives Verhalten
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.