Silent Spill
Subtitle: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis (Urban and Industrial Environments)
Publisher: The MIT Press; MIT Press
Published: February 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780262523202
Subjects: Central government policies; Environmental impact of industrial disasters; Science; Environmental Studies; Science/Mathematics; Environmental Science; Industries - Energy Industries; Sociology - General; Science / Environmental Science; Industrial Management; California; Environmental aspects; Guadalupe Region; Oil spills; Petroleum industry and trade; Pollution; Public opinion
First sentence: Underneath the Guadalupe Dunes-a windswept piece of wilderness 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco-sits the largest petroleum spill in US history.
Description: Author examines the organizational culture of the Unocal Corporation (whose oil fields produced the leakage of the Exxon Valdez), the interorganizational response of regulatory agencies, and local interpretations of the event.