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MAJOR CHEMICAL ACCIDENTS IN INDUSTRIALIZING COUNTRIES: THE SOCIO-POLITICAL AMPLIFICATION OF RISK
Socio‐Political Amplification Of Risk
Chemical Industry
Industrializing Countries
Industrialized Countries
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca. Centro de Estudos da Saúde do Trabalhador e Ecologia Humana. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca. Centro de Estudos da Saúde do Trabalhador e Ecologia Humana. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca. Centro de Estudos da Saúde do Trabalhador e Ecologia Humana. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Resumen en ingles
Accidents in the chemical industry, such as those that took place in Seveso (1976) and Bhopal (1984), may kill or injure thousands of people, cause serious health hazards and irreversible environmental damage. The aim of this paper is to examine the ever-increasing risk of similar accidents becoming a frequent ocurrence in the so-called industrializing countries. Using figures from some of the worst chemical accidents in the last decades, data on the Bhopal disaster, and Brazil's social and institutional characteristics, we put forward the hypothesis that present social, political and economic structures in industrializing countries make these countries much more vulnerable to such accidents and create the type of setting where--if and when these accidents occur--they will have even more catastrophic consequences. The authors argue that only the transformation of local structures, and stronger technical cooperation between international organizations, industrialized and industrializing countries could reduce this vulnerability.
Palabras clave en ingles
Major Chemical AccidentsSocio‐Political Amplification Of Risk
Chemical Industry
Industrializing Countries
Industrialized Countries
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