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Blowout in the Gulf

The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America

By: William R. Freudenburg,Robert Gramling

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Blowout in the Gulf

The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America

By: William R. Freudenburg,Robert Gramling

The story of how a chain of failures, missteps, and bad decisions led to America's biggest environmental disaster. On April 20, 2010, the gigantic drilling rig Deepwater Horizon blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven crew members and causing a massive eruption of oil from BP's Macondo well. For months, oil gushed into the Gulf, spreading death and destruction. Americans watched real-time video of the huge column of oil and gas spewing from the obviously failed “blowout preventer.” What was missing, though, was the larger story of this disaster. In Blowout in the Gulf, energy experts William Freudenburg and Robert Gramling explain both the disaster and the decisions that led up to it. Blowout in the Gulf weaves a fascinating narrative of failures, missteps, and bad decisions, explaining why this oil spill was a disaster waiting to happen—and how making better energy choices will help prevent others like it.

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MIT Press

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0262294087

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9780262294089

Oil in Troubled Waters

Perceptions, Politics, and the Battle Over Offshore Drilling

By: William R. Freudenburg,Robert Gramling

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Oil in Troubled Waters

Perceptions, Politics, and the Battle Over Offshore Drilling

By: William R. Freudenburg,Robert Gramling

In some coastal regions of the United States, such as western Louisiana, offshore oil development has long been welcomed. In others, such as northern California, it has been vehemently opposed. This book explores the reasons behind this paradox, looking at the people, the regions, and the issues in sociological and historical contexts. What has been in very short supply on this issue, as in a growing number of other cases of technological gridlock, is balanced analysis. That is what this book provides. The authors' case studies, derived from interviews with Louisiana and California residents and from environmental impact statements, demonstrate that easy answers are not the most valid ones. The region that should be considered unusual, they find, is coastal Louisiana, where historical, social, and environmental factors combine to favor the offshore oil industry. But this combination of factors, they argue, is unlikely to be found in other coastal regions of the U.S. in the near future.

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200

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SUNY Press

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0791418812

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9780791418819

Paradoxes Of Western Energy Development

How Can We Maintain The Land And The People If We Develop?

By: Cyrus M Mckell,Donald G Browne,Elinor C. Cruze,William R Freudenburg

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Paradoxes Of Western Energy Development

How Can We Maintain The Land And The People If We Develop?

By: Cyrus M Mckell,Donald G Browne,Elinor C. Cruze,William R Freudenburg

Proposed energy resource development in the arid western United States raises a number of potential problems for an environment that does not have a great deal of resiliency. Projected population increases associated with large-scale development activities may go beyond the capacity of small, isolated rural communities to absorb them; and constraints on western agricultural and industrial development—for example, demands for water already exceeding the supply available—also limit energy development. The authors of this wide-ranging book first evaluate western energy resources, then objectively discuss the consequences of development on the region’s physical and social environments. Among the questions they consider are: Who will reap the economic benefits of development, and who will bear the environmental costs? What will be the effects on the environment? The social structure? The quality of life? Are open spaces a national treasure in their present form, or should they be regarded as space available for development? What are the unique demands of reclamation in the arid west? And, given the recent trend of western states-rights militancy and shifts of population to the southwest, what impact will new federal and state policies have on resource management?

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273

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Routledge

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1000311260

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9781000311266

Ideology, Social Theory, and the Environment

By: William D. Sunderlin

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Ideology, Social Theory, and the Environment

By: William D. Sunderlin

This book shows that polemical environmental and ecological debates are governed not so much by access to 'facts' as they are by the political ideology of the expert advancing a particular argument. Moreover, the thoughts of these experts tend to be based largely in just one of three competing streams of political thought: the left, the center, or the right. Drawing on social theory, the author explains the philosophical origins of this tendency to rely on just one of three traditions, and why this poses a serious obstacle to conceptualizing the cause, nature, and resolution of environmental problems.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742519708

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9780742519701

Blowout in the Gulf

The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America

By: William R. Freudenburg,Robert Gramling

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The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America

By: William R. Freudenburg,Robert Gramling

The story of how a chain of failures, missteps, and bad decisions led to America's biggest environmental disaster.

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0262015838

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Blowout in the Gulf

Blowout in the Gulf

Oil in Troubled Waters

Oil in Troubled Waters

Paradoxes Of Western Energy Development

Paradoxes Of Western Energy Development

Ideology, Social Theory, and the Environment

Ideology, Social Theory, and the Environment

Blowout in the Gulf

Blowout in the Gulf

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