Communities At Risk: Collective Responses to Technological Hazards (Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI Studies)) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820407127 ISBN 13: 9780820407128

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1991

Synopsis

Communities in ever increasing numbers are facing the ravages of a modern form of calamity, the chronic technical disaster. Unlike natural disasters that strike quickly and disappear, chronic technical disasters, such as chemical or radiation contamination, slowly unfold, trapping communities in seemingly never ending cycles of threat and disorganization. The articles comprising this volume analyze community responses to a type of aversive agent for which there is neither tradition nor formal policy to insure an adequate repertoire of responses.

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About the Author

The Editors: Stephen Robert Couch is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Penn State's Schuylkill Campus. He has published numerous articles dealing with the sociology of the arts, social history, immigration and ethnicity, and most recently, environmental disasters. He has co-edited two books of articles dealing with recent immigration to the United States and, with Steve Kroll-Smith, co-authored a book on the Centralia, Pennsylvania, coal mine fire.
Steve Kroll-Smith is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Penn State University, Hazleton Campus. His work in ritual and belief studies has appeared in leading anthropology, history, and sociology journals. In the past several years he has worked on environmental disasters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820407127
• ISBN 13: 9780820407128
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Kroll-Smith Stephen, Couch Stephen Robert