Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America
- ISBN-10
- 0262015838
- ISBN-13
- 9780262015837
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 254
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Authors
- Robert Gramling, William R. Freudenburg
Description
Explains both the disaster and the decisions that led up to it and argues that for the future the emphasis needs to be on prevention and that risk-management policies be based on better understandings of humans and hardware.
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