Dependent Convergence

The Struggle to Control Petrochemical Hazards in Brazil and the United States

Carlos E. Siqueira (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-78433-7 (ISBN)

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Comparative analyses of social actors and policy outcomes in Bahia and Texas show the similarities and differences in the actors and the policies. The author makes recommendations for stronger international solidarity among progressive forces in developed and developing countries to promote preventive alternatives to pollution control.

Comparative analyses of social actors and policy outcomes in Bahia and Texas show the similarities and differences in the actors and the policies adopted in each case. As a result of historical and structural developments in Bahia and Texas, Cetrel operates under pollution-control standards and technologies for protecting the environment and workers that are similar to those of the GCA. This convergent trend is characterized as dependent convergence between developing and developed countries. The author makes recommendations for stronger international solidarity among progressive forces in developed and developing countries to promote preventive alternatives to pollution control.

Dr. C. Eduardo Siqueira is Associate Professor in the School for the Environment (SFE) at UMass Boston.

Introduction

CHAPTER 1. Migration of Hazards: The Viewpoint of Actors in a Newly Industrializing Country

CHAPTER 2. One Industry, Two Complexes, Two Companies

CHAPTER 3. Twenty Years of Petrochemical Production in Bahia

CHAPTER 4. Benzeno A Vista (Benzene Ho!): The Work Environment Crises of COPEC

CHAPTER 5. Environmental Management Policies in Cetrel: A Case Study of the Implementation of Pollution Control Policies in the Periphery

CHAPTER 6. Environmental Management Policies in the Gulf Coast Authority: A Case Study of Pollution Control Policies in the Center

CHAPTER 7. Dependent Convergence: Comparing Cetrel and GCA Histories

APPENDIX 1. Research Design

APPENDIX 2. The Petrochemical Industry

APPENDIX 3. Time line of the History of the "PÃ³lo PetroquÃmico de CamaÃ§ari"

APPENDIX 4. CETREL S.A. Environmental Policy

APPENDIX 5. Bayport Facility Industrial Users in 1997

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.02.2017
Reihe/Serie	Work, Health and Environment Series
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	385 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	0-415-78433-6 / 0415784336
ISBN-13	978-0-415-78433-7 / 9780415784337
Zustand	Neuware