Disaster Hunting
A disaster can be natural, man-made or technological hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be defined as any events such as earthquakes, floods, fires, or explosions. It is a phenomenon that can cause damage to life and property and destroy the economic, social and cultural life of people
Here we are discussing about Man-made disaster. Man-made disasters are the consequence of technological or human hazards. Examples are fires, transport accidents, industrial accidents, oil spills and nuclear explosions/radiation. War and deliberate attacks can also be put in this category. As with natural hazards, man-made hazards are events that have not happened, for instance terrorism. Man-made disasters are examples of specific cases where man-made hazards have become reality in an event.(1)
Industrial disasters occur in a commercial context, such as mining accidents. They often have an environmental impact. The Bhopal disaster is the world 's worst industrial disaster to date, and the Chernobyl disaster is regarded the worst nuclear accident in history. Hazards may have longer-term and more dispersed effects, such as dioxin and DDT poisoning.(2)
The Bhopal disaster
In the fall of 2002, Greenpeace campaigner Casey Harell paid a surprise visit to the New York State private estate of Warren Anderson, and found him living a “life of luxury”. Nothing odd about the discovery except that in the eyes of the law Mr. Anderson was untraceable, and had been so since 1992 when an Indian court, exasperated by his refusal to heed multiple summons for trial, declared him a fugitive from justice.(3)
Mr. Anderson was chairman and chief executive officer of the United States-headquartered Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) at the time of the lethal December 2-3 methyl isocyanate leak from Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal and faced
Here we are discussing about Man-made disaster. Man-made disasters are the consequence of technological or human hazards. Examples are fires, transport accidents, industrial accidents, oil spills and nuclear explosions/radiation. War and deliberate attacks can also be put in this category. As with natural hazards, man-made hazards are events that have not happened, for instance terrorism. Man-made disasters are examples of specific cases where man-made hazards have become reality in an event.(1)
Industrial disasters occur in a commercial context, such as mining accidents. They often have an environmental impact. The Bhopal disaster is the world 's worst industrial disaster to date, and the Chernobyl disaster is regarded the worst nuclear accident in history. Hazards may have longer-term and more dispersed effects, such as dioxin and DDT poisoning.(2)
The Bhopal disaster
In the fall of 2002, Greenpeace campaigner Casey Harell paid a surprise visit to the New York State private estate of Warren Anderson, and found him living a “life of luxury”. Nothing odd about the discovery except that in the eyes of the law Mr. Anderson was untraceable, and had been so since 1992 when an Indian court, exasperated by his refusal to heed multiple summons for trial, declared him a fugitive from justice.(3)
Mr. Anderson was chairman and chief executive officer of the United States-headquartered Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) at the time of the lethal December 2-3 methyl isocyanate leak from Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal and faced
References: 1. Article from Wikipedia "Disaster". Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster. Accessed 2013 January 15 2. Article from Wikipedia " Man-made_disasters". Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-made_disasters. Accessed 2013 January 15 3. Vidya Subrahmaniam, "Bhopal gas disaster: Hunting the corporate killers", Environment and India, December 3, 2009. Available from: http://www.asianwindow.com/environment/bhopal-gas-disaster-hunting-the-corporate-killers/. Accessed 2013 January 15