1st Edition
Dependent Convergence The Struggle to Control Petrochemical Hazards in Brazil and the United States
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 "Pólo PetroquÃmico de Camaçari"
APPENDIX 4. CETREL S.A. Environmental Policy
APPENDIX 5. Bayport Facility Industrial Users in 1997
Index
Biography
Carlos E. Siqueira
