Catastrophe - A Guide To World'S Worst Industrial Disasters

Disasters have been a menace throughout history. Earlier disasters were mainly due to natural happenings and unfortunate incidents like epidemics droughts earthquakes landslides floods wind storms etc. But with the rapid development of science and technology now disasters have become a part of our modern life. The apparent change in the scenario is that now besides natural disasters have emerged man-made disasters like industrial disasters. In fact Industrial Disasters are a real hazard nowadays; there is no country which is immune from disasters though vulnerability to disaster varies. The definition adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) terms a disaster as The result of a vast ecological breakdown in relations between man and his environment a serious and sudden (or slow as in drought) disruption on such a scale that the stricken community needs extraordinary efforts to cope with it often with outside help or international aid.In modern times perhaps the industrial disasters are the worst among all disasters. So there was a need for a comprehensive book on Industrial Disasters as a subject. This modest work is a meaningful effort in the same direction. This comprehensive study on Industrial Disasters in an academic manner has culminated into an exhaustive and exclusive work on the subject.