GGR378H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Floating Production Storage And Offloading, Lois Gibbs, Bhopal Disaster
Document Summary
Technological hazards: characteristics of technological hazards, difference between technological and anthropogenic hazards, four short case studies: Technological hazards: anthropogenic hazards arising from the interaction of social, environmental, and technological systems. Note that anthropogenic hazards can be natural hazards caused, accelerated, or exacerbated by human activity. This is different from technological hazards but the distinction is very blurry. Technological hazards: risk is increasing as a result of: Increased number and variety of industrial processes and products. Increased use of hazardous materials for purposes of terrorism. Technological hazards: natural hazards can cause or exacerbate technological disasters. Dam collapse caused by flooding: in turn, social/technological factors can cause or exacerbate natural disasters. Purely accidental: collapse and sinking of an off-shore oil drilling rig during a freak storm. Purely intentional: oil wells bombed by iraqi army during retreat from kuwait during persian gulf war, wtc collapse. Somewhere in-between (lack of preparation or negligence: bp gulf of mexico oil spill, bhopal gas release.
