Black beaches and bayous : the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster / edited by Lisa A. Eargle and Ashraf Esmail.

Includes bibliographical references.

The U.S. oil industry's safety record and the need for more domestic oil production / Jude Clemente -- Applying technological disaster process models to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster / Lisa A. Eargle ... [and others] -- Beyond petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico : the characteristics and consequences of catastrophe / John Barnshaw and Lynn Letukas -- Corporate catastrophes from UC Bhopal to BP Deepwater Horizon : continuities in causation, corporate negligence, and crisis management / Tomás Mac Sheoin and Stephen Zavestoski -- The effects of oil spills on ecological systems / Jeffrey R. Wozniak -- The Gulf oil spill, ecological debt, and environmental justice in Louisiana : lessons from sociology / Timothy J. Haney -- A new geography of trouble / Daina Cheyenne Harvey -- Ecological identity and disaster recovery in an oil-stained landscape : current and future policy implications / DeMond Shondell Miller, Jason David Rivera, and Brandon Eric Fleming -- The crude awakening : Gulf Coast residents reflect on the BP oil spill and the 2010 hurricane season / Michelle Meyer Lueck and Lori Peek -- The ninety-day storm : Mississippi community response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill / Jason S. Gordon and A.E. Luloff -- Disaster vulnerability : the differential impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster among Alabama's Gulf Coast residents / James Hawdon and John Ryan -- Disaster phases, structural vulnerability and crime / Kelly Frailing and Dee Wood Harper -- Hazard, outrage and locality : an analysis of two oil spills / Amanda K. Goddard, Kenneth A. Lachlan, and Patric R. Spence -- Resisting corporatism : citizens fight back against the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster / Stan C. Weeber -- Disaster distrust : risk assessment, citizen science and technolegal debates in the BP oil spill / Sabrina McCormick -- The President, the news, and the oil spill : an examination of national and state newspapers' framing of Obama and his administration's response to the Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill / Jas M. Sullivan and Meghan S. Sanders.

This title provides a multidisciplinary, international perspective on one of the major disaster events within the United States during the last ten years. Scholars from various disciplines including sociology, political science, ecology, psychology, and criminal justice investigate the different components and issues associated with this event.