Books written by William R. Freudenburg
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Oil in Troubled Waters: Perceptions, Politics, and the Battle Over Offshore Drilling
Wilkinson, Kenneth P., James G. Thompson, Robert R. Reynolds, Jr. and Laurence M. Ostresh. 1982. "Local Social Disruption and Western Energy Development: A Critical Review." Pacific Sociological Review 25:275-96. Wilson, E. 1982.
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Oil in Troubled Waters: Perceptions, Politics, and the Battle Over Offshore Drilling
In others, such as northern California, it has been vehemently opposed. This book explores the reasons behind this paradox, looking at the people, the regions, and the issues in sociological and historical contexts.
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Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America
The story of how a chain of failures, missteps, and bad decisions led to America's biggest environmental disaster.
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Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America
Explains both the disaster and the decisions that led up to it and argues that for the future the emphasis needs to be on prevention and that risk-management policies be based on better understandings of humans and hardware.
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Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow
That’s the provocative theory of Catastrophe in the Making, the first book to recognize Hurricane Katrina not as a “perfect storm,” but a tragedy of our own making—and one that could become commonplace.
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Research in Social Problems and Public Policy
"Research in Social Problems and Public Policy" seeks to improve the balance by adding a focus on important and powerful institutions.
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The Organizational Response to Social Problems
The chapters in this volume examine these organizational changes.
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Paradoxes of Western Energy Development: How Can We Maintain the Land and the People If We Develop?
The authors of this wide-ranging book first evaluate western energy resources, then objectively discuss the consequences of development on the region's physical and social environments.
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Research in Social Problems and Public Policy
Research in Social Problems and Public Policy
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Oil in Troubled Waters: Perceptions, Politics, and the Battle Over Offshore Drilling
Catton, William R., Jr. 1989. “Cargoism and Technology and the Relationship of these ... In B. Staw and L. L. Cummings. eds., Research in Organizational Behavior, 303-57. Greenwich. CT: JAI. Cincin-Sain, Biliana and Robert Knecht.
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Research in social problems and public policy: A research annual
Research in social problems and public policy: A research annual
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Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow
That’s the provocative theory of Catastrophe in the Making, the first book to recognize Hurricane Katrina not as a “perfect storm,” but a tragedy of our own making—and one that could become commonplace.