Vila Socó is a "favela" (slum) in Cubatão, Brazil, that was the site of a major industrial oil spill fire on February 25, 1984. 700,000 liters of gas were released, 1,000 homes were destroyed, and 100 people died.[1] The geography of Cubatão prevented rapid dispersal of air pollutants released from the burning fuels.[2] The German sociologist Ulrich Beck used the case of Vila Socó ("The dirtiest chemical town in the world") as an example of the "destructive powers of the developed risk industry."[3]
References
edit- ^ Levinson, Arik; Shetty, Sudhir (1992-01-01). Efficient Environmental Regulation: Case Studies of Urban Air Pollution : Los Angeles, Mexico City, Cubatao, and Ankara. World Bank Publications. p. 38.
- ^ Spektor, D M; Hofmeister, V A; Artaxo, P; Brague, J A; Echelar, F; Nogueira, D P; Hayes, C; Thurston, G D; Lippmann, M (1991-08-01). "Effects of heavy industrial pollution on respiratory function in the children of Cubatao, Brazil: a preliminary report". Environmental Health Perspectives. 94: 51–54. doi:10.2307/3431292. ISSN 0091-6765. JSTOR 3431292. PMC 1567962. PMID 1954940.
- ^ Beck, Ulrich (1992-09-03). Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. SAGE. ISBN 9780803983465.
Further reading
edit- Levinson, Arik; Shetty, Sudhir (1992). Efficient environmental regulation: case studies of urban air pollution : Los Angeles, Mexico City, Cubatao, and Ankara. World Bank Publications. p. 37. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
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