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13 RISK 1 (2002)
Environmental Risk Analysis: Problems and Perspectives in Different Countries

handle is hein.journals/risk13 and id is 5 raw text is: Environmental Risk Analysis: Problems and Perspectives in Different Countries Bhola Ram Gurjar and Manju Mohan* Introduction A number of industrial accidents, such as those at Flixborough in 1974, Seveso in 1976, Bhopal in 1984, and Pasadena in 1989, have led to growing concerns about the potential hazards and risks involved in chemical process industries.1 Such industrial accidents not only cause huge monetary losses and severe damages to infrastructure, but also result in serious injury or death to people within and beyond the immediate vicinity of the work place. The top fifteen industrial disasters based on fatality estimates, which occurred between 1945 and 1998 in different countries, are shown in Table 1.2 * Bhola R. Gurjar is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, Mainz, Germany. E-mail: gurjar@mpch-mainz.mpg.de. M. Mohan is affiliated with the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. E-mail: mmohan6@hotmail.com. The authors are grateful to the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) and Prof. Dr. Jos Leliveld, Director of the Air-Chemistry Division, MPIC, Germany, for providing all of the necessary support and encouragement during the revision of this paper. Earlier support was provided by the Technical Teachers' Training Institute, Chandigarh, India, while the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India is also acknowledged. The authors extend their special thanks to the anonymous referees and Mr. Samudra Vijay (MIT, U.S.) for' their constructive and objective suggestions that have helped improve the manuscript. The opinions expressed in this paper are solely those of the authors. These do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the authors' affiliated organizations. 1 Irene Kim et al., Risk and the Chemical Process Industry, Chemical Engineering (February 1995); F.I. Khan & S.A. Abbasi, Risk Assessment in Chemical Process Industries: Advanced Techniques (Discovery Publishing House 1998). 2 Susan L. Cutter, Fleeingjrom Harm: International Trends in Evacuations from Chemical Accidents, 9 International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 267 (1991); Susan L. Cutter, Living with Risk: The Geography of Technological Hazards (Edward Arnold 1993); Environmental Risks and Hazards (Susan L. Cutter ed., Prentice-Hall of India 1999); Theodore S. Glickman et al., Acts of God and Acts of Man: Recent Trends in Natural Disasters and Major Industrial Accidents, Discussion Paper CRM 92-02 (Centre for Risk Management 1992). 13 Risk Health, Safety & Environment 1 [Spring 2002

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