Bhopal Gas Tragedy – A Social, Economic, Legal and Environmental Analysis

Malini Nair

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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine the economic and legal aspects of the difficulties in obtaining compensation of chemical disaster that occurred India, when the parent company is located in the United States. After this disaster, several laws regulating chemical plant operation became mandatory in both US and in India.

Keywords: Bhopal; chemical disaster; legal aspects of a chemical disaster; economic aspects of a chemical disaster (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 K32 O14 P16 Q53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-12-10
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