Table of Contents

Improving community responses to industrial disasters; responses to Minamata disease; environmental contamination, community transformation and the Centralia mine fire; Seveso - a paradoxical classic disaster; long-term recovery from the Bhopal crisis; Iranian recovery from industrial devastation during the war with Iraq; the Chernobyl disaster - its effect on Belarus and Ukraine; the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaska; signposts on the road to recovery.