Vila Parisi

Vila Parisi is a "favela" (slum) in Cubatão, Brazil, that was the site of a major industrial oil spill fire on February 25, 1984. The German sociologist Ulrich Beck used the case of Vila Parisi ("The dirtiest chemical town in the world") as an example of the "destructive powers of the developed risk industry."

References

• Beck, U. (1992). Risk society: Towards a new modernity. London: Sage.

Further reading

• 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.