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Book Synopsis International Trade in Recyclable and Hazardous Waste in Asia by : Michikazu Kojima
Download or read book International Trade in Recyclable and Hazardous Waste in Asia written by Michikazu Kojima and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little is known about the volume of international recycling in Asia, the problems caused and the struggle to properly manage the trade. This pathbreaking book addresses this gap in the literature, and provides a comprehensive overview of the internatio
Book Synopsis International Trade of Recyclable Resources in Asia by : Michikazu Kojima
Download or read book International Trade of Recyclable Resources in Asia written by Michikazu Kojima and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis North-South Trade in Recyclable Waste by : Nicholas Berger
Download or read book North-South Trade in Recyclable Waste written by Nicholas Berger and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Basel Conventions adoption of Decision II/I2 provides for a global ban on the North-South trade in recyclable wastes from the end of 1997. Taking the used lead battery market as a case study, this paper provides an analytical framework for examining the global and regional implications of the ban now in place. It shows that, when considering standard economic welfare the acceptance of Decision II/I2 necessarily reduces global welfare. However, when environmental externalities are taken into account, the global welfare results are less clear. Global welfare is enhanced if and only if the environmental welfare gains in the South more than offset the standard gains from trade loss in the South plus the combined standard and environmental welfare losses in the North. The paper concludes by arguing, firstly, that the ban on North-South trade should be removed and secondly, recycling waste importing countries should be able to determine their individual solutions to national environmental externalities based not on a globally enforced ban, but rather on their national economic challenges, environmental conditions, resource endowments and social preferences.
Book Synopsis International Trade in Hazardous Wastes by : D.K. Asante-Duah
Download or read book International Trade in Hazardous Wastes written by D.K. Asante-Duah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-03-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the need for a regulated and informed forum for international trade in hazardous waste. The authors argue that with careful planning, health and ecological risks can be minimized and net economic benefits realized fairly.
Book Synopsis Waste Trading among Rich Nations by : Kate O'Neill
Download or read book Waste Trading among Rich Nations written by Kate O'Neill and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000-06-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When most people think of hazardous waste trading, they think of egregious dumping by U.S. and European firms on poor countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. But over 80 percent of the waste trade takes place between industrialized nations and is legal by domestic and international standards. In Waste Trading among Rich Nations, Kate O'Neill asks why some industrialized nations voluntarily import such wastes in the absence of pressing economic need. She focuses on Britain as an importer and Germany as an exporter and also looks at France, Australia, and Japan. According to O'Neill, most important in determining whether an industrialized democracy imports waste are two aspects of its regulatory system. The first is the structure of the regulatory process—how powers and responsibilities are allocated among different agencies and levels of government—and the structure of the hazardous waste disposal industry. The second is what O'Neill calls the "style" of environmental regulation, in particular access to the policy process and mode of implementation. Hazardous waste management is in crisis in most industrialized countries and is becoming increasingly controversial in international negotiations. O'Neill not only examines waste trading empirically but also develops a theoretical model of comparative regulation that can be used to establish links between domestic and international environmental politics.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :56 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Exporting Toxic Trash by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment
Download or read book Exporting Toxic Trash written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :P.J. van Beukering Publisher :Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 13 :9780792368984 Total Pages :240 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (689 download)
Book Synopsis Recycling, International Trade and the Environment by : P.J. van Beukering
Download or read book Recycling, International Trade and the Environment written by P.J. van Beukering and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last century international trade has become indispensable for many economies. This is not only the case for trade in primary raw materials and consumer products but also for secondary (recyclable) materials. With the rapid growth of the recycling sector worldwide, trade in recyclables increased tremendously. It is striking that most of this trade flows from developed to developing countries. This book addresses the main causes of this typical trade pattern and investigates its economic and environmental effects by carrying out case studies on waste paper imports in India, waste plastics imports in China, and used-tyre trade in Europe. The book concludes by recommending policies that are aimed at preventing negative economic and environmental effects potentially resulting from trade in recyclables. The book offers new ideas to researchers who are involved in international trade, material flows, and waste management, and provides new insights for decision-makers who are interested in WTO and the Basel Convention.
Book Synopsis Electronic Waste Management by : Ronald E. Hester
Download or read book Electronic Waste Management written by Ronald E. Hester and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2009 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electronic waste contains toxic and carcinogenic compounds, which can pose a risk to the environment. This title discusses the directive and examines legislation in the USA and other parts of the world, considering the opportunities and threats posed by this form of waste.
Book Synopsis International Trade of Secondhand Goods by : Michikazu Kojima
Download or read book International Trade of Secondhand Goods written by Michikazu Kojima and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the flow of the international trade of secondhand goods and examines the socio-economic background and mechanisms of the trade. It highlights the actors involved in the trade of secondhand goods and how traditionally secondhand good have largely been traded through social or ethnic networks in order to effectively transfer quality and market information. The development of information technology and emergence of new information platforms have changed these business models. The policies and regulations relating to the trade of secondhand goods are explored, alongside the negative impact of these trades, and the growing awareness of the circular economy. This book illustrates how importing countries as well as international institutions have developed regulations in order to balance these two issues. It will relevant to students and economists interested in development economics and economics geography.
Download or read book Toxic Exports written by Jennifer Clapp and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, international trade in toxic waste and hazardous technologies by firms in rich industrialized countries has emerged as a routine practice. Many poor countries have accepted these deadly imports but are ill equipped to manage the materials safely. For more than a decade, environmentalists and the governments of developing countries have lobbied intensively and generated public outcry in an attempt to halt hazardous transfers from Northern industrialized nations to the Third World, but the practice continues.In her insightful and important book, Jennifer Clapp addresses this alarming problem. Clapp describes the responses of those engaged in hazard transfer to international regulations, and in particular to the 1989 adoption of the Basel Convention. She pinpoints a key weakness of the regulations—because hazard transfer is dynamic, efforts to stop one form of toxic export prompt new forms to emerge. For instance, laws intended to ban the disposal of toxic wastes in the Third World led corporations to ship these byproducts to poor countries for "recycling." And, Clapp warns, current efforts to prohibit this "recycling movement" may accelerate a new business endeavor: the relocation to poor countries of entire industries that generate toxic wastes.Clapp concludes that the dynamic nature of hazard transfer results from increasingly fluid global trade and investment relations in the context of a highly unequal world, and from the leading role played by multinational corporations and environmental NGOs. Governments, she maintains, have for too long failed to capture the initiative and have instead only reacted to these opposing forces.
Book Synopsis Electronic Waste mountain by : Naseer Ahmad Habibi
Download or read book Electronic Waste mountain written by Naseer Ahmad Habibi and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Informatik - Sonstiges, American University of Central Asia, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This paper explores answers to: what are the threats and negative impacts of E-waste toxic and hazardous substances to both human and environment; what should governments and businesses do to reduce the threat to human health and the environment from the increasing electronic wastes? Then, it clarifies what should be done by each individual in order to reduce the amount of E- waste? Afterward, it enlightens how E- waste can affect the environment and how does its primitive recycling in developing countries affect the health of men, women and children who do this without protection? Next, it explains what sustainable methods we could/should use in order to recycle or reuse E-wastes. Subsequently, it elucidates what should be done by companies which produce electronic items in order to reduce the amount of E- wastes? Finally, it discusses the methods of legal and illegal transfer of E-waste, and laws and regulations enforced by international environment community.
Book Synopsis Regulations and International Trade by : Etsuyo Michida
Download or read book Regulations and International Trade written by Etsuyo Michida and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates the evolution of regulatory policy in advanced countries and discusses how, due to globalization, policy changes in one country have a knock-on effect in others. Separated in two parts, the first half focuses on policy in developed countries and regulatory diffusion from Europe to Asia. The second part looks at the business impact of policy developments in a number of Southeast Asian countries. Key chapters discuss Thailand's response to EU chemical regulations, the diffusion of private food standards, and the effect of chemical safety standards in Malaysia and Vietnam. These contributions are written by leading scholars in the field and the book is likely to be of interest to students, researchers and policy makers concerned with regulation changes in East Asia.
Download or read book Exporting Harm written by Jim Puckett and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electronic waste or E-waste is the most rapidly growing waste problem in the world. It is a crisis of both quantity and a crisis born from toxic ingredients -- lead, beryllium, mercury, and cadmium that pose an occupational and environ'l. health threat. The U.S. and other rich economies that use most of the world's electronic products and generate most of the E-Waste, have exported the E-waste crisis to the developing countries of Asia. The open burning, acid baths and toxic dumping pour pollution into the land, air and water, and expose the poorer people of Asia to poison. The health and econ. costs of this trade are vast and are not born by the western consumers nor the waste brokers who benefit from the trade.
Book Synopsis Municipal Solid Waste Management in Asia and the Pacific Islands by : Agamuthu Pariatamby
Download or read book Municipal Solid Waste Management in Asia and the Pacific Islands written by Agamuthu Pariatamby and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solid waste management issues, technologies and challenges are dynamic. More so, in developing and transitory nations in Asia. This book, written by Asian experts in solid waste management, explores the current situation in Asian countries including Pacific Islands. There are not many technical books of this kind, especially dedicated to this region of the world. The chapters form a comprehensive, coherent investigation in municipal solid waste (MSW) management, including, definitions used, generation, sustainable waste management system, legal framework and impacts on global warming. Several case studies from Asian nations are included to exemplify the real situation experienced. Discussions on MSW policy in these countries and their impacts on waste management and minimization (if any) are indeed an eye-opener. Undoubtedly, this book would be a pioneer in revealing the latest situation in the Asian region, which includes two of the world’s most dynamic nations in the economic growth. It is greatly envisaged to form an excellent source of reference in MSW management in Asia and Pacific Islands. This book will bridge the wide gap in available information between the developed and transitory/developing nations.
Book Synopsis The International Toxic Waste Trade by : Christoph Hilz
Download or read book The International Toxic Waste Trade written by Christoph Hilz and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines current policies governing transboundary movement of hazardous waste and offers concrete recommendations for strengthening international regulations.
Book Synopsis Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes at the Interface of Environment and Trade by : Katharina Kummer
Download or read book Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes at the Interface of Environment and Trade written by Katharina Kummer and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989, environmental concerns led to the adoption of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes & their Disposal. This publication outlines some of the facts about the international hazardous waste trade, addressing the issue in the context of sustainable industrial activity in all countries. It also discusses the Basel Convention & looks at some aspects of the reconciliation of environmental & trade objectives in the regulation of the international hazardous waste trade.
Book Synopsis Waste and Discards in the Asia Pacific Region by : Viktor Pál
Download or read book Waste and Discards in the Asia Pacific Region written by Viktor Pál and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the Asia Pacific region, where impressive economic growth has led to significant increases in production, consumption and concomitant waste production. This volume demonstrates the immense scope of waste as a multi-sectoral phenomenon, covering discussions on food, menstrual products, sewage, electronics, scrap, nuclear waste, plastics, and even entire villages as they are submerged underwater by dam building, considered expendable in favour of economic growth. It discusses the wide range of approaches and contexts through which people interact with waste, including socio-economic analysis, participatory observation, laboratory science, art, video, installations, literature and photography. Case studies focusing on India, China and Japan, in addition to other regional examples, demonstrate the ubiquity of waste, materially and geographically. It examines the duality of waste management, fostering community building while simultaneously excluding marginalised groups; how it can be linked to efforts creating circular economies, to then reappear in oceanic garbage patches; or technical waste repurposed for high-tech laboratory research before being discarded once again. This timely and wide-ranging collection of essays will be an important read for scholars, researchers and students in sustainability, development studies, discard studies, and social and cultural history, particularly focusing on countries in the Asia-Pacific.
