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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.
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 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 202 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. The book examines the key parameters that should be considered by potential trading nations to ensure an optimally safe and mutually beneficial partnership. The authors provide comprehensive coverage of the political, environmental, industrial and economic issues involved in this complex and increasingly controversial practice.
Book Synopsis The International Trade in Wastes by : Jim Vallette
Download or read book The International Trade in Wastes written by Jim Vallette and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Book Synopsis An Investigation of the International Toxic Waste Trade by : Christoph Hilz
Download or read book An Investigation of the International Toxic Waste Trade written by Christoph Hilz and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Plastic Waste Trade by : Sedat Gündoğdu
Download or read book Plastic Waste Trade written by Sedat Gündoğdu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Want Not, Waste Not by : Mark Alan Montgomery
Download or read book Want Not, Waste Not written by Mark Alan Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greenpeace Waste Trade Update written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Environmental Politics of the International Waste Trade by : Laura A. Strohm
Download or read book The Environmental Politics of the International Waste Trade written by Laura A. Strohm and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Global Dumping Ground by : Bill D. Moyers
Download or read book Global Dumping Ground written by Bill D. Moyers and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the dangers facing our planet due to the lucrative and scandal-ridden business of trafficking in hazardous waste. Too often, the industrial world's worst poisons end up in countries where regulations are weak and seldom enforced. No country figures more prominently in this trade than the United States, which--as the world's top producer of hazardous waste--generates more than 500 million tons annually. In what amounts to the export of Love Canal, hazardous cargoes from America--used car batteries, dry cleaning fluids, banned pesticides, and the like--find dumpsites in the developing nations.
Book Synopsis The Toxic Ship by : Simone M. Müller
Download or read book The Toxic Ship written by Simone M. Müller and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a two-year journey, roaming the world's oceans in search of a dumping ground. Its initial destination and then country after country refused to accept the waste. The ship ended up dumping part of its load in Haiti under false pretenses, and the remaining waste was illegally dumped in the ocean. Two shipping company officials eventually received criminal convictions. Simone M. Müller uses the Khian Sea's voyage as a lens to elucidate the global trade in hazardous waste—the movement of material ranging from outdated consumer products and pesticides to barges filled with all sorts of toxic discards—from the 1970s to the present day, exploring the story's international nodes and detailing the downside of environmental conscientiousness among industrial nations as waste is pushed outward. Müller also highlights the significance of the trip's start in Philadelphia, a city with a significant African American population. The geographical origins shed light on environmental racism within the United States in the context of the global story of environmental justice. Activism in response to the ship's journey set an important precedent, and this book brings together the many voices that shaped the international trade in hazardous waste.
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 Overcoming National Barriers to International Waste Trade:A New Perspective on the Transnational Movement of Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes by : Elli Louka
Download or read book Overcoming National Barriers to International Waste Trade:A New Perspective on the Transnational Movement of Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes written by Elli Louka and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international trade in hazardous and radioactive waste to developing countries with inadequate infrastructure and lenient environmental laws has grown during recent decades and has been the target of public opposition in both developed and developing countries. This book contains a comprehensive analysis of the pertinent international legislation, as well as a comparative analysis of the European and the United States legislation and policies.
Book Synopsis The International Hazardous Waste Trade by : Mary Patricia Thornton
Download or read book The International Hazardous Waste Trade written by Mary Patricia Thornton and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Calls for National Intervention in the Toxic Waste Trade to Africa by : Antonius Rickson Hippolyte
Download or read book Calls for National Intervention in the Toxic Waste Trade to Africa written by Antonius Rickson Hippolyte and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an issue of global importance, this article aims to focus on the international toxic waste trade to African countries. International toxic waste trade “involves the trans-boundary movement of hazardous substances from one country to another.” Its bearing on environmental justice stems from the fact that industrialized countries have endorsed the idea of transferring the 'burden' of their industrial output to developing countries, essentially turning these countries into 'trash bins'. Notwithstanding that such countries are least capable of harboring such waste securely. Academics argue that the genesis of this injustice is twofold. Firstly, the lenient environmental laws of these developing countries make them attractive for and conducive to uncontrolled toxic waste dumping, as it is more cost-effective to dump in a developing country. The second factor is the prevalent need for fiscal relief in the developing world, which leads governments to accept even officially sanctioned payments in return for harboring such waste. This article argues that regulation of the 'waste trade' will prove pivotal in the struggle for environmental justice in these countries. Even though complete limitation cannot be achieved, regulation will see that such waste is dealt with safely; embracing citizen's rights to the environment.
Book Synopsis Resisting Global Toxics by : David Naguib Pellow
Download or read book Resisting Global Toxics written by David Naguib Pellow and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-08-10 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them. Every year, nations and corporations in the “global North” produce millions of tons of toxic waste. Too often this hazardous material—inked to high rates of illness and death and widespread ecosystem damage—is exported to poor communities of color around the world. In Resisting Global Toxics, David Naguib Pellow examines this practice and charts the emergence of transnational environmental justice movements to challenge and reverse it. Pellow argues that waste dumping across national boundaries from rich to poor communities is a form of transnational environmental inequality that reflects North/South divisions in a globalized world, and that it must be theorized in the context of race, class, nation, and environment. Building on environmental justice studies, environmental sociology, social movement theory, and race theory, and drawing on his own research, interviews, and participant observations, Pellow investigates the phenomenon of global environmental inequality and considers the work of activists, organizations, and networks resisting it. He traces the transnational waste trade from its beginnings in the 1980s to the present day, examining global garbage dumping, the toxic pesticides that are the legacy of the Green Revolution in agriculture, and today's scourge of dumping and remanufacturing high tech and electronics products. The rise of the transnational environmental movements described in Resisting Global Toxics charts a pragmatic path toward environmental justice, human rights, and sustainability.
