Author: Scott SeedalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Toxic Exports
Author: Jennifer ClappPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501735934
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
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.
The Toxic Trade War
Author: Scott SeedalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Toxic Trade
Author: Eric LotkeToxic Trade
Author: Dan CottonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780645791112
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When the father of a missing scientist asks an aging ex-NSW detective to find her. The last thing the cop expects, is to be dragged through the depraved underbelly of Australian politics. There is big money at stake for a West Australian billionaire who is a major political sponsor. He has a powerful control over the decisions of government and he expects his plans to stay on track. With only a few days left to the signing of contracts, any disruption to those plans must be eliminated.
The Control of Trade in Toxic Chemicals
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Environment DirectoratePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Toxic Trade
Author: Alan J. LealPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Pills, Pesticides & Profits
Author: Ruth NorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Abstract: This book discusses the international trade in toxic substances, specifically pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and hazardous wastes. Abuses, exploitation of uniformed consumers, and the double standard that says products considered unsafe for use in the industrialized world may be promoted and sold freely in the developing nations are discussed. Attempts to purchase rights to dump hazardous waste in third world countries and the marketing practices of infant formula manufacturers in third world countries are also examined.
Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens
Author: Richard P. PohanishPublisher: William Andrew
ISBN: 0815519044
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 2888
Book Description
For more than a quarter century, Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens has proven to be among the most reliable, easy-to-use and essential reference works on hazardous materials. Sittig's 5th Edition remains the lone comprehensive work providing a vast array of critical information on the 2,100 most heavily used, transported, and regulated chemical substances of both occupational and environmental concern.Information is the most vital resource anyone can have when dealing with potential hazardous substance accidents or acts of terror. Sittig's provides extensive data for each of the 2,100 chemicals in a uniform format, enabling fast and accurate decisions in any situation. The chemicals are presented alphabetically and classified as a carcinogen, hazardous substance, hazardous waste, or toxic pollutant. This new edition contains extensively expanded information in all 28 fields for each chemical (see table of contents) and has been updated to keep pace with world events. Chemicals classified as WMD have been included in the new edition as has more information frequently queried by first responders and frontline industrial safety personnel.*Includes and references European chemical identifiers and regulations.*The only single source reference that provides such in-depth information for each chemical.*The two volume set is designed for fast and accurate decision making in any situation.
Stop Toxic Trade
Author: Greenpeace AustraliaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781876221065
Category : Hazardous wastes
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
The International Toxic Waste Trade
Author: Christoph HilzPublisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Examines current policies governing transboundary movement of hazardous waste and offers concrete recommendations for strengthening international regulations.