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Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries

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Description for Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 5. BIC Classification: KCLT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 342.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801476495
SKU
V9780801476495
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-1

About Jennifer Clapp
Jennifer Clapp is CIGI Chair in International Governance and Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo. She is the author of Adjustment and Agriculture in Africa: Farmers, the State, and the World Bank in Guinea and the coauthor of Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment.

Reviews for Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries
Clapp examines the transfer of hazardous wastes and technologies from rich to poor countries, focusing on the sources that contribute to that transfer, as well as the political responses to it.
SciTech BookNews
Jennifer Clapp's Toxic Exports is the definitive scholarly work on this subject. Clapp provides an engaging account of waste export and hazardous technology transfer problems ... Read more

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