The Politics of Toxic Waste

The Politics of Toxic Waste
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1998
Genre: Hazardous wastes
ISBN:

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The Politics of Hazardous Waste Management

The Politics of Hazardous Waste Management
Author: James P. Lester
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1983
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

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EcoPopulism

EcoPopulism
Author: Andrew Szasz
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 238
Release:
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781452902722

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In the popular politics of hazardous waste, Andrew Szasz finds an answer, a scenario for taking the most pressing environmental issues out of the academy and the boardroom and turning them into everyone's business. This work reconstructs the growth of a powerful movement around the question of toxic waste. Szasz follows the issue as it moves from the world of "official" policy-making, onto television and into popular consciousness, and then into neighbourhoods, spurring on the formation of thousands of local, community-based groups. He shows how, in less than a decade, a rich infrastructure of more permanent social organizations emerged from this movement, expanding its focus to include issues like municipal waste, military toxics, and pesticides. Szasz identifies the force that pushed environmental policy away from the traditional approach - pollution removal - toward the superior logic of pollution prevention. He discusses the conflicting official responses to the movement's evolution, revealing that, despite initial resistance, law-makers eventually sought to appease popular discontent by strengthening toxic waste laws. In its success, Szasz suggests, this movement may even prove to be the vehicle for reinvigorating progressive politics.

Hazardous Politics

Hazardous Politics
Author: John J. Pitney (Jr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 173
Release: 1985
Genre: Hazardous waste treatment facilities
ISBN:

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Uses the case of hazardous waste facility siting to explain why the American political system is hard put to overcome local opposition. The fragmentation of political authority gives local opponents many routes of attack, just as it gives officials many ways to avoid responsibility.

Hazardous Waste Politics and Policy

Hazardous Waste Politics and Policy
Author: Charles E. Davis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1985
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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Toxic Exports

Toxic Exports
Author: Jennifer Clapp
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501735934

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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.

Love Canal

Love Canal
Author: Adeline Levine
Publisher: Free Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1982
Genre: Science
ISBN:

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A Hazardous Landscape

A Hazardous Landscape
Author: Andrew Kirby
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1985
Genre:
ISBN:

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Toxic Waste and Human Rights

Toxic Waste and Human Rights
Author: Cyril Uchenna Gwam
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 1452026882

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This book discusses the adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of hazardous, toxic, and dangerous wastes and products in developing countries, and the effect of such activities on the enjoyment of human rights, more from the perspective of the resolutions of the former United Nations (UN) Commission on Human Rights (CHR). It is now called Human Rights Council. This study stands for the proposition that the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous wastes and products adversely affect the environment and human rights to life and health. It illustrates that dumpers are mainly transnational corporations. It demonstrates that, although the international community is aware of the effects of toxic wastes dumping on human rights, there exist certain factors militating against the full implementation of CHR resolutions on toxic wastes. These factors are: the politics of human rights, and the politics of first and second generation rights; the inequity of international legal instruments; the lack of will or commitment of certain states to comply with their international obligations; the attitude of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) towards the Special Rapporteur on Toxic Wastes; the status of international human rights laws; and the legal status of the CHR's resolutions. However, despite the difficulties in implementing the CHR's resolutions, the study supports the proposition that dumpers should be prosecuted for criminal activities in accordance with the state's domestic laws. Victims should be able to receive compensation for physical and emotional injuries, economic loss, and substantial impairment of their fundamental rights resulting from human rights violations. Specifically, developing countries should construct domestic legal system to protect such fundamental rights.