The Maquiladoras and Toxics
Title | The Maquiladoras and Toxics PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Kochan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 18 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Environmental policy |
ISBN |
The Maquiladoras, a Potential Toxic Time Bomb
Title | The Maquiladoras, a Potential Toxic Time Bomb PDF eBook |
Author | Adolfo Fernandez |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Environmental law |
ISBN |
Summary of Information Collected from U.S. Parent Companies of Maquiladoras Relating to the New River
Title | Summary of Information Collected from U.S. Parent Companies of Maquiladoras Relating to the New River PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Factory and trade waste |
ISBN |
Maquiladora Standards of Conduct
Title | Maquiladora Standards of Conduct PDF eBook |
Author | Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Corporations, American |
ISBN |
The Mexican Maquila Industry and the Environment
Title | The Mexican Maquila Industry and the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Per Strömberg |
Publisher | Santiago, Chile : CEPAL=ECLAC |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
The Issue is Health
Title | The Issue is Health PDF eBook |
Author | Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Offshore assembly industry |
ISBN |
Toxic Exports
Title | Toxic Exports PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Clapp |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2018-10-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1501735934 |
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.