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Waste Trading among Rich Nations: Building a New Theory of Environmental Regulation (American and Comparative Environmental Policy)
Waste Trading among Rich Nations Building a New Theory of Environmental Regulation - American and Comparative Environmental Policy
Author: Kate O'Neill
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...  more », 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
ISBN-13: 9780262650526
ISBN-10: 0262650525
Publication Date: 6/16/2000
Pages: 318
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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