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

by Jennifer Clapp

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080143887X
• ISBN13: 9780801438875
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher