Waste Trading Among Rich Nations: Building a New Theory of Environmental Regulation

by Kate O'Neill

Book Overview

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, Kate O'Neill asks why some industrialized nations voluntarily import such wastes in the absence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262650525
• ISBN13: 9780262650526
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher