The Maquiladoras and Toxics
Author: Leslie Kochan
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 18
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Author: Leslie Kochan
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 18
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adolfo Fernandez
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 256
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 74
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Per Strömberg
Publisher: Santiago, Chile : CEPAL=ECLAC
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras
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Published: 1993
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jennifer Clapp
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1501735934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: John Burke Sullivan
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 1348
ISBN-13: 9780683080278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow in its revised and updated Second Edition, this volume is the most comprehensive and authoritative text in the rapidly evolving field of environmental toxicology. The book provides the objective information that health professionals need to prevent environmental health problems, plan for emergencies, and evaluate toxic exposures in patients.Coverage includes safety, regulatory, and legal issues; clinical toxicology of specific organ systems; emergency medical response to hazardous materials releases; and hazards of specific industries and locations. Nearly half of the book examines all known toxins and environmental health hazards. A Brandon-Hill recommended title.
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lester B. Lave
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1135996733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpon competition of a ten year research project which analyzes the effect of air pollution and death rates in US cities, Lester B. Lave and Eugene P. Seskin conclude that the mortality rate in the US could shrink by seven percent with a similar if not greater decline in disease incidence if industries followed EPA regulations in cutting back on certain pollutant emissions. The authors claim that this reduction is sufficient to add one year to average life expectancy. Originally published in 1977.