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Trade for the Environment: Transboundary Hazardous Waste Movements after th Basel Convention
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Date&time:
August 4, 2017. (Friday) 12：30-14：00
Venue:
Theme:
Trade for the Environment: Transboundary Hazardous Waste Movements after th Basel Convention
Abstract
The Basel Convention treats hazardous wastes as pollutants and controls their adverse effects by minimizing their transboundary movements. This study questions the Basel Convention’s view of hazardous wastes as externalities and its use of trade restrictions as a means of promoting their proper treatment. Viewing hazardous wastes as industrial goods rather than pollutants, this paper explains why various countries participate in hazardous waste trade despite the Basel Convention. I argue that global economic integration has commodified hazardous wastes into tradable goods. I find that countries with higher levels of development are more likely to trade hazardous wastes and with higher levels of specialization, and this trade does not necessarily lead to a deterioration in environmental and public health. The growing hazardous waste market offers important insights that challenge the Basel Convention's trade-restriction approach and reveal its potential incompatibility with other international regimes on trade and environment.
Speaker：
Shiming
Yang
(University
of
Southern
California)
Chair:
Languages:
English
Institute
of
Developing
Economies,
APL
Organizers
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