Policy Regimes for the International Waste Trade |
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| Authors: | Roy W. Shin Laura A. Strohm |
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| Affiliation: | Roy W. Shin is Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. He is the author of several articles on the transboundary movement of hazardous waste and its environmental impact. His current research involves studying the effects of foreign direct investment.;Laura A. Strohm is Assistant Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. Her research interests encompass trade and environmental issues, hazardous trade, sustainable development, corporate environmentalism, and international environmental agreements and organizations. |
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| Abstract: | Among the unforeseen problems of the new industrial age has been the disposal of increasing quantities of wastes—many hazardous and toxic. Industrial chemistry has produced numerous products that, while useful, are alien to nature and resistant to biodegradation or detoxification. Growing public awareness of the possible hazards and risks involved in disposal of the residuals of industrial activities is arousing a popular demand for environmental protection. But this popular awareness depends upon public information and a degree of scientific literacy—conditions which vary widely among nations. Initial consequences are environmental regulations and restrictions respecting waste disposal in scientifically developed countries, and vulnerability among less developed countries to the export of hazardous wastes from the countries of their origin. A secondary consequence is the emergence of international waste trade as a national and international multidimensional policy problem. |
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