The Bamako Convention and the first meeting of the parties: A glance at implementation strategies

Review of European Community and International Environmental Law

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 256-263

  Eguh, Edna C ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAZARDOUS WASTE; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; TRADE POLICY; WASTE DISPOSAL;

AFRICA;

EID: 0032452035     PISSN: 09628797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9388.00157     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. A Greenpeace Press Release (4 February 1998) reports that huge amounts of PVC waste produced in the Netherlands are regularly shipped to Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines.
2. United Nations Environmental Protection (UNEP) Press Release, 27 February 1998.
3. Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, 22 March 1989, in force 24 May 1992; (1989) 28 ILM 649 [hereinafter Basel Convention].
4. See Jennifer Clapp: 'The toxic waste trade with less-industrialized countries: economic linkages and political alliances', Third World Quarterly, 15:3 (1994), at 505.
5. See also Roy W. Shin and Laura A. Strohm: 'Policy Regimes for the International Waste Trade', Policy Studies Review, (1993) 226.