Awards

• Winner of APSA Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section Lynton Keith Caldwell Award 2002
• Winner of APSA Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section Lynton Keith Caldwell Award 2002.

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"When most people think of hazardous waste trading, they think of egregious dumping by US 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 of pressing economic need. She focuses on Britain as an importer and Germany as an exporter and also looks at France, Australia and Japan. According to O'Neill, most important in determining whether an industrialized democracy imports waste are two aspects of its regulatory process - how powers and responsibilities are allocated among different agencies and levels of government - and the structure of the hazardous waste disposal industry. The second is what O'Neill calls the ""style"" of environmental regulation, in particular access to the policy process and mode of implementation. Hazardous waste management is in crisis in most industrialized countries and is becoming increasingly controversial in international negotiations. O'Neill not only examines waste trading empirically but also develops a theoretical model of comparative regulation that can be used to establish links between domestic and international environmental politics."

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