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16 - Chemical Pollution and the Role of International Law in a Future Detoxified

from Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2021

By
Sabaa A. Khan
Edited by
Sumudu A. Atapattu ,
Carmen G. Gonzalez  and
Sara L. Seck
Sumudu A. Atapattu
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin School of Law
Carmen G. Gonzalez
Affiliation:
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Sara L. Seck
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia) Schulich School of Law
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This chapter explores the environmental justice dimensions of international trade in hazardous chemicals and waste. It considers the central argument of the environmental justice movement – according to which, marginalized populations have unwillingly assumed a disproportionate share of the toxic hazards produced throughout society1 – in the context of the global chemicals industry. Building on environmental sociological analyses of the international hazardous waste trade,2 the notion of environmental justice is conceptualized in the language of human and labor rights. This chapter aims to strengthen understanding of how the existing international legal regimes for regulating transboundary flows of toxic chemical substances influence the disproportionate impact of chemical pollution on vulnerable populations and ecosystems that is evidenced across the globe.3

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The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development , pp. 243 - 256
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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