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Grabiel, Danielle Fest; Heiss, Robert George; Koparova, Meredith; Kopsick, Deborah; Ruessink, Henk --- "The Seaport Environmental Security Network: facilitating international enforcement collaboration to prevent illegal hazardous waste shipments through ports" [2015] ELECD 372; in Faure, Michael; De Smedt, Peter; Stas, An (eds), "Environmental Enforcement Networks" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) 289

Book Title: Environmental Enforcement Networks

Editor(s): Faure, Michael; De Smedt, Peter; Stas, An

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783477395

Section: Chapter 14

Section Title: The Seaport Environmental Security Network: facilitating international enforcement collaboration to prevent illegal hazardous waste shipments through ports

Author(s): Grabiel, Danielle Fest; Heiss, Robert George; Koparova, Meredith; Kopsick, Deborah; Ruessink, Henk

Number of pages: 14

Abstract/Description:

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries. The Basel Convention has been widely adopted, with 181 parties to the Basel Convention as of February 2014. The three main goals of the Basel Convention are: the reduction of hazardous waste generation and the promotion of environmentally sound anagement of hazardous wastes; the restriction of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes; and a regulatory system applying to cases where transboundary movements are permissible.