Regulating toxic chemicals, pesticides, and hazardous wastes: A TWAIL approach to the BRS legal regime for a detoxified future

Puthucherril, Tony George (2020) Regulating toxic chemicals, pesticides, and hazardous wastes: A TWAIL approach to the BRS legal regime for a detoxified future. In: Routledge handbook of international environmental law. 2 ed. Routledge, London, pp. 189-202. ISBN 9781003137825

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Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of the international legal regime governing hazardous wastes (Basel Convention), toxic chemicals and pesticides (Rotterdam Convention), and persistent organic pollutants (Stockholm Convention) or the BRS legal regime in short. By employing a Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) lens, it unpacks, deconstructs, assesses, and rationalises the rule-oriented basis of this legal regime. It identifies reasons for its efficacy/non-efficacy as against a scenario where chemicals, pesticides, and hazardous wastes that are banned, or severely restricted in developed countries, are exported to, or are produced in developing countries that follow lax environmental law standards resulting in environmental degradation and human misery. Keeping these objectives in focus, the chapter concludes by offering an assessment as to what portends for the future of this regime.

Item Type: Book Section
Keywords: International legal regime | Hazardous wastes | Basel convention | Rotterdam convention | Toxic chemicals and pesticides
Subjects: Physical, Life and Health Sciences > Environmental Science, Policy and Law
JGU School/Centre: Jindal Global Law School
Depositing User: Mr. Syed Anas
Date Deposited: 25 Mar 2022 14:30
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2022 14:30
Official URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.432...
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/1819

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