WorldViews WAIS Contents

WorldViews WAIS contains more than 2800 annotated bibliographical records drawn from the 1994-1995 edition of the Third World Resource Directory and from recent issues of WorldViews (formerly Third World Resources). The fulltext database contains records of print and audiovisual resource materials from around the world on a broad range of regions, countries, and current affairs topics.

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A typical entry from the WorldViews WAIS database is:

TITL=The Waste Invasion of Asia: A Greenpeace Inventory
IAUT=Simon Divecha et al., eds.
PUBL=Greenpeace USA
CITY=Washington, DC
DATE=January 1994
PAGS=94 pp.
CONT=Executive summary, case studies.
DESC="Locked out of most of the rest of the world," this Greenpeace 
report explains, "waste traffickers are making a last-ditch effort 
to preserve a welcome home for the industrialised world's waste 
in Asia."

_The Waste Invasion of Asia_ opens with an overview of the scope 
of the problem and an explanation of the origins of toxic-waste 
dumping on a global scale. The report identifies the major industrial 
nations--the "Sinister Seven"--who are most responsible for the export 
of hazardous wastes and then presents two lengthy case studies to 
illustrate the pattern of waste shipments to Asia. The case studies 
involve plastics recycling in Asia and the dumping of incinerator 
ash from Philadelphia in the Indian Ocean.

The bulk of this invaluable report is given to an inventory of "schemes 
and national policies" on a country-by-country basis (from Australia 
to Vietnam). Most of the seventeen country profiles contain information 
in three categories: national policy; waste import statistics; and 
waste import schemes.

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