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    Wide Area Information Server

    The Institute for Global Communications (IGC) is hosting more than 2800 fully annotated bibliographic records in its Wide Area Information Server or WAIS (pronounced "ways"). The records were all developed by WorldViews and have been published in either the organization's quarterly magazine or in directories such as the Third World Resource Directory 1994-95.

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    The following is an example of a typical WorldViews WAIS record: 

    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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    Resource guides on other issues will be added on a regular basis. Watch for notices in the "What's New" section of the WorldViews home page (http://www.igc.org/worldviews/).

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