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Pollution Havens and the Transfer of Environmental Risk

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The pollution haven debate fractures along three fault lines: scope, methodology, and values. The scope of the pollution havens question must go beyond the original definition (intentional use of lax environmental regulations to attract foreign investment) to include a broader assessment of the transfer of environmental risk. Whether attributed to governmental policy or to the behavior of firms, or both, environmental risk can be transferred as hazardous products, processes, wastes, or displaced resource extraction. Researchers mistrust each other's methodologies, especially as the conventional economic analyses consider value discussions about global environmental justice issues outside their jurisdiction. This author questions whether the transfer of environmental risk is the result of sovereign risk assessment, consciously exchanging cost for adequate compensation; or alternatively, an unethical export of environmental hazard to vulnerable societies. Copyright (c) 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Laura A. Strohm, 2002. "Pollution Havens and the Transfer of Environmental Risk," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 2(2), pages 29-36, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:2:y:2002:i:2:p:29-36
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    1. Jiangsheng Deng & Rongguang Zhang & Qiwen Qiu, 2023. "Spatial Impact of Industrial Structure Upgrading and Corporate Social Responsibility on Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(13), pages 1-14, July.
    2. Michele Morrone & Tania B. Basta, 2013. "Public opinion, local pollution havens, and environmental justice: a case study of a community visioning project in Appalachian Ohio," Community Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(3), pages 350-363, July.
    3. Kyla Tienhaara, 2006. "Mineral investment and the regulation of the environment in developing countries: lessons from Ghana," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 6(4), pages 371-394, December.

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