The International Trade in Toxic Waste: The Case of Sihanoukville, Cambodia

References and Endnotes

• Human Rights Watch. Toxic Justice: Human Rights, Justice, and Toxic Waste in Cambodia. July 1999. Available at http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/cambotox/cambo996.htm.
   Google Scholar
• Biays S, Odermatt P. Health Needs of Risk Groups Exposed to Mer-cury-containing Waste in Sihanoukville: Exploratory Mission: Sunday 10.1.99-Wednesday, 13.1.99. Médecins Sans Frontieres Hol-land/Belgium/Switzerland, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1999.
   Google Scholar
• Personal communication with patient's mother, via interpreter, 1 Aug 1999, Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
   Google Scholar
• Personal communication with patients, via interpreter, 1 Aug 1999, Sihanoukville, Cambodia, and #9.
   Google Scholar
• Sotheacheath C, Stephens S. Party time as rights workers walk free. Phnom Penh Post, Issue 8/15, 23 Jul 23-5 Aug 1999.
   Google Scholar
• Personal communication with HRW report author, 30 Jul 1999, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
   Google Scholar
• Sakamoto M. Mission Report-Investigation into Suspected Mer-cury Contamination at Sihanoukville, Cambodia. National Institute for Minimata Disease, 8 Jan 1999.
   Google Scholar
• LaDou J (ed). Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2nd ed. Stamford, CT: Appleton & Lange, 1997.
   Google Scholar
• Basel Action Network (BAN) and Greenpeace. Environmentalists Denounce Importation of Infamous Toxic PVC Waste in Nether-lands [press release]. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 20 March 2000, available at http://www.ban.org/.
   Google Scholar
• Oberhauser B, Sarath S. Chemical Waste in Sihanoukville: Medical Follow-up of the Exposed Population from 2/2/199 to 28/2/1999. Mis-sion Report. Medecins Sans Frontieres Holland/Belgium/Switzer-land, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1999.
   Google Scholar
• Personal communication with Mike Busse", United States Environ-mental Protection Agency, and Jim Puckett, Basel Action Network, 29 Sep, 1999, via e-mail.
   Google Scholar
• Sakamoto M. Mission Report-Investigation into Suspected Mer-cury Contamination at Sihanoukville, Cambodia. National Institute for Minimata Disease, 8 Jan 1999.
   Google Scholar
• Personal communication with port workers and family members, via interpreter, 1 Aug 1999, Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
   Google Scholar
• #9 and personal communication with woodcutters, via interpreter, 1 Aug 1999, Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
   Google Scholar
• #9 and personal communication with villagers, via interpreter, 1 Aug 1999, Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
   Google Scholar
• Allenby BR, Graedel TE: Industrial Ecology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995.
   Google Scholar
• Hawken P, Lovins A, Lovins LH. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown, 1999.
   Google Scholar
• The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal. Basel, Switzerland, 22 Mar 1989. Available at http://www.unep.ch/basel/.
   Google Scholar
• Low P. (ed). International Trade and the Environment. World Bank Discussion Paper #159. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1992.
   Google Scholar
• Jones WM, Yeater MD. Hazardous Substances. In: Sand PH (ed). Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements. Cam-bridge, England: Grotius Publishers, 1992.
   Google Scholar
• Institute of Medicine, Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health. The Future of Public Health. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1989.
   Google Scholar
• Fontaine C. Greenpeace blasts Taiwan firm for shipping toxic waste to Cambodia. Associated Press wire story, 19 Jan 1999.
   Google Scholar
• Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. Trial of Cambodian Rights Workers Set for June 21. Lawyers Committee Raises Fair Trial Con-cerns [press release], June 10, 1999. Available at http://www.lchr.org/media/cambodia0699.htm.
   Google Scholar
• Runyan C. The Third Force: NG0s. Action on the front lines. World Watch. 1999; 12: 12–21.
   Google Scholar
• Baxter PJ. Responding to major toxic releases. Ann Occup Hyg. 1990; 24: 615–20.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bertazzi PA. Long-term effects of chemical disasters: lessons and results from Seveso. Sci Total Environ. 1991; 106: 5–20.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Logue JN. Disasters, the environment, and public health: improving our response. Am J Public Health. 1996; 86: 1207–10.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tyagi YK, Rosencranz A. Some international law aspects of the Bhopal disaster. Soc Sri Med. 1988; 27: 1105–12.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mehta PS, Mehta AS, Mehta SJ, Makhijani AB. Bhopal tragedy's health effects: a review of methyl isocyanate toxicity. JAMA. 1990; 264: 2781–7.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Geiger HJ. The accident at Chernobyl and the medical response. JAMA. 1986; 256: 609–12.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Arturson G. The tragedy of San Juanico-the most severe LPG dis-aster in history. Burns, Including Thermal Injury. 1987; 13: 87–102.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Krueger J. What's to become of trade in hazardous wastes? Environ-ment. 1999; 41: 11-21.
   Google Scholar