How e-Waste Challenges Environmental Governance

Bisschop, Lieselot

doi:10.5204/ijcjsd.v3i2.178

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“…One very illustrative example is the case of electronic wastes (ewastes) in the Agbogbloshie dumpsite in Accra, Ghana's capital. Huge amounts of e-waste are sent to Ghana from more developed, industrialized societies, and there it has caused important environmental problems as well as diseases in Ghanaian people, including children (Agyeman and Carmin 2011;Bisschop 2014).…”

Section: Darwinism and The Naturalization Of Valuesmentioning

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The Environmental Crisis as a Good Case for an Intellectual and Practical Integration Between Philosophy and Science

Nunes-Neto

2015

Sci & Educ

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necessity. To point to this integration as a ''practical necessity'' is very welcome since he asks us to go beyond knowledge or understanding (epistemic virtues), reaching moral virtues instantiated in our social practices and institutions. In fact, we really need adequate practices and institutions that could implement what we already know about biological, ecological and social-ecological systems. After presenting the general idea, Bergandi offers a brief presentation of the book chapters. Then, he moves to-as he calls it-an interweaved history of ecology, evolution and ethics, pointing to some landmarks. Here, Bergandi shows us the interconnections among the disciplines in a very didactical way. This is a positive feature for the use of this chapter by university professors, as well as pre-service or in-service high school biology teachers who want to contextualize historically and philosophically (here, mainly, in the ethical sense) the scientific contents in classes. Particularly, Bergandi appeals to the idea of transactor as a central conceptual tool for the integration between ecology, evolution and ethics. This idea comes from Dewey (1930/ 1984) and Dewey and Bentley (1949/1989), as part of a distinction between ''self-action,'' ''inter-action'' and ''trans-action.'' The transactional framework: … adopts as a reference entity the ''whole'' of the events-including the relation between the knower and the known-without identifying the eventual entities and the surrounding environment as substantiae, i.e., things that are ontologically separated and subsequently are found to have relationships (p. 9).

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Section: Darwinism and The Naturalization Of Valuesmentioning

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The Environmental Crisis as a Good Case for an Intellectual and Practical Integration Between Philosophy and Science

Nunes-Neto

2015

Sci & Educ

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“…[4] The amount of electronic dump generated globally has been estimated to reach about 72 billion tons annually by 2017. [5] E-waste is physically and chemically different from all other types of wastes as it contains various kinds of materials that are hazardous but along with that it also contains a number of valuables [6]. These valuables can be material things or any kind of information.…”

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“…Besides, the issue obliges specialized aptitude that is not given in preparing. Regardless of their insight and experience being pivotal for the control of waste transports, implementation offices are obliged by their constrained [5].…”

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An Overview of Electronic Waste Management, Practices and Impending Challenges

Shah¹,

Batool²

2015

IJCA

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Information and telecommunication technology (ICT) has penetrated deep into the human lives and is affecting human life style in different aspects. The rapid growth in ICT has embarked improvement in computing devices simultaneously decreasing product life and resulting in e-waste. This study examines various issues and challenges being faced by different countries in e-waste management. We will analyse what the legislations for e-waste management are and how they should be implemented in order to eliminate this issue.

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“…At the national level, the literature has discussed the politics of managing e-waste among different state and non-state actors [ 16 , 17 ]. Meanwhile, at the international level, the e-waste governance between developed and developing countries is studied addressed the environmental injustices occurring under economic globalization are addressed [ 18 ]. The discussion on e-waste in both Hong Kong and China, however, has mainly focused on the environmental impacts in both places, including the generation of e-waste and its management [ 19 , 20 ].…”

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Electronic Waste Governance under “One Country, Two Systems”: Hong Kong and Mainland China

Wong

2018

IJERPH

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China is one of the largest e-waste dumping sites in the world, and Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous territory in China, is also affected by illegal e-waste disposal and transfer. While the Chinese government implemented a waste import ban in January 2018, Hong Kong has not enforced Chinese policies under the “One Country, Two Systems” framework. Drawing on a policy network approach, this paper provides an explanatory framework for e-waste governance in Hong Kong and China, and identifies the major obstacles to shaping effective transboundary e-waste control and prevention. The paper argues that institutional arrangements play a dominant role in governing e-waste policy networks at the local level of governance in Hong Kong and China; however, a lack of accountability and capacity at the transboundary level can explain the different waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) management strategies in these two places.

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How e-Waste Challenges Environmental Governance

Cited by 16 publications

References 15 publications

The Environmental Crisis as a Good Case for an Intellectual and Practical Integration Between Philosophy and Science

The Environmental Crisis as a Good Case for an Intellectual and Practical Integration Between Philosophy and Science

An Overview of Electronic Waste Management, Practices and Impending Challenges

Electronic Waste Governance under “One Country, Two Systems”: Hong Kong and Mainland China

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