Chemicals, Environment, Health: A Global Management Perspective

810 Pages·2011·8.53 MB·English

by  Philip Wexler

Chemicals,
Environment,
Health
A Global Management Perspective

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For my parents (Yetty and Will), my son (Jacob), and dear Nancy
Philip Wexler
For my wife, Jeanette, who accompanied me in many ways during a
40 year journey promoting chemical safety
Jan van der Kolk
For my loving wife, Sarah, my Mom (Kanak) and Dad (Mahendra)
Asish Mohapatra
To my father
Ravi Agarwal

Contents
Foreword................................................................................................................xiii
Preface......................................................................................................................xv
Editors.....................................................................................................................xix
Contributors............................................................................................................xxi
Section i the context
Chapter 1 CreatingandControllingChemicalHazards:
ABriefHistory.....................................................................................3
Jody A. Roberts
Section ii conferences
Chapter 2 Stockholm1972:ConferenceontheHuman Environment.................17
Lars-Göran Engfeldt
Chapter 3 Rio1992:TheUNConferenceonEnvironmentand
Development (The“Earth Summit”).................................................27
Shelley Kath
Chapter 4 Johannesburg2002:The WorldSummiton
SustainableDevelopment...................................................................63
Shelley Kath
Chapter 5 InternationalConferenceonChemicalsManagement1,ICCM-1.....83
Linn Persson and Viveka Bohn
Chapter 6 InternationalConferenceonChemicalsManagement2,ICCM-2:
CementingProcessandMakingProgresstowardthe 2020 Goal......91
Melanie Ashton and Pia M. Kohler
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Section iii Global/Multilateral instruments
Chapter 7 TheAarhusConvention:ImpactonSoundChemicals
Management withSpecialEmphasisonAfrica...............................103
Ebeh Adayade Kodjo
Chapter 8 TheBaselConvention—APromisingFuture..................................121
Pierre Portas
Chapter 9 TheClimateChangeConventionandtheKyotoProtocol...............135
Bert Metz
Chapter 10 ConventiononLong-RangeTransboundaryAir Pollution..............155
Johan Sliggers
Chapter 11 TheGloballyHarmonizedSystemofClassificationand
Labelling of Chemicals:TheSystem,ItsHistory
and Context, and the FutureofImplementation................................171
Cheryl Chang
Chapter 12 TheInternationalCodeofConductonDistributionand
Use of Pesticides...............................................................................187
Gamini Manuweera
Chapter 13 TheKievProtocolon PollutantReleaseand
TransferRegisters.............................................................................203
Michael Stanley-Jones
Chapter 14 TheRotterdamConvention..............................................................213
Ernest Mashimba
Chapter 15 ImplementingtheStockholmConvention:AnIncreasingly
Expensive Challenge........................................................................229
Pia M. Kohler and Melanie Ashton
Chapter 16 TheViennaConvention,MontrealProtocol,andGlobal
Policy to ProtectStratosphericOzone..............................................243
David Downie
Contents xi
Section iV SAicM
Chapter 17 StrategicApproachtoInternationalChemicalsManagement:
DevelopmentandOpportunities.......................................................261
Hamoudi Shubber
Section V organizations
Chapter 18 FoodandAgricultureOrganizationoftheUnitedNations..............285
Mark Davis
Chapter 19 InternationalChemicalsManagementwithintheGlobal
EnvironmentalGovernanceContext................................................301
Achim Halpaap
Chapter 20 ManagingChemicalRisks:TheRoleoftheChemicalIndustry.....311
Michael Walls
Chapter 21 TheIntergovernmentalForumonChemicalSafety.........................329
Jack Weinberg
Chapter 22 InternationalLabourOrganization’sActivitiesintheArea
of ChemicalSafety...........................................................................343
Pavan Baichoo
Chapter 23 Inter-OrganizationProgrammefortheSound
Management of Chemicals...............................................................355
Jan van der Kolk
Chapter 24 TheInternationalPanelonChemicalPollution...............................359
Martin Scheringer, Åke Bergman, and Heidelore Fiedler
Chapter 25 TheRoleoftheInternationalPOPSEliminationNetwork..............371
Mariann Lloyd-Smith