Are we living in a post‐<scp>B</scp>asel world?
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The B asel C onvention (the C onvention) is a key piece of law governing the international waste trade. The spirit of the C onvention is to prohibit the dumping of hazardous waste from ‘developed’ countries to ‘developing’ countries. Yet, a careful consideration of the C onvention suggests a problematic geographical imaginary at work in it. It imagines a bi‐modal world comprised of what it calls A nnex VII countries ( O rganization for E conomic C ooperation and D evelopment ( OECD ), the E uropean C ommunity ( EC ) and L ichtenstein) and non‐ A nnex VII countries (all other signatories) and seeks to prohibit the shipment of hazardous waste from the former to the latter. In effect, what this geographical imaginary attempts to institute is a world of trade in which all non‐ A nnex VII territories are equally vulnerable to hazardous waste dumping from A nnex VII territories, but not vulnerable to such dumping amongst themselves. Yet, the non‐ A nnex VII grouping contains a hugely diverse set of countries, including the two largest non‐ A nnex VII economies, C hina and I ndia. Drawing on textual analysis of C onvention documents and trade data available for C hina and India, the paper engages with recent research into the growing role of ‘ S outh– S outh’ trade to critically engage with the geographical imaginary of the B asel C onvention. It suggests that as the global patterns of hazardous waste trade shift, the relevance of the B asel C onvention's geographical imaginary declines.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it