Uncertain Risks Regulated

Herausgeber: Vos, Ellen; Everson, Michelle

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Produktbeschreibung

Uncertain Risks Regulated compares various models of risk regulation in order to understand how these systems shape the relationship between law and science, and how they attempt to overcome public distrust in science-based decision-making. The book contributes to the ongoing debate relating to uncertainty and risks - and the difficulties faced by the European Union in particular - in regulating theses issues, taking account of both national and international constraints. The term 'uncertain risk' is comparable with notions of hazard and indeterminate risk, as deployed within the social sciences; but it also aims to capture the modern regulatory reality that a non-quantifiable hazard must still be addressed by society, law and its regulators. Decisions must be taken in the face of uncertainty. And, whilst it is not possible to provide clear cut models of risk regulation, in focusing on regulatory practices at a national, EU and international level, the contributors to this volume aim to use fact finding as a core instrument of learning for risk regulation.

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In the modern world, policy makers, industry and its regulators are increasingly required to take decisions in the face of unknowable or indeterminate risks. This book compares various models of risk regulation; examining national, EU and international (WTO) regulatory systems for food safety and genetically modified organisms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Riba Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780415542524
• ISBN-10: 0415542529
• Artikelnr.: 35455302

Autorenporträt

Michelle Everson is Professor of European Union Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has researched widely in the field of European Law and has particular interests in the areas of European regulatory law, European administrative and constitutional law and European citizenship. Ellen Vos is Professor of European Union Law at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University. She has published extensively in the field of EU Law, institutional law (comitology and agencies), market integration and risk regulation (precautionary principle; food safety).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Scientification of Politics and the Politicisation of Science,
Michelle Everson and Ellen Vos Part 1: Regulating Uncertain Risks 2.
Opening Pandora's Box: contextualising the Precautionary Principle in the
European Union, Elizabeth Fisher Part 2: National Systems on food and
Biotechnology Section 1. Case Studies on Food Regulation 3. Uncertainties
in Regulating Food Safety in France, Julien Besancon and Olivier Borraz 4.
The Origins of Regulatory Uncertainty in the UK Food Safety Regime Henry
Rothstein 5. The Dutch Regulatory Framework for Food - Risk Analysis Based
Food Law in the Netherlands, Bernd van der Meulen 6. Food Safety in Poland:
Standards, Procedures and Institutions, Aleksander Surdej and Karolina
Zurek 7. A Default-Logic Model of Factfinding for United States Regulation
of Food Safety, Vern Walker Section 2. Case Studies on Biotechnology
Regulation 8. The French Regulatory System on GMOs, Christine Noiville 9.
The UK Regulatory System on GMOs: Expanding the Debate?, Maria Lee 10. GMO
Regulation in the Netherlands: a Story of Hope, Fear and the Limits of
'Poldering', Han Somsen 11. The Polish Regulatory System on GMOs: between
EU Influence and National Nuances, Patrycja Dabrowska 12. The Regulation of
Environmental Risks of GMOs in the United States, Michael Rodemeyer Part 3:
EU and International Models 13. The EU Regulatory System on Food Safety:
Between Trust and Safety, Ellen Vos 14. The EU Regulatory System for GMOs,
Greg Shaffer and Mark Pollack 15. European Regulation of GMOs: Thinking
about 'Judicial Review' in the WTO, Joanne Scott 16. The Codex Alimentarius
Commission and its Food Safety Measures in the Light of their New Status,
Mariëlle Matthee Part 4: Improving the Legitimacy and Credibility of Risk
Regulation: Science, Procedures, Participation and Deliberation 17. Three
Intimate Tales of Law and Science: Hope, Despair and Transcendence,
Michelle Everson 18. Science, Knowledge and Uncertainty in EU Risk
Regulation, Marjolein van Asselt, Ellen Vos and Bram Rooijackers 19. The
Role of Scientific Experts in Risk Regulation of Foods, Harry Kuiper 20.
Inclusive Risk Governance through Discourse, Deliberation and
Participation, Andreas Klinke 21. Sound Science in the European and Global
Market: Karl Polanyi in Geneva, Christian Joerges