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Uncertain Risks Regulated
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ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|18 pages
The scientification of politics and the politicisation of science
part |2 pages
Part I Regulating uncertain risks
chapter 2|26 pages
Opening Pandora’s box: contextualising the precautionary principle in the European Union
part |2 pages
PART II National systems on food and biotechnology Section 1: Case studies on food regulation
chapter 3|20 pages
Uncertainties in regulating food safety in France
chapter 4|18 pages
The origins of regulatory uncertainty in the UK food safety regime
chapter 5|24 pages
The Dutch regulatory framework for food – risk analysis based food law in the Netherlands
chapter 6|16 pages
Food safety in Poland: standards, procedures and institutions
chapter 7|26 pages
A default-logic model of factfinding for United States regulation of food safety
part |2 pages
Section 2: Case studies on biotechnology regulation
chapter 10|20 pages
GMO regulation in the Netherlands: a story of hope, fear and the limits of ‘poldering’
chapter 12|20 pages
The regulation of environmental risks of GMOs in the United States
part |2 pages
Part III EU and international models
chapter 15|28 pages
European regulation of GMOs: thinking about ‘judicial review’ in the WTO
chapter 16|22 pages
The Codex Alimentarius Commission and its food safety measures in the light of their new status
part |2 pages
Part IV Improving the legitimacy and credibility of risk regulation: science, procedures, participation and deliberation