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The Politics of Chemical Risk: Scenarios for a Regulatory Future

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Roland Bal

    1. Leyden Institute for Law & Public Policy, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

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  2. Willem Halffman

    1. Department of Science & Technology Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. General Introduction

    1. General Introduction

      • Willem Halffman, Roland Bal
      Pages 1-6

  5. Standardization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-207
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    2. Risk Management of Chemical Substances in the European Union

      • Patrick McCutcheon
      Pages 209-229

    3. Regulatory Science and the European Control of Agrochemicals

      • Alan Irwin, Henry Rothstein, Elaine McCarthy, Steven Yearley
      Pages 231-250

    4. Standards, Science and the Politics of Chemical Risk

      • Peter Calow
      Pages 251-263

    5. Standardization as a Trust Device

      • Willem Halffman
      Pages 265-291

  6. Scenarios and Reflexions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 301-301
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    2. The Politics of Chemical Risk Scenarios for Regulatory Policy

      • Willem Halffman, Roland Bal
      Pages 303-332

    3. Postscript: Notes on the Workshop as an Experiment

      • Willem Halffman, Roland Bal
      Pages 333-344

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 345-367
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About this book

All industrial countries have developed regulatory systems to assess and manage the risk of chemical substances to the working and natural environment. The pressure to harmonize these often specialized regulatory systems is increasingly strong at the international level. Such harmonization not only entails the assessment of particular chemicals, but also the way assessment procedures and their boundary with risk management is organized. As these initiatives intensify, they increasingly raise important questions of how to integrate national differences in the international regulatory arena. How will national consultation procedures relate to international decision-making on chemical risks? How will differences in national risk assessment procedures be accommodated? How will the international regulatory system be integrated with different national styles of regulation and government?
Presenting the experiences and insights of both people from within the worlds of risk assessment and management and from the field of Science Studies, this book forms a state-of-the-art in the discussion on the Politics of Chemical Risk. By offering scenarios, or sketches of a regulatory future, it points to the choices that can be made and the opportunities to be explored. As such, it offers an agenda for environmental and occupational scientists, policy-makers and students of science and technology alike.

Reviews

`This book illustrates the boundary and the nature of exposure limits and regulation like no other work I have encountered. I strongly recommend the book for anyone who desires more information on the relationship between science and policy regarding chemical use.'
Environmental Practice, 2:1 (2000)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Leyden Institute for Law & Public Policy, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Roland Bal

  • Department of Science & Technology Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Willem Halffman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Politics of Chemical Risk: Scenarios for a Regulatory Future

  • Editors: Roland Bal, Willem Halffman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9101-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4891-7Published: 30 June 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4973-5Published: 05 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9101-0Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 368

  • Topics: Environmental Management, Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine, Political Science

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