Overview

The trade aspects of risk and the risk aspects of trade deserve more systematic and genuine interdisciplinary attention if we are to really understand the global, international and supranational dimensions of risk regulation. This book brings together legal and social science research on risk regulation from across the world to explore risk regulation in a trade context. The interdisciplinary collaboration provided in this book is needed to address the trade versus risk balancing act both in empirical and theoretical terms. Although it is obvious that legal, social, cultural and political matters interfere with risk regulation, analyses in which these interferences are adequately considered are lacking. In one way or another, all chapters in this book address the issue of scientific uncertainty, the governance arrangements around expertise or both. Issues such as transparency, trust, legitimacy and precaution also become particularly important given the political, multi-actor and multi-level governance characteristics of the balancing act between trade and risk regulation. This book highlights and examines these concerns, going on to provide a critical assessment of the EU regulation of trade and risk both from external and internal perspectives. This book’s exploration of the balancing act between trade and risk regulation will be increasingly important to students of law and social sciences as they move to a shared, interdisciplinary understanding.

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Author:   Marjolein B. A. van Asselt ,  Esther Versluis ,  Ellen Vos (all at Maastricht University, the Netherlands)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Earthscan Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9781849713610

ISBN 10:   1849713618
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   14 February 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: The European Union in Context 1. Regulating Food Trade in the Enlarged European Union 2. EU Risk Governance of ‘Cloned Food’: Regulatory Uncertainty between Trade and Non-Trade 3. Risky Politics: A Socialogical Analysis of the WTO Panel on Biotechnological Products 4. Pre-Empting Precaution: GMO Trade Conflicts, Uncertainty Intolerant Risk Assessment and Precaution-Based Risk Management Part 2: Risk Regulation in the European Union 5. Between Politics and Science: Accommodating National Diversity in GMO Regulation 6. The Politics of Risk Decision-Making: The Voting Behaviour of the EU Member States on GMOs 7. Regulating the Use of Bisphenol A in Baby and Children’s Products in the European Union: Trade Implications and of an Uncertain Risk Part 3: Taking Stock of Policy Fashions 8. Agencies as Risk Managers? Exploring the Role of EU Agencies in Authorization Procedures 9. The Precautionary Principle in Court: An Analysis of Post-Pfizer Case Law 10. The Scientification of Participation 11. Synthesis

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Marjolein B. A. van Asselt is Professor of Risk Governance, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University, and member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), The Hague. Esther Versluis is Associate Professor European Regulatory Governance at the Department of Political Science, Maastricht University. Ellen Vos is Professor of European Union Law at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University and co-director of the Maastricht Centre for European Law of Maastricht University.

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