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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465389803321

Titolo

Balancing between trade and risk : integrating legal and social science perspectives / / edited by Marjolein B.A. van Asselt, Esther Versluis, and Ellen Vos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-10990-2

1-299-27922-8

1-136-27257-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AsseltM. B. A. van

VersluisEsther <1975->

VosEllen

Disciplina

382.094

Soggetti

Risk management - European Union countries

Electronic books.

European Union countries Commerce

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Tessa Fox, Marjolein B.A. van Asselt, Esther Versluis and Ellen Vos -- The European Union in context -- Regulating food trade in the enlarged European Union / Karolina Zurek -- EU risk governance of "cloned food" : regulatory uncertainty between trade and non-trade / Maria Weimer -- Risky politics : a socialogical analysis of the WTO panel on biotechnological products / Renata C. Motta -- Pre-empting precaution : GMO trade conflicts, uncertainty intolerant risk assessment and precaution-based risk management / Boryana Ivanova and Marjolein B.A. van Asselt -- Risk regulation in the European Union -- Between politics and science : accommodating national diversity in GMO regulation / Vessela Hristova -- The politics of risk decision-making : the voting behaviour of the EU member states on GMOs / Madjar Navah, Esther Versluis and Marjolein B.A. van Asselt -- Regulating the use of bisphenol a in baby and children's products in the European Union : trade implications and of an uncertain risk / Tessa Fox, Esther Versluis and Marjolein B.A. van Asselt -- Taking stock of



policy fashions -- Agencies as risk managers? : exploring the role of eu agencies in authorization procedures / Jinhee Kim, Christoph Klika and Esther Versluis -- The precautionary principle in court : an analysis of post-pfizer case law / Anne-May Janssen and Marjolein B.A. van Asselt -- The scientification of participation / Frank Rodrigues -- Synthesis / Marjolein B.A. van Asselt, Tessa Fox, Esther Versluis and Ellen Vos.

Sommario/riassunto

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 a