Regulating Chemical Risks European and Global Challenges /
This important contribution to the scientific understanding of chemical risk regulation offers a coherent, comprehensive and updated multidisciplinary analysis, written by leading experts in toxicology, ecotoxicology, risk analysis, media and communication, law, and political science. The text focus...
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Format: | Electronic |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2010.
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Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9428-5 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- 1. Introduction
- PART I: Chemical Risk Assessment and Risk Communication
- 2. Risk Governance: Contemporary and Future Challenges
- 3. Communicating Chemical Risks: Beyond the Risk Society
- 4. Framing Chemical Risks in Sweden and Poland: Journalists<U+0019> Narratives and Media Texts
- 5. REACH: What Has Been Achieved and What Needs To Be Done?- 6. Improving the Value Standard of Toxicity Test Data in REACH
- 7. Testing in Aquatic Ecotoxicology: What are the Scientific Conditions for the <U+0018>3R<U+0019> Concept?- 8. Chemical Risk Assessment in Toxicological Perspective
- 9. Occupational Exposure Limits in Comparative Perspective: Unity and Diversity Within the European Union
- 10. Scientific Uncertainty and Science-Policy Interactions in the Risk Assessment of Hazardous Chemicals
- 11. Assessing Chemical Risks: Evaluating Products Rather than Substances, and the Case of Anti-fouling Paints
- PART II: Chemical Regulation: Politics, Policy and Management
- 12. Global Trends in Chemicals Management
- 13. Regulating Chemical Risk: REACH in a Global Governance Perspective
- 14. The Precautionary Principle in EU and U.S. Chemicals Policy: A Comparison of Industrial Chemicals Legislation
- 15. Chemical Regulations in Central and Eastern Europe: The Pull of Transnational Markets and Associations
- 16. Capacity Building for Chemicals Control: Legislation, Institutions, Public-Private Relationships
- 17. Scientific Committees and EU Policy: The Case of SCHER
- 18. Implementing Chemical Regulations: The Role of Inspectors
- CONCLUSION
- 19. Regulatory Futures in Retrospect
- Index.