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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Eriksson, Johan. (Editor), Gilek, Michael. (Editor), Rudň, Christina. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: 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.