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Regulating Chemical Risks

European and Global Challenges

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Editors:
  1. Johan Eriksson

    1. , Department of Political Science, Södertörn University, Flemingsberg, Sweden

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  2. Michael Gilek

    1. , Department of Political Science, Södertörn University, Flemingsberg, Sweden

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  3. Christina Rudén

    1. , Philosophy Unit, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Analyses international initiatives and cooperation
  • Offers comprehensive coverage of chemical risk assessment and risk management
  • Up-to-date on developments in key research fields and policy domains
  • Multidisciplinary perspectives, drawing on both life sciences and social sciences
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Chemical Risk Assessment and Risk Communication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Introduction

      • Michael Gilek, Johan Eriksson, Christina Rudén
      Pages 1-5

    3. Risk Governance: Contemporary and Future Challenges

      • Andreas Klinke, Ortwin Renn
      Pages 9-27

    4. Communicating Chemical Risks: Beyond the Risk Society

      • Alison Anderson
      Pages 29-44

    5. Framing Chemical Risks in Sweden and Poland: Journalists’ Narratives and Media Texts

      • Annika Egan Sjölander, Katarzyna Wolanik Boström, Kenneth Ögren
      Pages 45-69

    6. REACH: What Has Been Achieved and What Needs To Be Done?

      • Sven Ove Hansson, Christina Rudén
      Pages 71-83

    7. Improving the Value of Standard Toxicity Test Data in REACH

      • Magnus Breitholtz, Elin Lundström, Ulrika Dahl, Valery Forbes
      Pages 85-98

    8. Testing in Aquatic Ecotoxicology: What Are the Scientific Conditions for the ‘3R’ Concept?

      • Peter Pärt, Argelia Castaño, Bengt-Erik Bengtsson
      Pages 99-119

    9. Chemical Risk Assessment in Toxicological Perspective

      • Helmut Greim
      Pages 121-131

    10. Occupational Exposure Limits in Comparative Perspective: Unity and Diversity Within the European Union

      • Linda Schenk
      Pages 133-150

    11. Scientific Uncertainty and Science-Policy Interactions in the Risk Assessment of Hazardous Chemicals

      • Christina Rudén, Michael Gilek
      Pages 151-161

    12. Assessing Chemical Risks: Evaluating Products Rather than Substances, and the Case of Anti-fouling Paints

      • Britta Eklund, Jenny Karlsson
      Pages 163-176
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About this book

This volume presents research on current trends in chemical regulations – a fa- growing, complex, and increasingly internationalized field. The book grew out from a multidisciplinary research project entitled ‘Regulating Chemical Risks in the Baltic Sea Area: Science, Politics, and the Media’, led by Michael Gilek at Södertörn University, Sweden. This research project involved scholars and experts from natural as well as social sciences, based at Södertörn University, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Karolinska Institutet, and Umeå University. The project group organized a multidisciplinary research conference on chemical risk regulations, held in Stockholm, August 15–17, 2007. Most of the contributions published in this book were, in draft form, first presented at this conference. The conference, like the ensuing edited volume, expanded the geographical focus beyond the Baltic Sea area to include wider European, and to some extent also global trends. Many thanks to all project colleagues and conference participants! We are very grateful for the generous financial support received from The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen), The Swedish Research Council Formas, and from Södertörn University. Without this support the present book would not have been possible. Special thanks to all of our fellow contributors, all of whom have submitted to- cal papers based on high-quality research. Many thanks also to Tobias Evers, who assisted us with technical editing. Finally, we are grateful for the professionalism shown by our editors at Springer.

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“This multiauthored monograph stems from research and a conference on regulating chemical risk in the Baltic area. … This work is useful as a supplementary reference for students in the sciences, journalism, and environmental law. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals, general audiences.” (R. E. Buntrock, Choice, Vol. 48 (9), May, 2011)

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Political Science, Södertörn University, Flemingsberg, Sweden

    Johan Eriksson, Michael Gilek

  • , Philosophy Unit, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Christina Rudén

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