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About this book
Introduction
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 focuses in particular on the new European REACH regime and its nature, causes and consequences. It examines the regime in the context of the interplay between science and policy, the role of the media, human health, and the environment. Other regulatory systems at both domestic and international levels are also studied, including the UN’s Globally Harmonised System (GHS) for chemical labelling, as well as developments in the U.S. In addition, readers will find analyses of a number of new and still largely uncharted regulatory systems, along with in-depth assessments of their complexity and transnational nature.
Keywords
EDU EmS GHS REACH chemicals governance regulation risk
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Bibliographic information
- Book Title Regulating Chemical Risks
- Book Subtitle European and Global Challenges
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Editors
Johan Eriksson
Michael Gilek
Christina Rudén
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9428-5
- Copyright Information Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
- Publisher Name Springer, Dordrecht
- eBook Packages Earth and Environmental Science Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
- Hardcover ISBN 978-90-481-9427-8
- Softcover ISBN 978-94-007-9785-7
- eBook ISBN 978-90-481-9428-5
- Edition Number 1
- Number of Pages XII, 350
- Number of Illustrations 0 b/w illustrations, 0 illustrations in colour
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Topics
Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
Political Science
Pharmacology/Toxicology
Public International Law
Ecotoxicology
Social Sciences, general
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Reviews
From the reviews:
“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)