Overview
- Ten cases on health risk management are presented
- History of asbestos regulation is explored for six countries, Japan, UK, France, US, Korea and Malaysia, and that of BSE issue for four countries, Japan, UK, France and US. These are important topics with widespread implications
Part of the book series: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries (AGSB, volume 16)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Management of environmental risk: Cases of asbestos
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Management of food risk: Cases of BSE-related human risk management
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the policy and politics of two health risks, which have recently become prominent social issues in many countries. One is the issue of asbestos as an environmental risk to humans, and another is that of bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE), or mad cow disease as an animal disease, and of its variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) as a human food risk. Employing a set of analytical frameworks in political science, each case study explores how the issues emerged, agendas got set, alternatives were chosen, and policies were implemented. Through the analysis, it is examined how safety and public reassurance were pursued in the countries studied (Japan, the UK, France the USA, and Korea). Exploration of the successes and failures in their efforts discloses the key elements to successful health risk management.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The book is based on a huge research project entitled, ‘Strategic Management of Health Risks’ (2005-09), for which the editor was the chief investigator. This work was funded by the prestigious Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS). … the audience will include policymakers and presenters as well as scientists and engineers. … This book details both successes and failures in health risk management.” (J. Thomas Pierce, Doody’s Review Service, October, 2011)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Management of Health Risks from Environment and Food
Book Subtitle: Policy and Politics of Health Risk Management in Five Countries -- Asbestos and BSE
Editors: Hajime Sato
Series Title: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3028-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3027-6Published: 23 November 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3079-3Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3028-3Published: 30 October 2009
Series ISSN: 1571-4780
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1699
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 387
Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Political Science, Sociology, general, Nutrition, Environmental Management, Environmental Health