Management of Health Risks from Environment and Food - Policy and Politics of Health Risk Management in Five Countries -- Asbestos and BSE

Management of Health Risks from Environment and Food - Policy and Politics of Health Risk Management in Five Countries -- Asbestos and BSE

von: Hajime Sato

Springer-Verlag, 2009

ISBN: 9789048130283 , 387 Seiten

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Management of Health Risks from Environment and Food - Policy and Politics of Health Risk Management in Five Countries -- Asbestos and BSE


 

Aphorisms

7

Preface

8

Acknowledgements

9

Contents

10

Part I Introduction

12

1 The Policies and Politics of Health Risk Management

13

Part II Management of environmental risk: Cases of asbestos

37

2 Development of Asbestos Regulation in Japan: Incremental Policy Making and Crisis Politics

38

3 Emergence of Asbestos-related Health Issues and Development of Regulatory Policy in the UK

71

4 Development of Asbestos Regulation in France: Policy Making Under Uncertainty and Precautionary Principle

109

5 Asbestos in the United States

135

6 Risk Perception and Management of the Asbestos Industry in Korea: Rise and Fall of the Industry and Health Issues

175

Part III Management of food risk: Cases of BSE-related human risk management

189

7 Policy and Politics of BSE-related Human Disease Prevention in Japan: In Pursuit of Food Safety and Public Reassurance

190

8 BSE in the United Kingdom

227

9 Governing Uncertain Threats: Lessons from the Mad Cow Saga in France

272

10 Policy and Politics of BSE in the United States

321

Part IV Conclusions

343

11 Conclusions: Policies, Politics, and Communications of Health Risks: In Search of Safety and Public Reassurance

344

List of the Project Members

380

Index

384