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BSE: risk, science and governance (Hardcover, New)
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BSE: risk, science and governance (Hardcover, New)
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This book provides a lucid and compelling analysis of the BSE
crisis and how policy-making processes were managed, and of how and
why they culminated in catastrophic failure. It is the first
comprehensive scholarly analysis of the relationship between
science and politics in BSE policy-making. The book re-assesses the
conclusions of the Phillips enquiry into the UK government's
handling of the BSE epidemic as well as extending and supplementing
the analysis. The book evaluates emerging public health policy
changes in the light of the experience with the BSE crisis. The
ways in which risks, from challenges such as BSE, GM crops, mobile
phone masts and global warming, used to be assessed and managed are
no longer adequate or acceptable. Traditional arrangements are no
longer seen as having either scientific or democratic legitimacy.
Governments, scientific advisors, and many stakeholder groups
recognise that a new approach to risk policy-making is needed. New
structures and processes should be able to provide greater
scientific and democratic legitimacy. While BSE policy-making in
the UK is a central focus of BSE: risk, science and governance
comparisons with policy-making at the European Commission and other
European countries are also provided. The authors develop an
analysis of how and why BSE policy-making failed and then derive a
general set of lessons about how science-based risk policy-making
should be understood and re-organised. Those lessons are applicable
across the entire field of risk policy-making and can apply in all
jurisdictions. The book is directed at those involved in science
policy, risk and public health as well as public officials,
scientists and policy makers responsible for dealing with issues of
risk, public health and policy making. The book will provide a
unique analysis based on very real issues of interest across
Europe. The authors are well-respected researchers who have
published widely on this subject and have recently completed a
multi-country study of how BSE has been handled.
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