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BSE: risk, science and governance

BSE: risk, science and governance

9780198525813
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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 governments handling of the BSE epidemic as well as extending and supplementing the analysis. The book evaluatesemerging 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 democraticlegitimacy. 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 setof 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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OUP Oxford
83936
9780198525813
9780198525813

Data sheet

Publication date
2005
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
312
Dimensions (mm)
161 x 242
Weight (g)
595
  • Introduction; Analysing the role of science in public policy-making; The evolution of UKs agriculture and food policy regimes; A new cattle disease; The Southwood Working Party; Regulatory rigor mortis; BSE policy in Continental Europe; The aftermath of 20 March 1996; BSE and the partial reform of food policy making; Summary and conclusions; Bibliography; Index;
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