The Reality of Precaution

Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-933115-86-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 604 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1108 g

The 'Precautionary Principle' has sparked the central controversy over European and U.S. risk regulation. The Reality of Precaution is the most comprehensive study to go beyond precaution as an abstract principle and test its reality in practice. This groundbreaking resource combines detailed case studies of a wide array of risks to health, safety, environment and security; a broad quantitative analysis; and cross-cutting chapters on politics, law, and perceptions. The authors rebut the rhetoric of conflicting European and American approaches to risk, and show that the reality has been the selective application of precaution to particular risks on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as a constructive exchange of policy ideas toward 'better regulation.' The book offers a new view of precaution, regulatory reform, comparative analysis, and transatlantic relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiener, Jonathan B.

Hammit, James

Rogers, Michael D.

Rogers, Michael

Hammitt, James K.

Sand, Peter

Sand, Peter H.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Kostenmanagement, Budgetierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Contributors

I. Introduction

1. The Rhetoric of Precaution

II. Case Studies of Relative Precaution regarding Specific Risks

2. Genetically Modified Foods and Crops

3. Beef, Hormones and Mad Cows

4. Smoking

5. Nuclear Power

6. Automobile Emissions

7. Stratospheric Ozone Protection and Global Climate Change

8. The Marine Environment

9. Biodiversity Conservation

10. Chemicals

11. Medical Errors, New Drug Approval and Patient Safety

12. Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction

III. Precaution in Risk Information Systems

13. Information Disclosure

14. Frameworks for Risk Assessment

IV. A Broader Empirical Test of Relative Precaution

15. A Quantitative Comparison of Relative Precaution in the United States and Europe, 1970-2004

V. Can We Explain the Observed Pattern of Precaution?

16. Political Institutions and the Principle of Precaution

17. Legal and Administrative Systems

18. Risk Perceptions and Risk Attitudes in the US and Europe

19. Precautions Against What? Perceptions, Heuristics and Culture

VI. Conclusions

20. The Real Pattern of Precaution

Acknowledgments

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan B. Wiener is a professor of law, environmental policy, and public policy studies at Duke University, and a university fellow at Resources for the Future.

Michael D. Rogers is an independent consultant on risk, science, and ethics, and a former member of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers reporting to the President of the European Commission.

James K. Hammitt is a professor of economics and decision sciences at Harvard University.

Peter H. Sand is a lecturer in international environmental law at the University of Munich.