Title Management of health risks from environment and food : policy and politics of health risk management in five countries : asbestos and BSE / edited by Hajime Sato

Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 387 pages) : illustrations Series Alliance for global sustainability bookseries ; v. 16 Alliance for global sustainability bookseries ; 16. Contents The policies and politics of health risk management -- Development of asbestos regulation in Japan: incremental policy making and crisis politics -- Emergence of asbestos-related health issues and development of regulatory policy in the UK -- Development of asbestos regulation in France: policy making under uncertainty and precautionary principle -- Asbestos in the United States -- Risk perception and management of the asbestos industry in Korea: rise and fall of the industry and health issues -- Policy and politics of BSE-related human disease prevention in Japan: in pursuit of food safety and public reassurance -- BSE in the United Kingdom -- Governing uncertain threats: lessons from the mad cow saga in France -- Policy and politics of BSE in the United States -- Conclusions: policies, politics, and communications of health risks: in search of safety and public reassurance Summary 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 encephalopathy (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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record In Springer eBooks Subject Environmental health -- Political aspects Environmental health -- Government policy Asbestos -- Environmental aspects Asbestos -- Toxicology Bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- Prevention -- Government policy Environmental health. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Food supply. Environmental Health Asbestos -- toxicity Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform Food Supply Public Policy HEALTH & FITNESS -- Safety. Ingénierie. Food supply Environmental health Bovine spongiform encephalopathy Asbestos -- Environmental aspects Asbestos -- Toxicology Environmental health -- Government policy Environmental health -- Political aspects SUBJECT Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 Europe Japan United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject Europe Form Electronic book Author Satō, Hajime, M.D. ISBN 9789048130283 904813028X

Other Titles Policy and politics of health risk management in five countries--asbestos and BSE Asbestos and BSE Asbestos and Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

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