Global Governance of Food Production and Consumption: Issues and ChallengesEdward Elgar Publishing, 2007 M01 1 - 294 pages The provision of food is undergoing radical transformations throughout the global community. Peter Oosterveer argues that, as a consequence, conventional national governmental regulations can no longer adequately respond to existing and emerging food risks and to environmental concerns. This book examines these challenges. |
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... deal with bird flu . During the six years between these moments , nearly all countries have been confronted with crises about the safety of food or about the environmental risks in using particular production or processing methods . The ...
... deal with bird flu . During the six years between these moments , nearly all countries have been confronted with crises about the safety of food or about the environmental risks in using particular production or processing methods . The ...
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... deal with these environmental and food safety risks in the changing circumstances ? Alternatively , are alterna- tive instruments required to address the previously unknown food risks that seem to develop at an increasingly faster rate ...
... deal with these environmental and food safety risks in the changing circumstances ? Alternatively , are alterna- tive instruments required to address the previously unknown food risks that seem to develop at an increasingly faster rate ...
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... deal more effectively with the emerging food safety and environmental problems . The conventional nation - state - based regulation of food risks seems no longer able to deal adequately with the newly emerging consumer concerns . Until ...
... deal more effectively with the emerging food safety and environmental problems . The conventional nation - state - based regulation of food risks seems no longer able to deal adequately with the newly emerging consumer concerns . Until ...
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... deal with the continuous interaction between local and global level dynamics ? How would such innovative governance arrangements function in practice , in particular in relation to the conventional nation- state - based arrangements ...
... deal with the continuous interaction between local and global level dynamics ? How would such innovative governance arrangements function in practice , in particular in relation to the conventional nation- state - based arrangements ...
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... deals with the ways in which BSE ( or ' mad cow disease ' ) and the regulatory responses to it have been publicly debated between 1985 and 2000 in the EU and in the US in 2003. The re- view of public debates will be combined with the ...
... deals with the ways in which BSE ( or ' mad cow disease ' ) and the regulatory responses to it have been publicly debated between 1985 and 2000 in the EU and in the US in 2003. The re- view of public debates will be combined with the ...
Contents
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a conceptual framework | 41 |
4 Governments and the governance of food | 63 |
reflexive modernity and the BSE crisis | 81 |
6 Governing genetically modified food in the global network society | 111 |
7 Turning blue into green? | 147 |
labelling as new arrangements? | 193 |
9 Conclusions | 222 |
References | 236 |
The most important arguments used by proponents and opponents of GM foods | 274 |
The international environmental instruments influencing fisheries | 276 |
Index | 278 |
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