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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Issues and Challenges Peter Oosterveer. Meat and Bone Meal Multilateral Environmental Agreement Marine Mammal Protection ... Environment and Development World Food Program World Health Organisation World Summit on Sustainable Development ...
Issues and Challenges Peter Oosterveer. Meat and Bone Meal Multilateral Environmental Agreement Marine Mammal Protection ... Environment and Development World Food Program World Health Organisation World Summit on Sustainable Development ...
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... Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen University and to all permanent and temporary colleagues from the Environmental Policy Group , who supported my work , provided comments and offered a very pleasant working environment . Thanks ...
... Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen University and to all permanent and temporary colleagues from the Environmental Policy Group , who supported my work , provided comments and offered a very pleasant working environment . Thanks ...
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... environmental and health concerns re- lated to this transition . Then , the challenges these environmental and food safety problems pose to governments , private actors and consumers will be reviewed more in depth . The central ...
... environmental and health concerns re- lated to this transition . Then , the challenges these environmental and food safety problems pose to governments , private actors and consumers will be reviewed more in depth . The central ...
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... ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD SAFETY IMPACTS OF GLOBALISING FOOD PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION Concerns about environmental , social ... environment , the declining attractiveness of the coun- tryside , reduction of biodiversity and the unethical ...
... ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD SAFETY IMPACTS OF GLOBALISING FOOD PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION Concerns about environmental , social ... environment , the declining attractiveness of the coun- tryside , reduction of biodiversity and the unethical ...
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... 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 recently , the recommendations from natural science ...
... 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 recently , the recommendations from natural science ...
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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