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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... result in global food supply networks . These fundamental changes , taking place over the last decades , have had ... resulting in changing food pro- duction and consumption routines . Some of these concerns are directly re- lated to ...
... result in global food supply networks . These fundamental changes , taking place over the last decades , have had ... resulting in changing food pro- duction and consumption routines . Some of these concerns are directly re- lated to ...
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... result in considerable economic impacts . The discovery of the first case of BSE in the US in 2003 , and the ... resulting from the globalisation in food provisioning actually lead to more casualties re- mains extremely hard to determine ...
... result in considerable economic impacts . The discovery of the first case of BSE in the US in 2003 , and the ... resulting from the globalisation in food provisioning actually lead to more casualties re- mains extremely hard to determine ...
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... standard ( natural ) science- based risk politics further complicates conventional regulation . The result of these trends is the emergence of several competing regulatory regimes 8 Global governance of food production and consumption.
... standard ( natural ) science- based risk politics further complicates conventional regulation . The result of these trends is the emergence of several competing regulatory regimes 8 Global governance of food production and consumption.
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... results of four case studies . These cases were selected to gather concrete insights into the transition towards new regulatory arrangements and the social dynamics in- volved . The first case study in Chapter 5 deals with the ways in ...
... results of four case studies . These cases were selected to gather concrete insights into the transition towards new regulatory arrangements and the social dynamics in- volved . The first case study in Chapter 5 deals with the ways in ...
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... resulting net effect of this influence from agro - industries remains , according to the authors , an issue of empirical verification . Interestingly , larger corporations seem to be more inclined to introduce voluntary compli- ance ...
... resulting net effect of this influence from agro - industries remains , according to the authors , an issue of empirical verification . Interestingly , larger corporations seem to be more inclined to introduce voluntary compli- ance ...
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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