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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... 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 , such as BSE , dioxins and GM food ? Should ...
... 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 , such as BSE , dioxins and GM food ? Should ...
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... risks resulting from the globalisation in food provisioning actually lead to more casualties re- mains extremely hard to determine because it proves rather difficult to es- tablish the exact number of victims from contaminated food ...
... risks resulting from the globalisation in food provisioning actually lead to more casualties re- mains extremely hard to determine because it proves rather difficult to es- tablish the exact number of victims from contaminated food ...
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... risks are evolving within global modernity . Familiar food safety problems , such as Salmonella and E. coli , seem to increase in frequency and intensify , while new and unknown food safety risks ( or concerns ) , like BSE and ...
... risks are evolving within global modernity . Familiar food safety problems , such as Salmonella and E. coli , seem to increase in frequency and intensify , while new and unknown food safety risks ( or concerns ) , like BSE and ...
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... risk poli- tics . The BSE crisis has become a model case of the changing food safety risks in contemporary western societies and often commentators refer to this crisis when discussing newly emerging food risks and the need for innova ...
... risk poli- tics . The BSE crisis has become a model case of the changing food safety risks in contemporary western societies and often commentators refer to this crisis when discussing newly emerging food risks and the need for innova ...
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... risks can no longer be considered valid . The disruption of this ' simple modern ' view on the process of modernisation also questions several basic elements in the conceptualisation of food governance . Therefore , understanding ...
... risks can no longer be considered valid . The disruption of this ' simple modern ' view on the process of modernisation also questions several basic elements in the conceptualisation of food governance . Therefore , understanding ...
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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