书目名称 | Global Risk Governance |
副标题 | Concept and Practice |
编辑 | Ortwin Renn,Katherine D. Walker |
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概述 | Timely topic, first volume in a new series |
丛书名称 | International Risk Governance Council Bookseries |
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描述 | Japanese government planners set out in the 1960s to build a barrage on the Nagara River, one of the last major free?owing rivers in Japan. Conceived during a period of rapid growth in the Japanese economy, the barrage was part of a national effort to ensure adequate water supplies for future economic development as well as to reduce ?oodingrisks to downstream communities. A string of lawsuits brought by groups concerned about the impact of the dam on ecological and ?sheries - sourcesresulted incostlydelays:thedamwasnotcompletedformorethan25years. The 1990s witnessed the start of a kind of biotech gold rush toward the use of genetic modi?cation (GM) as tool to develop more productive crops through the introduction of herbicide, insect and disease resistance to feed a growing world. Opponents of the rapid deployment of GM crops have raised concerns about the safety of the technology and about its socio-economic, cultural, and ethical implications. The debate over this issue divided the world – for example, the US allowed the development of GM crops to move forward and now accounts for over half the GM crops grown worldwide whereas the European Union only recently lifted a de facto m |
出版日期 | Book 2008 |
关键词 | Governance; assessment; complexity; development; risk management; quality control, reliability, safety an |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6799-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-7730-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-6799-0Series ISSN 1875-3353 Series E-ISSN 1875-3361 |
issn_series | 1875-3353 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 |