书目名称 | Risk Regulation in Europe | 副标题 | Assessing the Applic | 编辑 | Jale Tosun | 视频video | | 概述 | Risk Regulation in Europe.Includes supplementary material: | 丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Political Science | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .The publication aims to familiarize students of public policy with the precautionary principle, which plays a vital role in the European Union’s approach toward regulating risks. The precautionary principle contends that policy makers should refrain from actions having a suspected risk of causing harm to the public and/or the environment. However, the precautionary principle only provides guidance to policy makers but does not prescribe specific policy responses. Therefore, there should be variation in the way the principle is applied. Furthermore, precautionary measures are, in principle, of a provisional nature, suggesting that they are likely to be subject to changes over time. This book is thus interested in shedding light on how the precautionary principle is put into practice and to what extent precautionary measures become modified. Empirically, it focuses on how the EU has regulated the use of growth hormones in meat production, the cultivation of genetically modified corn and the use of Stevia-based sweeteners in foods and beverages. The main theoretical argument advanced by this study is that the way in which the original regulatory standards were formulated affects whet | 出版日期 | Book 2013 | 关键词 | European Union; governance; policy; precautionary principle; risk | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1984-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4614-1983-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4614-1984-6Series ISSN 2191-5466 Series E-ISSN 2191-5474 | issn_series | 2191-5466 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013 |
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