The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States Pdf

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Release: 2012-04-09
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0691124167
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

The Politics of Precaution pdf
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The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have often regulated a wide range of similar risks differently. It finds that between 1960 and 1990, American health, safety, and environmental regulations were more stringent, risk averse, comprehensive, and innovative than those adopted in Europe. But since around 1990, the book shows, global regulatory leadership has shifted to Europe. What explains this striking reversal? David Vogel takes an in-depth, comparative look at European and American policies toward a range of consumer and environmental risks, including vehicle air pollution, ozone depletion, climate change, beef and milk hormones, genetically modified agriculture, antibiotics in animal feed, pesticides, cosmetic safety, and hazardous substances in electronic products. He traces how concerns over such risks--and pressure on political le Download The Politics of Precaution for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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