The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, expla

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The often-confrontational debate over the development of agricultural and pharmaceutical products made with the help of genetic modification has drastically lim

A study of the precautionary principle--its meaning, its rationale, its policy implications, and the controversies provoked by its use in environmental regulati

This challenging book takes a broad and thought-provoking look at the precautionary principle and its implementation, or potential implementation, in a number o