Risky Business is a comprehensive look at Canada's science-based policy and regulatory regime. It asks what risks Canadians might be exposed to as fiscal pressures strain the capacity of regulators in areas such as food, drugs, pesticides, fisheries, and the environment.
The first part of this book focuses the reader's attention on diverse and major themes and issues that pervade science-based regulatory regimes today. The second part suggests a framework for analysis and endeavours to present both sympathetic and critical perspectives on the inner-workings of regulatory departments and agencies in the area of the protection of human and environmental health and safety.
Covering such topics as the organizational evolution of regulatory agencies, regulatory bodies' changing sources and levels of funding, a review of the independence of science, and the increased potential for realization of risk, these essays point to the need for these regulators to operate with openness and accessibility in order to maintain public confidence. Indeed, the contributors argue that this openness is crucial to both democratic governance and the development of innovative knowledge economies.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 338.971/06
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 0802044816 9781442679399
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- Q127.C2
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- R57 2000eb
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- CaOTU
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- 1 electronic text (xiii, 385 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00600616 (OCoLC)431559276 (CaOOCEL)418064
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 6
- PREFACE 8
- CONTRIBUTORS 10
- 1 Canada's Changing Science-Based Policy and Regulatory Regime: Issues and Framework 18
- Part 1: Macro-Issues and Policy Controversies 44
- 2 Government Science and the Public Interest 46
- 3 Between Expertise and Bureaucracy: Risk Management Trapped at the Science-Policy Interface 64
- 4 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease): Lessons for Public Policy 90
- 5 Can Eco-Labelling Undermine International Agreement on Science-Based Standards? 117
- 6 Risk-Based Regulatory Responses in Global Food Trade: A Case Study of Guatemalan Raspberry Imports into the United States and Canada, 1996–1998 146
- 7 Socioeconomic versus Science-Based Regulation: Informal Influences on the Formal Regulation of rbST in Canada 171
- Part 2: Science in Regulatory and Risk Management Institutions 198
- 8 The Therapeutic Products Programme: From Traditional Science-Based Regulator to Science-Based Risk-Benefit Manager? 200
- 9 The Canadian Food Inspection Agency: Modernizing Science-Based Regulation 223
- 10 The Pest Management Regulatory Agency: The Resilience of Science in Pesticide Regulation 249
- 11 Fisheries and Oceans Canada: Science and Conservation 276
- 12 Patient Science versus Science on Demand: The Stretching of Green Science at Environment Canada 301
- 13 A Question of Balance: New Approaches for Science-Based Regulation 322
- 14 Central Agencies, Horizontal Issues, and Precarious Values: Coordinating Science Policy in the Federal Government 349
- 15 Conclusions: New Institutions and Prospects for Change 378
