Management of Health Risks from Environment and Food Policy and Politics of Health Risk Management in Five Countries - Asbestos and BSE /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Sato, Hajime (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Σειρά: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries, Science and Technology: Tools for Sustainable Development, 16
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Political science.; Nutrition.; Environmental management.; Environmental health.; Sociology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Political Science.; Sociology, general.; Environmental Management.; Environmental Health.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: XII, 387 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9789048130283
• ISSN: 1571-4780 ;

This book examines the policy and politics of two health risks, which have recently become prominent social issues in many countries. One is the issue of asbestos as an environmental risk to humans, and another is that of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease as an animal disease, and of its variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) as a human food risk. Employing a set of analytical frameworks in political science, each case study explores how the issues emerged, agendas got set, alternatives were chosen, and policies were implemented. Through the analysis, it is examined how safety and public reassurance were pursued in the countries studied (Japan, the UK, France the USA, and Korea). Exploration of the successes and failures in their efforts discloses the key elements to successful health risk management.