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The New Regulation and Governance of Food Beyond the Food Crisis?

364 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

382 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

364 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Major questions surround who, how, and by what means should the interests of government, the private sector, or consumers hold authority and powers over decisions concerning the production and consumption of foods. This book examines the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE (mad cow disease) crisis of the late 1990s, and traces the changing relationships between three key... Read more
 

Introduction: The BRASS approach: interdisciplinary studies of food regulation, governance and accountability

Section 1 Crisis, what Crisis?

1. The anatomy of the food crisis

2. Components of the crisis : Handling Biosecurity Risk: The Case of the Foot and Mouth Epidemic 2001

3. Components of the crisis: State failures and failures of the state

4. Components of the crisis: Consumer Sovereignty and the Regulatory History of the European Market for Genetically Modified Foods

Section 2 A new Regulatory Terrain: dimensions of contested accountability and regulation

5. Contested regulation and accountability: the emerging model in Europe

6. Contested regulation and accountability : the emerging model in the UK

7. The new institutional fabric: the public management and communication of food risks

8. Key Conceptual dimensions: Food Risk and Precaution: the precautionary principle in practice.

9. Key Conceptual dimensions: The quest of Ecological Modernisation: respacing rural development and agri-food studies

10. Conclusions: new conceptual and empirical challenges

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Terry Marsden, Robert Lee, Andrew Flynn and Samarthia Thankappan are all affiliated with the ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society at Cardiff University.