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…
This book examines the challenges for the life insurance sector in Europe arising from new technologies, socio-cultural and demographic trends, and the financial crisis. It presents theoretical and applied research in all areas related to life insurance products and markets, and…
The rapid development of new information and communication technologies has changed people's everyday life and consumption patterns significantly. The worldwide spread of those technologies provides many innovations for consumers, but it can also bear risks, such as the indiscri…
The Handbook focuses particularly on how the development of EU law negotiates the tension between market integration, national sovereignty and political democracy. The book begins with chapters examining constitutional issues, while further chapters address the establishment of …
"This book charts the transformative shifts in techniques that seek to deliver collective redress, especially for mass consumer claims in Europe. It shows how traditional approaches of class litigation (old technology) have been eclipsed by the new technology of regulatory redre…
"This book exposes the inherent anomalies of our food production system, using as examples three o the most potent issues of our time - BSE, genetic modification (GM) and foot and mouth disease. Presenting the untold story of these crises, the author uncovers how critical scient…
Uncovers how critical scientists were marginalized while commercial interests, macro-economic policies and trade concerns overruled common sense, precaution, and health protection. [back cover].
This work examines the regulations of the production and marketing of food in Europe, placing issues within the context of sociological and jurisprudential theories, and evaluating the ability of present law and policy to cope with the inevitable change and crises that impact up…
