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Safe or Not Safe: Deciding What Risks to Accept in Our Environment and Food
Pechan, Paul; Renn, Ortwin; Watt, Allan; Pongratz, Ingemar
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Description for Safe or Not Safe: Deciding What Risks to Accept in Our Environment and Food
hardcover. This book discusses risk and the food supply. It details all aspects of risk and how it applies to food, from risk classification to risk management, and examines such issues as the political context of risk discussion and moral dimensions of decision making. Num Pages: 157 pages, 14 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: MBNH3; TDCT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 409.
Based on an EU workshop at the end of 2005, the book discusses risk and our food supply. The introductory chapter will discuss all aspects of risk and how it applies to food, from risk classification to risk management. Following a discussion of risk, the authors will present three different case studies that will emphasize the following issues:
• What do we want as individuals, as a society
• What is the political context of the risk discussion
• When do we act and what are the costs of not acting/acting
• International trade and legal issues
• Moral dimensions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer United States
Number of pages
157
Condition
New
Number of Pages
145
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781441978677
SKU
V9781441978677
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Pechan, Paul; Renn, Ortwin; Watt, Allan; Pongratz, Ingemar
Paul Pechan is a researcher at the Department of Communication and Media Research, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. His background is in molecular biology but since 2000 he has been involved in the research and communication of science to the public and youth. His latest work includes scientific papers on information recall, texts for 5 health films and a UNESCO manual ... Read more
Reviews for Safe or Not Safe: Deciding What Risks to Accept in Our Environment and Food
From the reviews: “An additional subtitle to this excellent book should be ‘risk management.’ … This book will be useful for a wide audience, especially students, faculty, and researchers in environmental, food, risk management, political science, legal, and communication disciplines, as well as politicians and the concerned public. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.” (R. E. Buntrock, Choice, Vol. 49 ... Read more