Springer Regulating Chemical Risks: European and Global Challenges

This text offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary analysis of chemical risk regulation, including REACH and GHS. It features contributions from experts in toxicology, ecotoxicology, risk analysis, media and communication, law, and political science. Review From the reviews:“This multiauthored monograph stems from research and a conference on regulating chemical risk in the Baltic area. … This work is useful as a supplementary reference for students in the sciences, journalism, and environmental law. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals, general audiences.” (R. E. Buntrock, Choice, Vol. 48 (9), May, 2011) From the Back Cover This important contribution to the scientific understanding of chemical risk regulation offers a coherent, comprehensive and updated multidisciplinary analysis, written by leading experts in toxicology, ecotoxicology, risk analysis, media and communication, law, and political science.   The text focuses in particular on the new European REACH regime and its nature, causes and consequences. It examines the regime in the context of the interplay between science and policy, the role of the media, human health, and the environment. Other regulatory systems at both domestic and international levels are also studied, including the UN’s Globally Harmonised System (GHS) for chemical labelling, as well as developments in the U.S. In addition, readers will find analyses of a number of new and still largely uncharted regulatory systems, along with in-depth assessments of their complexity and transnational nature.