Risky Business: Canada's Changing Science-Based Policy and Regulatory Regime
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Overview
Risky Business is a comprehensive look at Canada's science-based policy and regulatory regime. It asks what risks Canadians might be exposed to as fiscal pressures strain the capacity of regulators in areas such as food, drugs, pesticides, fisheries, and the environment.
The first part of this book focuses the reader's attention on diverse and major themes and issues that pervade science-based regulatory regimes today. The second part suggests a framework for analysis and endeavours to present both sympathetic and critical perspectives on the inner-workings of regulatory departments and agencies in the area of the protection of human and environmental health and safety.
Covering such topics as the organizational evolution of regulatory agencies, regulatory bodies' changing sources and levels of funding, a review of the independence of science, and the increased potential for realization of risk, these essays point to the need for these regulators to operate with openness and accessibility in order to maintain public confidence. Indeed, the contributors argue that this openness is crucial to both democratic governance and the development of innovative knowledge economies.
Synopsis
The essays in this volume ask what risks Canadians might be exposed to as fiscal pressures strain the capacity of regulators in areas such as food, drugs, pesticides, fisheries, and the environment.
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A collaborative effort initiation from within the public administration department at Carleton University. The 15 studies, presented at an October 1998 conference in Ottawa, explore such aspects of Canadian government policy as risk management trapped at the interface between science and policy, whether eco-labelling can undermine international agreement on science-based standards, modernizing science-based regulation in the Food Inspection Agency, and science and conservation regarding fisheries and oceans. They are not indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)