1. Regulating risk in a fragmented world -- 2. Making rules and shaping knowledge -- 3. Mobile telephony and radiation protection : regulating risk or local self-governance -- 4. Oil transport in the Baltic Sea : environmental protection and the freedom of the high seas -- 5. Climate change adaptation : regulation under formation -- 6. Regulating coexistence : the creation of new discursive sites for the battle over GM crops -- 7. Co-producing frames, actors and knowledge
Summary
Governing environmental risk, particularly large-scale transboundary risks associated with climate change and pollution, is one of the most pressing problems facing society . This book focuses on a set of key questions relating to environmental regulation: How are activities regulated in a fragmented world - a world of nation states, regulators, domestic and international law and political contests - and one in which a range of actors, such as governments, corporations and NGOs act in order to influence regulations in specific policy areas? How are complex and trans-boundary environmental is
