The Nanotechnology Challenge
Creating Legal Institutions for Uncertain Risks
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- Editor: David A. Dana, Northwestern University, Illinois
- Date Published: November 2011
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521767385
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Nanotechnology is the wave of the future, and has already been incorporated into everything from toothpaste to socks to military equipment. The safety of nanotechnology for human health and the environment is a great unknown, however, and no legal system in the world has yet devised a way to reasonably address the uncertain risks of nanotechnology. To do so will require creating new legal institutions. This volume of essays by leading law scholars and social and physical scientists offers a range of views as to how such institutions should be formed. Readers will benefit from an accessible synthesis of the available science regarding the health risks posed by nanotechnology, thoughtful analyses of the potential unreliability of public perceptions of such risks, and a range of provocative proposals for creative “Third Way” approaches to regulating nanotechnology. This book is essential reading for anyone who may wonder how we can continue to innovate technologically in a way that both delivers the benefits and sustains human health and the environment.
Read more- This book focuses on how society can continue to reap economic and other benefits from nanotechnology
- It also addresses the possible risk to humans and the environment from nanotechnology
- Features contributions from leading scholars who offer a range of solutions to the challenge of regulating nanotechnology
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- Date Published: November 2011
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521767385
- length: 438 pages
- dimensions: 233 x 158 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.71kg
- contains: 13 b/w illus.
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction:
1. The nanotechnology challenge David A. Dana
2. The five myths about nanotechnology in the current public policy debate: a science and engineering perspective Kimberly Gray
Part II. Public Perceptions of Nanotechnology Risks:
3. Public regulation and the regulation of emerging technologies - the role of private politics Daniel Diermeier
4. How scientific evidence links attitudes to behaviors James N. Druckman and Toby Bolsen
Part III. Meeting the Nanotechnology Challenge by Creating New Legal Institutions:
5. Toward risk-based, adaptive regulatory definitions David A. Dana
6. The missing market instrument: environmental assurance bonds and nanotechnology regulation Douglas A. Kysar
7. Conditional liability relief as an incentive for precautionary study David A. Dana
8. Transnational new governance and the international coordination of nanotechnology oversight Gary E. Marchant, Kenneth W. Abbott, Douglas J. Sylvester and Lyn M. Gulley
9. Labeling the little things Jonathan H. Adler
10. Public nuisance: a potential common law response to nanotechnology's uncertain harms Albert C. Lin
11. Enlarging the regulation of shrinking cosmetics and sunscreens Robin Fretwell Wilson
12. Accelerating regulatory review John O. McGinnis
13. Ethical issues in nanotechnology: persons and polity Laurie Zoloth
Part IV. Where We Are Now - The Current Institutions for Nanotechnology Regulation:
14. An overview of the law of nanotechnology Fern O'Brian
15. Regulatory responses to nanotechnology uncertainties Read D. Porter, Linda Breggin, Robert Falkner, John Pendergrass and Nico Jaspers.
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