Nanotechnology Challenge (eBook, PDF)

Creating Legal Institutions for Uncertain Risks
Redaktion: Dana, David A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. It 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139180597
• Artikelnr.: 38277892

Inhaltsangabe

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.