Transboundary Risk Governance

, by Lidskog, Rolf; Soneryd, Linda; Uggla, Ylva

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ISBN: 9781844077915 | 1844077918
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/31/2009

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This book focuses on a set of key questions relating to environmental regulation. How are activities regulated in a fragmented world where governments, corporations, NGOs and others influence regulations in specific policy areas? How are complex and transboundary environmental issues managed? What role does expert knowledge play in regulating these issues? What gives rules authority? In short, how do actors try to render an issue governable?

About the authors	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
List of abbreviations	p. xix
Regulating Risk in a Fragmented World	p. 1
A regulatory renaissance?	p. 1
Towards political destabilization?	p. 4
Or towards political stabilization?	p. 6
Towards cognitive destabilization?	p. 8
Or towards cognitive stabilization?	p. 10
Research design	p. 11
Outline of the book	p. 15
Making Rules and Shaping Knowledge	p. 17
Making rules	p. 18
Who make rules?	p. 18
What should be regulated?	p. 21
Shaping knowledge	p. 22
Contested knowledge and epistemic authority	p. 24
The shaping of agency in regulatory processes	p. 26
Frames and narratives	p. 27
Conclusion: Frames, actors and knowledge	p. 29
Mobile Telephony and Radiation Protection: Regulating Risk or Local Self-Governance	p. 31
Science and regulations on radiofrequency electromagnetic fields	p. 33
The scientific controversy and its closures	p. 34
International and European guidelines and recommendations	p. 35
A common Nordic approach	p. 37
The controversy in Sweden: The meaning and scope of knowledge and rules	p. 38
Testing the boundaries of the law and the precautionary principle	p. 39
Precautionary debates at another arena	p. 42
Concluding discussion	p. 47
Notes	p. 51
Oil Transport in the Baltic Sea: Environmental Protection and the Freedom of the High Seas	p. 53
Regulation of the sea transport of oil and the notion of PSSA	p. 54
The impact of tanker disasters	p. 55
The PSSA guidelines	p. 56
The designation of the "Western European waters as a PSSA	p. 57
The Baltic Sea as a PSSA	p. 59
The PSSA process - a review	p. 59
The Baltic Sea - a sea at risk	p. 61
PSSA - a Swedish concern?	p. 62
The role and scope of associated protective measures	p. 64
Definition of actors, roles and competences	p. 65
Concluding discussion	p. 67
Notes	p. 70
Climate Change Adaptation: Regulation under Formation	p. 73
The framing of climate change and climate adaptation	p. 74
International regulatory framework	p. 75
Defining climate change: Distinctions, expectations and implications	p. 77
The notion of adaptation	p. 78
Climate change adaptation in Sweden	p. 79
Climate change adaptation: A disregarded issue	p. 79
The creation of an informal network	p. 81
The Government Commission on Climate and Vulnerability	p. 82
Climate adaptation - actors, issues and responsibilities	p. 84
The distinction between climate variability and climate change	p. 85
The municipalities and climate change adaptation	p. 86
Concluding discussion	p. 87
Notes	p. 89
Regulating Coexistence: The Creation of New Discursive Sites for the Battle over GM Crops	p. 91
Regulatory developments in the EU and the turn towards 'coexistence'	p. 92
EC recommendation: National rules for coexistence	p. 95
Rationales behind diverging coexistence policies	p. 97
The rationale behind Sweden's proposed coexistence measures	p. 98
The Swedish process for deciding on coexistence measures	p. 99
'Trust in numbers' and the shaping of relevant knowledge	p. 101
Questioning the rationale behind the proposed safety measures	p. 102
How to improve public involvement and ensure consumer choice	p. 105
Concluding discussion	p. 107
Notes	p. 109
Co-producing Frames, Actors and Knowledge	p. 113
Characterizing the regulatory fields studied	p. 114
Frames and controlling narratives	p. 118
The construction of agency	p. 122
Establishing epistemic authority	p. 125
Concluding discussion	p. 131
References	p. 133
Index	p. 147
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