Risk and Food Safety in China and Japan: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Insights

ISBN-13: 9780367665494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 222 str.

Louis Augustin-Jean; Jean Pierre Poulain

Opis

Risk and Food Safety in China and Japan reframes the relationship between risk and food. This book will be an important resource for scholars, academics and policy-makers in the fields of sociology, economics, food studies, Chinese studies and Japanese studies and theories of risks and safety.

Spis treści

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Theoretical and Regulatory Framework

Chapter 1 Beyond Weak Signals Listening Theory: From Risk Analysis to the Management of Alimentary Concerns

Jean-Pierre Poulain

Chapter 2 Food Safety and Consumer Rationality: Is a "Food Pact" Possible?

Florent Champy

Chapter 3 Contemporary Food Crises: When Industrial Failure Meets State Impotence Vincent Simoulin

Part 2 Perspectives from Japan and China

Chapter 4 Revisiting Frank Knight: Risks and Uncertainties in the Context of Food Safety in Japan after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

Louis Augustin-Jean

Chapter 5 Essential Elements for Interactive Risk Communication in the Food-Related Emergencies: A Model and Experiments on the Health Effects of Radioactive Substances

Yoko Niiyama

Chapter 6 The Private-Public Complementary Relationship for Managing Catastrophic Risk in Egg Production and Marketing in Japan

Michitoshi Yamaguchi

Chapter 7 The Rise of a Risk-Based Approach to Implementing Food Safety Law in China

Yongkang An

Chapter 8 A Study on Peasant Behaviour and Peasant Niche in Contemporary China’s Agri-food Supply System: Evidence from Henan Province

Jinghan Ke and Shuji Hisano

Chapter 9 Food Risks? What Food Risks? – Gaps between Perception and Practice in Chinese Food Consumption

David Kurt Herold

Conclusion

Index

O autorze

Louis Augustin-Jean is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Research, the University of Paris-Nord (CEPN), France.

Jean-Pierre Poulain is a Professor at Toulouse University Jean Jaurès, France, and at Taylor's University, Malaysia.