The New Regulation and Governance of Food: Beyond the Food Crisis?

ISBN-13: 9780415956741 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 364 str.

Lee F. Marsden;Marsden Terry

Opis

The volume documents the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE (mad cow disease) crisis of the late 1990s. It provides a contemporary and (social science-based) interdisciplinary analysis of the new processes involved in the contested regulation and accountability for food in the EU. The book brings together a theoretical and empirical analysis and a new governance model of the 'post-BSE period' and assesses the changing nature of three sets of actors: private interests: such as the corporate retailers; public regulators such as the EU directorates (DG SANCO), Agriculture and Trade, as well as Member State actors such as DEFRA and the FSA; and the Consumer groups at EU and national levels. The analysis produces a new model and a new synthesis on food policy and regulation.

Spis treści

Preface.  Methodological Note.  Section 1: Exploring the Anatomy of the Food Crisis  1. The Anatomy of the Food Crisis: Regulating the Risk of Geographies of Agri-Food in the 21st Century  2. Handling Biosecurity Risk: The Foot and Mouth Outbreak 2001  3. Genetic Disorders: Resistance, Regulation and GM Food and Feed  Section 2: The Evolving Hybrid Model  4. State Failures and Failures of the State  5. A New Regulatory Terrain: The Emerging Public/Private Model in Europe  6. Building Relationships in a New Phase of Contested Accountability in the UK: Incorporating the New Public-Private Model of Food Regulation  Section 3: Operating the Hybrid Model: Case Studies of Regulatory Supply Chains  7. The Cutting Edge of Retail Grocery Competition: The Case of the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chain  8. The Operation of the Hybrid Model: The Case of Red Meat  Section 4: Key Contemporary Dynamics of Regulation  9. The New Institutional Fabric: The Public Management of Food Risks  10. Food risk and Precaution: The Precautionary Principle in Practice  11. From Europeanisation to Globalisation of the Public-Private Model of Food Regulation  12. Conclusions

O autorze

Terry Marsden, Robert Lee, Andrew Flynn and Samarthia Thankappan are all affiliated with the ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society at Cardiff University.