This volume presents research on current trends in chemical regulations a fa- growing, complex, and increasingly internationalized field. The book grew out from a multidisciplinary research project entitled Regulating Chemical Risks in the Baltic Sea Area: Science, Politics, and the Media, led by Michael Gilek at Sodertorn University, Sweden. This research project involved scholars and experts from natural as well as social sciences, based at Sodertorn University, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Karolinska Institutet, and Umea University. The project group organized a...

This edited volume presents a comprehensive and coherent interdisciplinary analysis of challenges and possibilities for sustainable governance of the Baltic Sea ecosystem by combining knowledge and approaches from natural and social sciences.