Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and

The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, expla

Laws and regulations affect the daily lives of businesses and citizens. It is important that they are designed in a way that takes account of their social, envi

The precautionary principle provides a justification to act where scientific uncertainty about the nature and extent of detected indications of harm would other

This publication presents recent OECD papers on risk and regulatory policy. They offer measures for developing, or improving, coherent risk governance policies.