Transboundary Risk Governance (the Earthscan Risk In Society Series)

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Governing environmental risk, particularly large-scale transboundary risks associated with climate change and pollution, is one of the most pressing problems facing society . This book focuses on a set of key questions relating to environmental regulation: How are activities regulated in a fragmented world - a world of nation states, regulators, domestic and international law and political contests - and one in which a range of actors, such as governments, corporations and NGOs act in order to influence regulations in specific policy areas? How are complex and trans-boundary environmental issues managed? What role does expert knowledge play in regulating this kind of issues? What give rules authority? In short, how do actors try to render an issue governable? Drawing on regulation theory, discourse theory and science and technology studies, and employing original research, the authors analyse the regulation of four kinds of complex and trans-boundary environmental issues: oil protection in the Baltic Sea, mobile phones and radiation protection, climate change adaptation and genetically modified crops. The outcomes include insights for policymakers, regulators and researchers into how dominant frames are constructed, legitimate actors are configured and authority is established. This in turn exposes the conditions for, and possibility of, developing regulation, making authoritative rules and shaping relevant knowledge in order to govern complex environmental risks.

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Transboundary Risk Governance Rolf Lidskog, Linda Soneryd and Ylva Uggla with foreword by Alan Irwin Transboundary Risk Governance EARTHSCAN RISK IN SOCIETY SERIES Series editor: Ragnar E. Löfstedt Calculating Political Risk Catherine Althaus The Earthscan Reader on Risk Edited by Ragnar E. Löfstedt and Åsa Boholm The Ethics of Technological Risk Edited by Lotte Asveld and Sabine Roeser Facility Siting Risk, Power and Identity in Land-Use Planning Edited by Åsa Boholm and Ragnar E. Löfstedt Hazards, Vulnerability and Environmental Justice Susan L. Cutter The Perception of Risk Paul Slovic Risk Governance Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World Ortwin Renn Risk Management in Post-Trust Societies Ragnar E. Löfstedt Risk, Media and Stigma Understanding Public Challenges to Modern Science and Technology Edited by James Flynn, Paul Slovic and Howard Kunreuther Risk, Uncertainty and Rational Action Carlo C. Jaeger, Ortwin Renn, Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Webler The Social Contours of Risk (Volumes 1 & 2) Jeanne X. Kasperson and Roger E. Kasperson Social Trust and the Management of Risk Edited by George Cvetkovich and Ragnar E. Löfstedt The Tolerability of Risk A New Framework for Risk Management Edited by Frédéric Bouder, David Slavin and Ragnar E. Löfstedt Transboundary Risk Governance Rolf Lidskog, Linda Soneryd and Ylva Uggla Transboundary Risk Management Edited by Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Ragnar E. Löfstedt and Gunnar Sjöstedt Trust in Cooperative Risk Management Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind Edited by Michael Siegrist, Timothy C. Earle and Heinz Gutscher Uncertainty and Risk Multidisciplinary Perspectives Edited by Gabriele Bammer and Michael Smithson Transboundary Risk Governance Rolf Lidskog, Linda Soneryd and Ylva Uggla publishing for a sustainable future London • Sterling, VA First published by Earthscan in the UK and USA in 2010 Copyright © Rolf Lidskog, Linda Soneryd and Ylva Uggla, 2010 All rights reserved ISBN 978-1-84407-791-5 Typeset by JS Typesetting Ltd, Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan Cover design by Yvonne Booth For a full list of publications please contact: Earthscan Dunstan House 14a St Cross St London, EC1N 8XA, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7841 1930 Fax: +44 (0)20 7242 1474 Email: