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The Nanotechnology Challenge : Creating Legal Institutions for Uncertain Risks.
Offers views on how new legal institutions should be formed to address the uncertain risks of nanotechnology.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; THE NANOTECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; PART I Introduction; 1 The Nanotechnology Challenge; WHY THE UNCERTAIN RISKS WARRANT ATTENTION; WHY NEW LEGAL INSTITUTIONS ARE NEEDED TO ADDRESS THE UNCERTAIN RISKS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY; OUTLINE OF THIS VOLUME; 2 Five Myths about Nanotechnology in the Current Public Policy Debate: A Science and Engineering Perspective; INTRODUCTION; BACKGROUND; What Are Nanomaterials?; What Is Nanotechnology?; What Is Nanotoxicology?; NANO-MYTHS REVISITED; IMPLICATIONS FOR REGULATION; REFERENCES.
- PART II Public Perceptions of Nanotechnology Risks3 Public Acceptance and the Regulation of Emerging Technologies: The Role of Private Politics; THE EMERGENCE OF PRIVATE POLITICS; PRIVATE REGULATION; THE PRIVATE POLITICS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY; CREDIBILITY TRANSFER; CONCLUSION; 4 How Scientific Evidence Links Attitudes to Behaviors; NANOTECHNOLOGY ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS; EXPERIMENTAL PARTICIPANTS, PROCEDURE, AND DESIGN; RESULTS; CONCLUSION; Scores By Condition; REFERENCES; PART III Meeting the Nanotechnology Challenge by Creating New Legal Institutions.
- 5 Toward Risk-Based, Adaptive Regulatory DefinitionsTHE MOTIVATIONS BEHIND DEFINING NANOMATERIALS AND REGULATORY DEFINITIONS TO DATE; SCREENING CRITERIA AND OTHER COMPONENTS OF A DEFINITION; Size; A Long History of Production and Use; Intentionality/Engineered; Scope and Intensity of Intended Human Exposure; Physical Characteristics Other Than Size; Distinguishing among Nanomaterials; Regulatory Definition as Adaptive Management; CONCLUSION; 6 The Missing Market Instrument: Environmental Assurance Bonds and Nanotechnology Regulation; I. UNCERTAINTY AND COMPLEXITY IN THE ENVIRONMENT.
- Biophysical SystemsSocio-Legal Systems; II. UNCERTAINTY AND COMPLEXITY IN THE MIND; Rationality in Individual Choice36; Rationality in Social Choice; III. THE PROMISE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSURANCE BONDING; Symmetric Humility; Environmental Assurance Bonding; CONCLUSION; 7 Conditional Liability Relief as an Incentive for Precautionary Study; FRAMING THE NANOTECHNOLOGY PROBLEM; THE INFORMATION DEFICIT; THREE COMPONENTS OF A PRECAUTIONARY-STUDY APPROACH TO NANOTECHNOLOGY; Mandatory Testing and Monitoring Requirements; Public Funding; Voluntary Testing; MODELING MANUFACTURER DECISION MAKING.
- AssumptionsVariables: Damages (D) and Standard of Liability (S); Probability of Detection/Attribution (P) and Research Costs (R); COMPARING THE EXPECTED COSTS OF THE FOUR OPTIONS; Period 1, Pre-Market Investment; Period 2, Post-Market Investment; Combining Pre- and Post-Market Research; Comparing the Research Options; DECREASING THE LIKELIHOOD OF LIABILITY-DRIVEN AVOIDANCE OF POST-MARKET TESTING; WHICH PRODUCTS WILL BE THE SUBJECT OF VOLUNTARY TESTING?; Products Containing Identical or Substantially Identical Materials or Technology.