Food, risk and politics : Scare, scandal and crisis - insights into the risk politics of food safety /
This is a book about the risk politics of food safety. Food-related risks regularly grab the headlines in ways that threaten reasoned debate and obstruct sensible policy making. In this book, Ed Randall explains why this is the case. He goes on to make the case for a properly informed and fully open...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This is a book about the risk politics of food safety. Food-related risks regularly grab the headlines in ways that threaten reasoned debate and obstruct sensible policy making. In this book, Ed Randall explains why this is the case. He goes on to make the case for a properly informed and fully open public debate about food safety issues. He argues that this is the true antidote to the politics of scare, scandal and crisis. The book skilfully weaves together the many different threads of food safety and risk politics and offers a particularly rewarding read for academics and students in the fi. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (241 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781847793355 1847793355 9781781702918 1781702918 |