The New Regulation and Governance of Food: Beyond the Food Crisis?

by Marsden; Terry

• ISBN13: 9780415956741
• ISBN10: 0415956749
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The volume documents the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE (mad cow disease) crisis of the late 1990s. It provides a contemporary and (social science-based) interdisciplinary analysis of the new processes involved in the contested regulation and accountability for food in the EU. The book brings together a theoretical and empirical analysis and a new governance model of the 'post-BSE period' and assesses the changing nature of three sets of actors: private interests: such as the corporate retailers; public regulators such as the EU directorates (DG SANCO), Agriculture and Trade, as well as Member State actors such as DEFRA and the FSA; and the Consumer groups at EU and national levels. The analysis produces a new model and a new synthesis on food policy and regulation.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The BRASS Approach: Interdisciplinary Studies of Food Regulation, Governance and Accountability

Crisis, what Crisis?

The Anatomy of the Food Crisis

Components of the Crisis : Handling Biosecurity Risk: The Case of the Foot and Mouth Epidemic 2001

Components of the Crisis: State Failures and Failures of the State

Components of the Crisis: Consumer Sovereignty and the Regulatory History of the European Market for Genetically Modified Foods

A New Regulatory Terrain: Dimensions of Contested Accountability and Regulation

Contested Regulation and Accountability: The Emerging Model in Europe

Contested Regulation and Accountability: The Emerging Model in the UK

The New Institutional Fabric: The Public Management and Communication of Food Risks

Key Conceptual Dimensions: Food Risk and Precaution: The Precautionary Principle in Practice

Key Conceptual Dimensions: The quest of Ecological Modernisation: Respacing Rural Development and Agri-Food Studies

Conclusions: New Conceptual and Empirical Challenges

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