The nanotechnology challenge : creating legal institutions for uncertain risks / edited by David A. Dana.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dana, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nanostructured materials industry--Law and legislation.

Nanostructured materials industry.

Nanotechnology--Environmental aspects.

Nanotechnology.

Nanotechnology--Economic aspects.

Risk perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 429 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nanotechnology is the wave of the future, and has already been incorporated into everything from toothpaste to socks to military equipment. The safety of nanotechnology for human health and the environment is a great unknown, however, and no legal system in the world has yet devised a way to reasonably address the uncertain risks of nanotechnology. To do so will require creating new legal institutions. This volume of essays by leading law scholars and social and physical scientists offers a range of views as to how such institutions should be formed. It is essential reading for anyone who may wonder how we can continue to innovate technologically in a way that both delivers the benefits and sustains human health and the environment.

Contents:

PART I : INTRODUCTION: The nanotechnology challenge / David A. Dana

Five myths about nanotechnology in the current public policy debate : a science and engineering perspective / Kimberly A. Gray

PART II : PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY RISKS: Public acceptance and the regulation of emerging technologies : the role of private politics / Daniel Diermeier

How scientific evidence links attitudes to behaviors / James N. Druckman, Toby Bolsen

PART III : MEETING THE NANOTECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE BY CREATING NEW LEGAL INSTITUTIONS: Toward risk-based, adaptive regulatory definitions / David A. Dana

The missing market instrument : environmental assurance bonds and nanotechnology regulation / Douglas A. Kysar

Conditional liability relief as an incentive for precautionary study / David A. Dana

Transnational new governance and the international coordination of nanotechnology oversight / Gary E. Marchant [and others]

Labeling the little things / Jonathan H. Adler

Public nuisance : a potential common law response to nanotechnology's uncertain harms / Albert C. Lin

Enlarging the regulation of shrinking cosmetics and sunscreens / Robin Fretwell Wilson

Accelerating regulatory review / John O. McGinnis

The ethical issues in nanotechnology : persons and polity / Laurie Zoloth

PART IV : WHERE WE ARE NOW : THE CURRENT FRAMEWORK FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY REGULATION: An overview of the law of nanotechnology / Fern P. O'Brian

Regulatory responses to nanotechnology uncertainties / Read D. Porter [and others].

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-17946-2

1-107-22511-6

2-603-01248-7

1-107-44004-1

1-283-37850-7

9786613378507

1-139-18779-1

1-139-19038-5

1-139-18316-8

1-139-18548-9

0-511-98855-9

OCLC:

782876985