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The 'perfect storm' of REACH: charting regulatory controversy in the age of information, sustainable development, and globalization
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The European Union's new chemicals regulation, REACH, has been one of the most controversial pieces of legislation in EU history. Indeed, the debate over REACH is akin to a 'perfect storm' in that the intense controversy over it has been caused by three regulatory aspects of the regime. First, REACH privatizes information collection, provision and assessment. Second, REACH represents a significant application of sustainable development and in so doing, redefines the conditions on which the EU...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Routledge Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Risk Research Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 541-563
- Publication date:
- 2008-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1466-4461
- ISSN:
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1366-9877
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- Taylor & Francis
- Copyright date:
- 2008
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- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Fisher, E. (2008). 'The 'perfect storm' of REACH: charting regulatory controversy in the age of information, sustainable development, and globalization', Journal of Risk Research 11(4), 541-563. [Available at http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1366-9877&volume=11&issue=4&spage=541].
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