The nanotechnology challenge : creating legal institutions for uncertain risks

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Publication Information:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012

Physical Description:

viii, 429 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

ISBN:

9780521767385

Abstract:

"This book is about nanotechnology, very tiny substances that are manipulated to act in all sorts of extraordinary ways, and that many think have or are about to usher in the next industrial revolution. The focus of the book is how society can continue to reap economic and other benefits from nanotechnology, while addressing the possible risk to human and the environment from nanotechnology. Leading scholars offer a range of solutions to the challenge of regulating nanotechnology in a way that allows for continued fast innovation worldwide while making certain we limit or avoid the possible harms from nanotechnology"--Provided by publisher

Subject Term:

Nanostructured materials industry -- Law and legislation

Nanotechnology -- Environmental aspects

Nanotechnology -- Economic aspects

Risk perception

Added Author:

Dana, David

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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.

Author Notes

David A. Dana is Associate Dean for Faculty Research and the Stanford Clinton Sr. and Zylpha Kilbride Clinton Research Professor of Law at Northwestern University. He is the cofounder and codirector of the Northwestern University Institute for Sustainable Practices and a Faculty Fellow at the Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University. Dana, the author of more than thirty articles on environmental law and policy, has been published in numerous journals, including Harvard Environmental Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Ecology Law Journal, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He is a former litigator for the U.S. Department of Justice and for Wilmer Hale (formerly Wilmer, Cutler Pickering).

David A. DanaKimberly A. GrayDaniel DiermeierJames N. Druckman and Toby BolsenDavid A. DanaDouglas A. KysarDavid A. DanaGary E. Marchant and Kenneth W. Abbott and Douglas J. Sylvester and Lyn M. GulleyJonathan H. AdlerAlbert C. LinRobin Fretwell WilsonJohn O. McGinnisLaurie ZolothFern P. O'BrianRead D. Porter and Linda Breggin and Robert Falkner and John Pendergrass and Nico Jaspers

Contributors	p. vii
Part 1 Introduction
1 The Nanotechnology Challenge	p. 3
2 Five Myths about Nanotechnology in the Current Public Policy Debate: A Science and Engineering Perspective	p. 11
Part II Public Perceptions of Nanotechnology Risks
3 Public Acceptance and the Regulation of Emerging Technologies: The Role of Private Politics	p. 63
4 How Scientific Evidence Links Attitudes to Behaviors	p. 84
Part III Meeting the Nanotechnology Challenge by Creating New Legal Institutions
5 Toward Risk-Based, Adaptive Regulatory Definitions	p. 105
6 The Missing Market Instrument: Environmental Assurance Bonds and Nanotechnology Regulation	p. 117
7 Conditional Liability Relief as an Incentive for Precautionary Study	p. 144
8 Transnational New Governance and the International Coordination of Nanotechnology Oversight	p. 179
9 Labeling the Little Things	p. 203
10 Public Nuisance: A Potential Common Law Response to Nanotechnology's Uncertain Harms	p. 225
11 Enlarging the Regulation of Shrinking Cosmetics and Sunscreens	p. 250
12 Accelerating Regulatory Review	p. 309
13 The Ethical Issues in Nanotechnology: Persons and the Polity	p. 337
Part IV Where We Are Now-The Current Framework for Nanotechnology Regulation
14 An Overview of the Law of Nanotechnology	p. 357
15 Regulatory Responses to Nanotechnology Uncertainties	p. 379
Index	p. 417

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