Changing Regulation: Controlling Risks in Society

by Andrew Hale, Andrew Hopkins, Barry Kirwan

Safety regulation is society's way of keeping the genie of technology in the bottle, whilst still exploiting its power for creating wealth and change. It is a difficult compromise to make. Regulators often have a thankless task. If all seems to go well they are painted as too repressive and anti-technological; if disaster strikes, the searchlight of media attention increasingly focuses on them, looking for lax enforcement, blind eyes being turned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0080441262
• ISBN13: 9780080441269
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"