Product Description: How are pharmaceutical technologies developed and controlled in our societies? To what extent should the availability of these technologies be determined by scientific experts, a democratic state, the interests of final users, or ethical principles? This unique collection brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists, lawyers and policy analysts on regulation, ethics and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A discussion of integrated transport policy and related issues. The inspiration for this work was provided by the Regulatory Policy Research Centre's seminar on "Integrated Transport Policy: Implications for Regulation and Competition" held at Hertford College, the University of Oxford, in September 1998...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 02 This book is based on a seminar held at Oxford University in September 1997. It took place following the election of the first Labour government for 17 years and following the announcement of the consultation process leading up the publication of a Transport White Paper...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The book is based on papers given at the final workshop of a research project into the evolution of environmental regulation in Poland undertaken as part of the UKs ERSC Global Environmental Change Programme. Other invited papers focused on the development of regulatory policy in transforming economies and in the UK...read more