International Year
of Chemistry – 2011
This Special Edition of
EcoLomic Policy and Law
provides an innovative study of the broad
issue of chemicals and wastes by uniting a number of
different but complementary
and interconnected
risk management perspectives that cut across
the articles: (I) at the regulatory level the
publication benefits from the experience of the
authors in the negotiation, and in the policy and
legal analysis of multilateral environmental
agreements and organizations; (II) with
regard to environmentally sound management it
suggests a path toward a coherent framework, it
emphasizes the significance of technical
cooperation, and it contains a case study which
addresses many of the practical challenges; (III) at
the governance level it focuses on the creation and
the role of SAICM, and on the historic joint 'Extraordinary
Conference of the Parties' of the chemicals and
wastes conventions in Bali in February 2010,
followed by UNEP’s Governing Council in Special
Session. We hope that the combination of these risk
management
perspectives will make a constructive contribution
to the upcoming International Year of Chemistry
2011.
New Guidebook to global chemicals management
cooperation:
Chemicals, Environment, Health -
A Global Management Perspective
Edited by
Philip Wexler
Jan van der Kolk
Asish Mohapatra
Ravi Agarwal
Boca Raton, London, New York, CRC Press/Taylor &
Francis Group
http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781420084696;jsessionid=j4z2m5CTaD1x5Uq96RJgtg**
2012, 821 p.