Browsing Technology and Law Program by Issue Date
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The Importance of Taking Technological Innovation Into Account in Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Worker Health and Safety Regulation
(1997)Abstract Regulation of worker health and safety is acknowledged to result in health benefits to workers and economic costs to employers. The latter are sometimes shared by workers and consumers in the form of lower ... -
Porter Debate Stuck in 1970's
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Encouraging Inherently Safer Production in European Firms: A Report from the Field
(2000)Abstract It is now generally recognized that in order to make significant advances in accident prevention, the focus of industrial firms must shift from assessing the risks of existing production and manufacturing systems ... -
Technological, Organisational, and Social Innovation as Pathways to Sustainability
(The Steilmann Report: The Wealth of People: An Intelligent Economy for the 21st Century, 2001)The purposes of this chapter is to delve more deeply into the processes and determinants of technological, organisational, and social innovation and to discuss the instruments and policies to stimulate the kinds of innovation ... -
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Government and Innovation in Environmental Transformations in Europe and North America
(2002)ABSTRACT This article challenges certain tenets of the theories of reflexive law and ecological modernization. While far-sighted prevention-oriented and structural changes are needed, some proponents of these theories ... -
The Crisis in the U.S. and International Cancer Policy
(2002)The incidence of cancer in the United States and other major industrialized nations has escalated to epidemic proportions over recent decades, and greater increases are expected. While smoking is the single largest cause ... -
Low-Level Chemical Sensitivity: Implications for Research and Social Policy
(2002)Abstract There is increasingly evidence that human exposure to levels of chemicals once thought to be safe -- or presenting insignificant risk -- are, in fact, harmful. So-called low-level exposures are now known to be ... -
Implementing A Precautionary Approach in Decisions Affecting Health, Safety, and the Environment: Risk, Technology Alternatives, and Tradeoff Analysis
(2002-08-14)Abstract The precautionary principle is in sharp political focus today because (1) the nature of scientific uncertainty is changing and (2) there is increasing pressure to base governmental action on more "rational" ... -
The Feasibility of Encouraging Inherently Safer Production in Industrial Firms
(2003)Summary Inherent Safety is generally recognised as an important concept in the design of chemical plants. It is, however, often regarded as the sole province of engineers. Inspired by the successful development in the ... -
Major Challenges To Engineering Education for Sustainable Development: What Has to Change to Make it Creative, Effective, and Acceptable to the Established Disciplines
(2004)Scholars and professionals committed to fostering sustainable development have urged a re-examination of the curriculum and the restructuring of research in engineering-focused institutions of higher learning. The focus ...