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The Regulation of Science and Technology

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Helen Lawton Smith

    1. Centre for Local Economic Development, Coventry Business School, Coventry University, UK
      Oxfordshire Economic Observatory, School of Geography and the Environment Oxford University, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in Regulation (STUDREG)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Context for Science and Technology Regulation

      • Helen Lawton Smith
      Pages 3-30

  4. The International Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. The Evolution of European Science and Technology Policy and its Links to the Cohesion Agenda

      • David R. Charles
      Pages 97-126

    3. The Creation of Harmonised Patent Protection in Europe

      • Gerald Paterson
      Pages 127-135

    4. How Has Tax Affected the Changing Cost of R&D? Evidence from Eight Countries

      • Nicholas Bloom, Lucy Chennells, Rachel Griffith, John Van Reenen
      Pages 136-160

    5. Reconstructing the Local and the Global: Europeanisation, Regulation and Changing Knowledge Relations

      • Henry Rothstein, Alan Irwin
      Pages 161-175

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 264-274
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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. Many millions elsewhere in South-East Asia and South America may soon suffer a similar fate. Venomous Earth is the story of this tragedy: the geology, the biology, the politics and the history. It starts in Ancient Greece, touches down in today's North America and takes in William Morris, alchemy, farming, medicine, mining and a cosmetic that killed two popes.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Local Economic Development, Coventry Business School, Coventry University, UK

    Helen Lawton Smith

  • Oxfordshire Economic Observatory, School of Geography and the Environment Oxford University, UK

    Helen Lawton Smith

About the editor

Andrew Meharg is Professor of Biogeochemistry at the University of Aberdeen where he studies and teaches on the impact of pollutants on the environment. His particular interest is how arsenic interacts with plants, animals and humans. In this capacity he has advised national and international government and aid bodies. Andrew has published numerous academic papers, book chapters and popular press articles on his research.

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