The New Regulation and Governance of Food: Beyond the Food Crisis? (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)

The volume documents the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE (mad cow disease) crisis of the late 1990s. It provides a contemporary and (social science-based) interdisciplinary analysis of the new processes involved in the contested regulation and accountability for food in the EU. The book brings together a theoretical and empirical analysis and a new governance model of the 'post-BSE period' and assesses the changing nature of three sets of actors: private interests: such as the corporate retailers; public regulators such as the EU directorates (DG SANCO), Agriculture and Trade, as well as Member State actors such as DEFRA and the FSA; and the Consumer groups at EU and national levels. The analysis produces a new model and a new synthesis on food policy and regulation.Marsden. Lee. F is the author of 'The New Regulation and Governance of Food: Beyond the Food Crisis? (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)', published 2009 under ISBN 9780415956741 and ISBN 0415956749.