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Jens Evans1, Graham Wood, Anne Miller
1School of Biological and Molecular Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, OX3 0BP, UK. jevans@brookes.ac.uk
Abstract:
Risk-based regulation assumes that risk assessment can evaluate risks against policy objectives. However, policy goals are often ambiguous and require risk assessors to interpret them for use in risk assessment. This risk assessment-policy gap stems partly from normative and imprecise policy language but is rooted more fundamentally in society's uncertain expectations for the environment. Until this uncertainty is resolved, the democratic and regulatory effectiveness of risk regulation will be undermined by ad hoc policy decisions abdicated to risk assessors.
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