- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1 The Problem with Chemicals
- I Chemical Control Policies
- 2 Regulating Hazardous Chemicals
- 3 Reassessing Chemical Control Policies
- II Reframing Chemical Policies
- 4 Considering New Initiatives
- 5 Reframing the Chemicals Problem
- 6 Understanding the Chemical Economy
- III A Chemical Conversion Strategy
- 7 Driving the Chemical Market
- 8 Transforming the Chemical Industry
- 9 Designing Greener Chemistry
- IV Safer Chemical Policies
- 10 Characterizing and Prioritizing Chemicals
- 11 Generating Chemical Information
- 12 Substituting Safer Chemicals
- 13 Developing Safer Alternatives
- 14 Drafting Safer Chemical Policies
- V Chemicals without Harm
- 15 Reconstructing Government Capacity
- 16 Solving the Chemicals Problem
- Bibliography
- Index
- Urban and Industrial Environments
Reconstructing Government Capacity
Reconstructing Government Capacity
- Chapter:
- (p.315) 15 Reconstructing Government Capacity
- Source:
- Chemicals without Harm
- Author(s):
Ken Geiser
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
Government initiatives could be one of the elements of a chemical conversion strategy and could do so without new laws. Government agencies could work with economic sectors, states, non-government organizations and foreign and international governments to promote shifts towards safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals. Restructuring government agencies to create a central chemicals agency such as the European Chemicals Agency would create a central focus for chemical policy. Effectively reforming the existing chemical control laws or passing new statutes could be helpful, but is currently unlikely.
Keywords: Chemical policy, economic sector working groups, cooperative government/industry agreements, statutory reform, government agency restructuring, EChA, chemicals agency
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1 The Problem with Chemicals
- I Chemical Control Policies
- 2 Regulating Hazardous Chemicals
- 3 Reassessing Chemical Control Policies
- II Reframing Chemical Policies
- 4 Considering New Initiatives
- 5 Reframing the Chemicals Problem
- 6 Understanding the Chemical Economy
- III A Chemical Conversion Strategy
- 7 Driving the Chemical Market
- 8 Transforming the Chemical Industry
- 9 Designing Greener Chemistry
- IV Safer Chemical Policies
- 10 Characterizing and Prioritizing Chemicals
- 11 Generating Chemical Information
- 12 Substituting Safer Chemicals
- 13 Developing Safer Alternatives
- 14 Drafting Safer Chemical Policies
- V Chemicals without Harm
- 15 Reconstructing Government Capacity
- 16 Solving the Chemicals Problem
- Bibliography
- Index
- Urban and Industrial Environments
