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Technocratic precautionary principle: Korean risk governance of mad cow disease

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This study investigates the multiplicity of sciences and the assemblage of technocracy with the precautionary principle (PP) in the Korean risk governance of mad cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy [BSE]). It conducts a policy typological analysis and a sociocultural analysis of the PP. Korean BSE policies are built on the technocratic PP. This principle emphasizes the scientific evidence of risk, although taking precautionary policy actions against BSE. This principle led to the absence of a total BSE inspection, a specified risk material policy for Korean cattle, a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point policy for beef processing and circulation, and an animal feed ban on nonruminants. Moreover, the BSE debate is not one about a unified science vs. a unified PP, but rather it concerns complex struggles between PPs in alliance with different sciences.

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  • Eun-Sung Kim, 2012. "Technocratic precautionary principle: Korean risk governance of mad cow disease," Journal of Risk Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(9), pages 1075-1100, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jriskr:v:15:y:2012:i:9:p:1075-1100
    DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2012.670131
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    1. Elizabeth Fisher & Judith Jones & René von Schomberg, 2006. "Implementing the Precautionary Principle: Perspectives and Prospects," Chapters, in: Elizabeth Fisher & Judith Jones & René von Schomberg (ed.), Implementing the Precautionary Principle, chapter 1, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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