Henrik Selin Knihy

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the management regime for hazardous chemicals, emphasizing its implications for effective multilevel governance across various sectors. It explores the frameworks and practices that can be adapted to enhance regulatory approaches in different contexts, providing valuable insights for policymakers and stakeholders involved in environmental governance and public health. Through detailed case studies and theoretical perspectives, it highlights the importance of collaborative strategies in managing complex regulatory challenges.

"Mercury offers an opportunity to trace a millennial-scale history of human interactions with an element whose use has both benefited and harmed human well-being in complex and interacting ways. The book develops and applies an analytical framework using the perspective of a human-technical-environmental system to learn from the long history of human mercury use and exposure, and to inform strategies--here done in story form--by which people can effect change towards greater sustainability"-- Provided by publisher