Food risks and the environment: Changing perspectives in a changing social order

Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 185-195

  Mol, Arthur P J ^a   Bulkeley, Harriet ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agrofood systems; Environment; Food regimes; Food risks; Reflexive modernity; Risk management; Scientific uncertainties

Indexed keywords

EID: 7044265107     PISSN: 1523908X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jepp.109     Document Type: Review

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