REACH and the Environmental Regulation of Nanotechnology
REACH and the Environmental Regulation of Nanotechnology presents a thorough and comprehensive legal analysis on the status of nanoscale chemicals under the EUs REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction) regulation, asking whether it effectively safeguards human health and environmental protection.
This book examines the European Commissions claim that REACH offers the best possible framework for the risk management of nanomaterials. Through a detailed and meticulous analysis of the four phases of REACH, Kuraj assesses the capacity of the Regulation to protect human health and the environment against the potential harms associated with exposure to nanomaterials, and draws attention to the ways in which the specificities of nanoscale chemicals are (not) tackled by the current REACH framework. Overall, this book is an innovative and timely contribution to the ongoing debate on how to best address the unprecedented risks posed by the growing pursuit of nano-technological innovation by the EU and global policy agenda.
REACH and the Environmental Regulation of Nanotechnology will be of great interest to advanced students and scholars of environmental law and policy, environmental governance, science and technology studies, and environment and health.
Nertila Kuraj is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, Norway, and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley School of Law.
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REACH and the Environmental Regulation of Nanotechnology
Preventing and Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Nanomaterials
Nertila Kuraj
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This book is dedicated to Professor Hans Christian Bugge, and to him only in the unshaken believe that Care, the unifying element of life on Earth, remains the sole and ultimate revolutionary act.
March 2019
UC Berkeley School of Law
Contents
This book is based on my PhD thesis which I defended at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway, in May 2017. I owe a debt of gratitude to many people whose presence and support was essential in the process of turning a thesis into an academic volume.
Special thanks of infinite gratitude go to my PhD supervisors, Professors Hans Christian Bugge and Christina Voigt for their seemingly endless patience and constant trust in me and my academic pursuits. I feel proud and privileged to be their student.
I am grateful to my PhD reviewing committee, Professors Elen Stokes, Steffen Foss Hansen, and Hans Petter Graver, for positively evaluating my thesis and contributing thus to the publishing of this book. Thank you!
Thanks are to be extended to the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research (Kunnskapsdepartementet) for generously funding my PhD position, which was based at the Department of Public and International Law, UiO. At the Law Faculty in Oslo, I would like to thank Professors Inger Johanne Sand and Dag Michalsen for their assistance during the many stages of this long process.
Many thanks also to Guro Frostestad and Marianne Gjerstad for their administrative support.
In Oslo I had the great fortune of meeting wonderful people that have brought joy and richness to my life. Without the genuine friendship and the academic inspiration precious Amrei Mller provides, this book would simply not have been possible. My research has greatly benefited from our many academic debates, her invaluable feedback on my work, and the sharing of nice food and coffee during beautiful summer evenings and crispy winter days in lovely Oslo. I am grateful to her also for showing me that strength resides in kindness and that integrity is everything. My environmental-sister and wonderful colleague, Elonore Maitre-Ekern, has been a trusted and precious friend from the very beginning and I am grateful she has remained such during all these stormy years. Her excellent academic feedback and her profound humanity and uncompromising attitude have been a great source of strength. This book would not have been finished without her. I look forward to exciting collaborations in our common field of research and in the shared commitment for a better and greener planet.
To fantastic Marte Guttulsrd, the green girl par excellence, I owe special thanks for being always a true friend. Her deeply caring nature has been a balm of courage and healing even in the most difficult of moments. The Babettes feasts we often shared and the time spent in picturesque spots of the breath-taking Norwegian nature, are moments I cherish and look forward to repeating again soon.
