Verbruggen, Paul; Havinga, Tetty --- "Hybridization of Food Governance" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) [2017] ELECD 623

Editor(s): Verbruggen, Paul; Havinga, Tetty

Title: Hybridization of Food Governance

Sub-title: Trends, Types and Results

Topics: Environmental Law; Regulation and Governance

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 28 April 2017

Number of pages: c 328

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785361692

EISBN: 9781785361708

Abstract/Description:

Modern food governance is increasingly hybrid, involving not only government, but also industry and civil society actors. This book deftly analyzes the unfolding interplay between public and private actors in global and local food governance.

Split into three parts, chapters focus on the legitimacy and integrity of private food governance, the hybridization of EU Food Law and hybridization in transnational food governance. Within these key areas, food scholars from diverse disciplinary fields present a fascinating array of original empirical case studies, showing hybrid governance arrangements in China, Europe and North America. Through these practical examples, they consider in detail how the responsibilities and risks inherent in these arrangements are allocated, how their legitimacy is ensured and the effect that they have on industry and government practice.

Timely and discerning, this book will appeal to legal students and scholars focusing on regulation and governance and, in particular, those considering its relation to food. It will also provide guidance to policymakers on how to shape and direct the trends, types and outcomes of hybrid food governance.