2w1: ‘Risk Governance in the Transition towards Sustainability: The Case of Bio-based Plastic Food Packaging Materials

Abstract

In the transition to a sustainable society, many new technologies and materials are developed. These often have disadvantages, examples thereof with a sustainability claim that entailed risks to public health are identified. Risk Governance should ideally address and deal with those potential risks. However, governance mechanisms to efficiently deal with these risks seem to be lacking.