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  30. how that debate served to motivate and shift the focus of regulatory reform which
  31. led to the Gene Technology Act 2000 (Cth) (GTA).
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  36. natural risks. Yet the traditionally prescriptive and cumbersome process of
  37. regulatory reform is ill-suited to the pace and transient nature of scientific
  38. innovation. Consequently, legislatures have developed a new legislative form,
  39. risk governance, designed to provide a more flexible scientifically based
  40. response to novel technologies. This form of legislation is exemplified by the
  41. GTA. Yet risk governance has proved to create problems of its own. Maintaining
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  49. society. Lack of trust was a major theme throughout the Australian gene
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  52. been the inception of risk communication, a process that encourages public
  53. involvement in risk analysis. Unfortunately, best practice risk communication has
  54. tended to be promulgated in policy but avoided in practice - something revealed
  55. with the commercialisation of gene technology. This has resulted in increased
  56. pressure to put promise into practice by institutionalising participatory risk
  57. communication principles within risk governance. I have referred to this more
  58. democratic regulatory form as 'deliberative risk governance'.
  59. The GTA was enacted with the promise that it would involve the public in all
  60. aspects of regulating risks posed by gene technology. I consider how we arrived
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  101. been the inception of risk communication, a process that encourages public
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  226.     <h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Gene technology, risk, regulation and communication</h1>
  227.     <p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Gogarty, Brendan</span> (2005) <xhtml:em>Gene technology, risk, regulation and communication.</xhtml:em> PhD thesis, University of Tasmania.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a onmouseover="EPJS_ShowPreview( event, 'doc_preview_1203' );" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1041/1/bgogarty_PhD_2006_front-matter.pdf" onmouseout="EPJS_HidePreview( event, 'doc_preview_1203' );"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a><div class="ep_preview" id="doc_preview_1203"><table><tr><td><img alt="" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1041/thumbnails/1/preview.png" class="ep_preview_image" border="0" /><div class="ep_preview_title">Preview</div></td></tr></table></div></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1041/1/bgogarty_PhD_2006_front-matter.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF (Front Matter)</span></a> - Requires a PDF viewer<br />177Kb</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a onmouseover="EPJS_ShowPreview( event, 'doc_preview_1204' );" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1041/2/bgogarty_PhD_2006_print2.pdf" onmouseout="EPJS_HidePreview( event, 'doc_preview_1204' );"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a><div class="ep_preview" id="doc_preview_1204"><table><tr><td><img alt="" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1041/thumbnails/2/preview.png" class="ep_preview_image" border="0" /><div class="ep_preview_title">Preview</div></td></tr></table></div></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1041/2/bgogarty_PhD_2006_print2.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF (Whole Thesis)</span></a> - Requires a PDF viewer<br />2092Kb</td></tr></table><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">This thesis examines the social, political and legal basis for the establishment of a
  228. national regime for the oversight of risks posed by gene technology in Australia.
  229. It provides an overview of the public debate about gene technology and considers
  230. how that debate served to motivate and shift the focus of regulatory reform which
  231. led to the Gene Technology Act 2000 (Cth) (GTA).
  232. The debate about gene technology belies a much deeper social preoccupation with
  233. novel risk generally - something described by risk theorists as the 'risk society'.
  234. This risk society has placed pressure on legislatures to manage the perceived risks
  235. posed by novel technologies or to use novel technologies to manage man-made or
  236. natural risks. Yet the traditionally prescriptive and cumbersome process of
  237. regulatory reform is ill-suited to the pace and transient nature of scientific
  238. innovation. Consequently, legislatures have developed a new legislative form,
  239. risk governance, designed to provide a more flexible scientifically based
  240. response to novel technologies. This form of legislation is exemplified by the
  241. GTA. Yet risk governance has proved to create problems of its own. Maintaining
  242. regulatory flexibility necessitates that rule making is virtually, if not officially,
  243. undertaken outside of the parliamentary process. Furthermore, because risk
  244. governance adopts a scientifically based assessment and management process
  245. (risk analysis) it must co-opt technical specialists (the subjects of regulation) into
  246. the decision making process. These factors have contributed to risk governance
  247. being perceived as anti-democratic in some quarters. Such perceptions are agitated
  248. by a growing distrust of technocrat's ability to serve the public interest in the risk
  249. society. Lack of trust was a major theme throughout the Australian gene
  250. technology debate.
  251. The response to public distrust in technocratic oversight of novel technology has
  252. been the inception of risk communication, a process that encourages public
  253. involvement in risk analysis. Unfortunately, best practice risk communication has
  254. tended to be promulgated in policy but avoided in practice - something revealed
  255. with the commercialisation of gene technology. This has resulted in increased
  256. pressure to put promise into practice by institutionalising participatory risk
  257. communication principles within risk governance. I have referred to this more
  258. democratic regulatory form as 'deliberative risk governance'.
  259. The GTA was enacted with the promise that it would involve the public in all
  260. aspects of regulating risks posed by gene technology. I consider how we arrived
  261. at such a system, if it matters and whether the promise of deliberative risk
  262. governance is real, efficacious and genuine within this act.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Thesis (PhD)</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Law, Regulation, Legislation, Gene Technology, Regulatory Theory, Regulatory
  263. Reform, Gene Technology Act 2000, Risk, Risk Theory, Risk Governance,
  264. Deliberative Risk Governance, Regulatory Communication, Risk Communication,
  265. Public Involvement, Consultation, Public Engagement, Science &amp; Society, Risk
  266. Society, Blame Society, Australia</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/390100.html">390000 Law, Justice and Law Enforcement &gt; 390100 Law</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">1041</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">UTas Digital Archives Librarian</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">17 May 2007</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=1041;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&amp;eprintid=1041">item control page</a></p>
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