Organized denial at work: The difficult search for consistencies in French pesticide regulation. Dedieu, F. Regulation and Governance, 2021. doi abstract bibtex Why does it always take a long time to acknowledge environmental hazards such as climate change or air pollution, even when knowledge on their dangers has been available for years? Drawing on the case of French pesticide regulation, this article shows that this gap between knowledge and consequent action results not only from secretive corporate leverage on public decisions and expertise but also from the expertise and bureaucratic machinery behind pesticide regulation. This machinery fosters an organized denial where regulators systematically exclude uncomfortable knowledge that could challenge official risk assessment. Organized denial that legally maintains ignorance fulfills an implicit function. It preserves the legitimacy of the risk management system and, through it, the administrative and commercial organization of agricultural production in France. © 2021 John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd
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title = {Organized denial at work: {The} difficult search for consistencies in {French} pesticide regulation},
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abstract = {Why does it always take a long time to acknowledge environmental hazards such as climate change or air pollution, even when knowledge on their dangers has been available for years? Drawing on the case of French pesticide regulation, this article shows that this gap between knowledge and consequent action results not only from secretive corporate leverage on public decisions and expertise but also from the expertise and bureaucratic machinery behind pesticide regulation. This machinery fosters an organized denial where regulators systematically exclude uncomfortable knowledge that could challenge official risk assessment. Organized denial that legally maintains ignorance fulfills an implicit function. It preserves the legitimacy of the risk management system and, through it, the administrative and commercial organization of agricultural production in France. © 2021 John Wiley \& Sons Australia, Ltd},
journal = {Regulation and Governance},
author = {Dedieu, F.},
year = {2021},
keywords = {PRINTED (Fonds papier), denial, ignorance, pesticides, regulation, regulatory science, uncomfortable knowledge},
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