environmental and
regulatory
sustainability
Wyn Grant
Department of Politics and
International Studies
University of Warwick
Team members
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Wyn Grant
Dave Chandler
Mark Tatchell
Gillian Prince
Justin Greaves
The research challenge
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Consumers, retailers and
environmentalists would like to see
less use of chemical pesticides in
food production
The potential solution
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A sustainable solution is to be
found in the greater use of bioinsecticides, e.g., naturally
occurring fungi that attract insects
The problem
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Commercial use of such solutions
is not extensive. Why?
Framing the problem
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Market failure issues are one
possible explanation and are
considered by another project
Our focus is on government
‘failure’
The scientific challenge
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Risk assessment challenges
remain. Do bio-pesticides persist
in the environment when released
on a large scale?
Our model system
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We are using controls of aphids in
lettuce as a model system
Our analytical
framework
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We are analysing the regulatory
system within a broader model of
the regulatory state
Key questions
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Is the regulatory system principally
designed to handle chemical
insecticides?
Could changes in regulatory
design facilitate wider use of biopesticides?
A comparator
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Britain has a retailer led system of
private governance in the food
chain
Denmark places greater reliance
on a statutory framework
Our overall objective
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Make a broadly based assessment
of benefits and costs of
contribution of bio-pesticides to
sustainability
Introduction
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