Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety

CHAPTER 3 Global Perspectives on the Oversight of Nanotechnologies

Diana M. Bowman

CONTENTS

• Shaping Behavior Through Regulation: Subtle and Not So Subtle Approaches

• Key Lessons and Recommendations of Regulatory Reviews to Date

• Multi-Lateral and Multi-Party Initiatives: The Story So Far

• Moving Forward Amidst Uncertainty

• References

Fifty years have now passed since Professor Richard Feynman presented his now legendary lecture, There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom: An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics, to the 1959 annual meeting of the American Physical Society. During the course of his evening address, the Nobel Prize winning physicist eloquently presented his vision for “manoeuvring things atom by atom.” He articulated ...