Organising Collective Responsibility: On Precaution, Codes of Conduct and Understanding Public Debate

This paper makes a case for organizing collective responsibility through
instruments beyond the regulatory system, such as codes of conduct and various
deliberative assessment mechanisms within and outside the policy context. The
paper reviews the requirements for implementing an ethics of co-responsibility,
with a view to the challenges current and prospective developments in nanoscience
and nanotechnologies impose on the regulatory systems of modern societies.