Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Biotechnologies

Lessons from European, North American, and Asian Experiences
Herausgeber: Howlett, Michael; Laycock, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How do lessons learned from past and current regulatory oversights of agricultural biotechnology - and other high-technology sectors - help us address new regulatory challenges in the agri-food genetics sector? The expert contributors in this volume discuss a wide range of North American, European and Asian countries to address, in a multi-disciplinary fashion, key questions related to the past and future development of agri-food genomics regulation across the globe.

Produktdetails

• Genetics and Society
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781138020092
• ISBN-10: 1138020095
• Artikelnr.: 40045644

Autorenporträt

Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Chair in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, and specializes in public policy analysis and resource and environmental policy. He has authored or edited over 20 volumes, including most recently Canadian Public Policy (2012) and the Routledge Handbook of Public Policy (2012). David Laycock is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, and focuses his research on political ideologies, democratic theory, Canadian party politics, public policy, and the politics of biotechnology. His published work includes Policy Analysis in Canada (2007), Representation and Democratic Theory (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Regulating Next Generation Biotechnologies: Tentative
Regulation for Emerging Technologies Part 1: First and Second Generation
Agri-Food Genetic Technologies and Regulatory Regimes: Issues and Overviews
2. Generating Regulatory Futures: From Agbiotech Blockages to a Bioeconomy?
3. Learning From Experience: How Do We Use What We've Learned to Reform
Regulatory Oversight of New Agricultural Biotechnologies? Part 2:
Regulatory Regime Development Theory and Practice 4. Regulatory Life Cycles
and Comparative Biotechnology Regulation: Analyzing Regulatory Regimes in
Space and Time 5. Pragmatism Revisited: An Overview of the Development of
Regulatory Regimes of GMOs in EU