Genetically Engineered Crops

Interim Policies, Uncertain Legislation
Herausgeber: Taylor, Iain

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Produktbeschreibung

Genetically Engineered Crops examines current controversies surrounding the potential health, environmental, and social impacts of plants produced using molecular biology techniques. Educators, professionals, and practitioners representing a wide range of disciplines, including plant biotechnology, environmental health risk assessment, law, food safety assessment, and bio safety, address the uncertainties of the science, biological risks, national and international governance issues in North and South America, Europe, and Africa, and the need for full public understanding of genetically engineered crops.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9781560229889
• ISBN-10: 1560229888
• Artikelnr.: 22579383

Autorenporträt

Iain E. P. Taylor, PhD, holds BSc and doctorate degrees from the University of Liverpool. He joined the faculty of the University of British Columbia Botany Department in 1968. His research interests in plant cell walls have recently been paralleled by research on ethics in science, scholarly publishing, and professionalism. He retired and was appointed Professor Emeritus in December 2003. He was editor¿in-chief of the Canadian Journal o f Botany from 1989 to 1999, and has served as assistant editor in chief of the NRC of Canada Research Journals since 1991. He is associated with the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at UBC and is the research director at the university's Botanical Garden.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Genetic Engineering of Crops: Science Meets Civil Society's
Response Abbreviations PART I. SCIENCE AND THE FUTURE Chapter 1. The Birth
of Synthetic Biology and the Genetic Mode of Production Chapter 2.
Controversy Around Terminology and Novelty: Engineered, Modified
Biotechnology and Transgenics Chapter 3. Transgenic Crops,
Agrobiodiversity, and Agroecosystem Function Chapter 4. Ecological Risk
Assessment of GE Crops: Getting the Science Fundamentals Right Chapter 5.
Coping with Uncertainty: The Human Health Implications of GE Foods Chapter
6. Future Research Tackling the Technology Divide: A Research Agenda for
Crop Biotechnology Chapter 7. Next Challenges for Crop GE: Maturing of
Governance and Moves Beyond Food Issues PART II: ISSUES IN CURRENT
GOVERNANCE Chapter 8. A Precautionary Framework for Biotechnology Chapter
9. The Precautionary Principle and Biotechnology: Guiding a Public Interest
Research Agenda Chapter 10. Trade, Science, and Canada's Regulatory
Framework for Determining the Environmental Safety of GE Crops Chapter 11.
Principles Driving U.S. Governance of Agbiotech Chapter 12. Biotechnology
Policy in the European Union Chapter 13. Regulatory Regimes for GE Crops in
Africa Chapter 14. GEO Research and Agribusiness in Brazil: Impact of the
Regulatory Framework Chapter 15. Toward a Liability and Compensation Regime
under the Biosafety Protocol PART III: CHALLENGES TO CIVIL SOCIETY Chapter
16. Public Spheres Pushing for Change: Public Participation in the
Governance of GE Crops Chapter 17. Risky Delusions: Misunderstanding
Science and Misperforming Publics in the GE Crops Issue