Overview
- Highlights the regulatory and trade challenges to improving food security and offers strategic responses to these challenges
- Discusses the current state of international GM crop adoption, using Canada as a case study of efficient, science-based regulation
- Summarizes the global economic, environmental, and human health benefits from the adoption, production and consumption of genetically modified crops
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Natural Resource Management and Policy (NRMP, volume 51)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Dynamics of Transformative Innovation
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The Dynamics of the Institutional Regulatory Architecture
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About this book
This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security. The first section of the book establishes the context of the conflict, discussing the challenges of global governance, international trade, and the history of regulation of genetically modified (GM) crops. In this section, the authors emphasize the shift from exclusively science-based regulation to the more socio-economically focused framework established by the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which was adopted in 2000. The second section of the book provides a snapshot of the current state of international GM crop adoption and regulation, highlighting the US, Canada, and the EU. The final section of the book identifies options for breaking the gridlock of regulation and trade that presently exist. This book adds to the current literature by providing new information about innovative agricultural technologies and encouraging debate by providing an alternative to the narratives espoused by environmental non-governmental organizations. This book will appeal to students of economics, political science, and policy analysis, as well as members of regulatory agencies and agricultural industry firms.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biotechnology Regulation and Trade
Authors: Stuart J. Smyth, William A. Kerr, Peter W. B Phillips
Series Title: Natural Resource Management and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53295-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53293-6Published: 10 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85118-1Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53295-0Published: 02 March 2017
Series ISSN: 0929-127X
Series E-ISSN: 2511-8560
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 275
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Economic Policy, Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics