Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Macnaghten, Phil

Title Governing Agricultural Sustainability : Global lessons from GM crops
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2015

Copies

Description 1 online resource (263 pages)
Series Pathways to Sustainability
Pathways to sustainability series.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and acronyms; Contributors; PART I The GMFuturos research; 1 Researching GM crops in a global context; 2 An analysis of the GM crop debate in Mexico; 3 An analysis of the GM crop debate in Brazil; 4 An analysis of the GM crop debate in India; 5 Comparing GM crops in Mexico, Brazil and India; PART II Commentaries on governing GM crops; 6 The route to food security is not through glorification of the rural idyl and demonisation of global trade (or vice versa)
7 Lessons from China's GM controversy8 Public participation, accountability and the stewardship of transgenic crops; 9 An anthropological perspective on the promise and the threat of GM crops; 10 Neoliberal origins of anti-GM protest in Europe; 11 GM futures: perspectives from a plant molecular biologist; 12 The search for affirming narratives for the future governance of technology: reflections from a science-theology perspective on GMFuturos; 13 Crop science, the Heisenberg principle and resistance to genetically modified organisms; 14 Innovating governance?
15 Institutional rigidities and impediments: agricultural research and GM crops in India16 Focusing on GM crops; 17 A responsible innovation governance framework for GM crops: global lessons for agricultural sustainability; Index
Notes Print version record
Subject Transgenic plants -- Public opinion
Transgenic plants -- Government policy
Transgenic plants -- Risk assessment.
Sustainable agriculture.
sustainable agriculture (discipline)
Sustainable agriculture
Transgenic plants -- Risk assessment
Form Electronic book
Author Carro-Ripalda, Susana
ISBN 9781315709468
1315709465