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1 online resource |
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Haworth Food & Agricultural Products Press Crop Science |
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Haworth Food & Agricultural Products Press Crop Science
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About the editor -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Genetic engineering of crops: science meets civil society's response -- Abbreviations -- Part 1: Science And The Future -- 1: Birth of synthetic biology and the genetic mode of production / Sheldon Krimsky -- Biotechnology: evolution or revolution? -- First-generation fears about gene splicing: laboratory hazards -- Emerging industrial sectors -- Second-generation controversies: environmental releases of GEOs -- Third-generation biotech controversies: globalization -- Conclusion -- 2: Controversy around terminology and novelty: engineered, modified biotechnology, and transgenics / Brian Ellis -- Classic period -- Mother Nature's genetic engineer -- When in doubt, reach for your gun -- Basic toolkit -- Choosing targets -- Round two -- So many genes, so much time -- Conclusions -- 3: Transgenic crops, agrobiodiversity, and agroecosystem function / Miguel A Altieri -- Biotechnology and the loss of agrobiodiversity -- Ecological effects of Hrcs -- Ecological risks of Bt crops -- General conclusions and recommendations -- 4: Ecological risk assessment of GE crops: getting the science fundamentals right / Michelle Marvier and Sabrina West -- Environmental risk assessment for Ge crops -- What can we learn from the longer history of classical biological control? -- Conclusion -- 5: Coping with uncertainty: the human health implications of GE foods / Paul R Billings and Peter Shorett -- Introduction -- Food is a drug -- Using toxicology and epidemiology to evaluate food safety -- Substantial equivalence and its consequences -- Nutrition -- Allergenicity -- Toxicity -- Conclusion -- 6: Future research tackling the technology divide: a research agenda for crop biotechnology / Michiel Korthals -- Introduction -- Current state of affairs: crisis in governments, markets, civil societies, and science and agriculture -- Plant biotechnology and agriculture -- Seven persistent ethical problems of biotechnology -- Research agendas of natural and social sciences (beta-gamma interaction): tackling the problems -- Conclusion |
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7: Next challenges for crop GE: maturing of governance and moves beyond food issues / Iain E P Taylor -- Introduction -- What can plants do for us? -- Environmental future -- Industrial incentive -- Regulatory future -- Aquaculture -- Forestry -- Environmental remediation -- Part 2: Issues In Current Governance -- 8: Precautionary framework for biotechnology / Katherine Barrett and Conrad G Brunk -- Introduction -- Debate about the precautionary principle -- Burden of proof -- Standards of safety -- Conclusion -- 9: Precautionary principle and biotechnology: guiding a public interest research agenda / Carolyn Raffensperger -- Introduction -- Precautionary principle -- Ethics -- Precautionary research: a new social contract -- Public money for private interest -- Public interest research -- Local to global -- Legal challenges -- 10: Trade, science, and Canada's regulatory framework for determining the environmental safety of GE crops / Elisabeth A Abergel -- Regulatory and economic uncertainty -- Market disputes -- Canada's risk-based approach -- Herbicide-tolerant canola -- Scientific uncertainty and the Canadian regulatory framework -- International trade and regulatory harmonization -- Smart regulations -- Precaution and science-based regulations -- Conclusion -- 11: Principles driving U S governance of agbiotech / Kathleen A Merrigan -- Principle 1: No "special treatment" -- Principle 2: Invest in research and education -- Principle 3: Strong property rights -- Future governance -- Conclusion -- Biotechnology policy in the European union / Armin Spok -- Introduction -- Europe versus the European union -- Limited importance of EE R & D policy -- Overall regulatory approach -- Risk assessment and decision making -- Directive 90/220/EEC-the shortcomings of a harmonization tool -- Diverging framings in GEO risk assessments -- European publics: reluctance and diverging attitudes toward biotechnology -- New regulatory regime -- Conclusions -- 13: Regulatory regimes for GE crops in Africa / Jennifer A Thomson -- South Africa -- Kenya -- Egypt -- Other countries -- 14: GEO research and agribusiness in Brazil: impact of the regulatory framework / Marilia Regini Nutti, Maria Jose Amstalden Sampaio and Edson Watanabe -- Introduction -- Brazilian legal framework for GM crops -- Embrapa's biosafety network -- Soybean saga -- Labeling decree no 4680 -- Cartagena protocol -- Current GEO labeling legislation in Brazil -- Food safety assessment of genetically modified foods -- Environmental impacts -- Final considerations -- 15: Toward a liability and compensation regime under the biosafety protocol / Kristin Dawkins and Josh DuBois -- Introduction -- Suggestions for the development of biosafety liability rules -- Damage that should be recoverable -- Remedies -- Conclusion -- Part 3: Challenges To Civil Society -- 16: Public spheres pushing for change: public participation in the governance of GE crops / Simon Joss -- Introduction -- Genealogy of public debate -- Participation as governance -- Institutional arenas of participatory governance -- Extrainstitutional arenas of participatory governance -- Conclusions -- 17: Risky delusions: misunderstanding science and misperforming publics in the GE crops issue / Brian Wynne -- Introduction -- Objects of confusion-and provocation -- Risk assessment and excluded dimensions of "uncertainty" -- From "unknown unknowns" to known uncertainties: a tacit culture of control -- Confusions of meaning: constructing the public by "listening" to it -- Constructed risk: performing "publics" and externalizing responsibility -- Conclusions: Learning science? -- Index |
| Summary |
From the Publisher: Take a closer look at the questions surrounding the long-term impact of GE crops. 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. Proper regulation of food requires a broad understanding of the science and of varying public perceptions of the technology that will lead to effective governance. Genetically Engineered Crops examines ecological, health, and environmental concerns about crop genetic engineering, the need for precaution, biosafety, and liability, and the challenges faced in meeting the public's demands for proper understanding of the risks involved. With no worldwide framework for regulation in place and public concern about food safety growing, this vital book takes a closer look at the long-term impact of GE crops and their place in the future of agriculture. Genetically Engineered Crops examines: the laboratory hazards of gene splicing; environmental releases of GEOs; the loss of agrobiodiversity; the ecological effects of HRCs; ecological and environmental risk assessment of GE crops; human health implications of GE foods; allergenicity and toxicity; the precautionary principle; international trade and regulatory harm; smart regulations in Canada; shortcomings in risk assessment; liability and compensation and much more. Genetically Engineered Crops is a vital reference resource for anyone working in the plant and crop sciences, the social sciences, national and international bioregulation, environmental law, and agribusiness |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 23, 2018) |
| Subject |
Plant biotechnology -- Risk assessment
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Transgenic plants -- Risk assessment.
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Plant genetic engineering.
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Agricultural biotechnology -- Law and legislation.
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Plant biotechnology -- Research -- Law and legislation.
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Genetically modified foods.
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Food, Genetically Modified
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
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Agricultural biotechnology -- Law and legislation
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Genetically modified foods
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Plant biotechnology -- Research -- Law and legislation
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Plant genetic engineering
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Transgenic plants -- Risk assessment
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Taylor, Iain, editor
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| ISBN |
9781482278019 |
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1482278014 |
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