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Synthetic Biology 2020: Frontiers in Risk Analysis and Governance (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Synthetic Biology 2020: Frontiers in Risk Analysis and Governance (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Risk, Systems and Decisions
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Synthetic biology offers powerful remedies for some of the world's
most intractable problems, but these solutions are clouded by
uncertainty and risk that few strategies are available to address.
The incentives for continued development of this emerging
technology are prodigious and obvious, and the public deserves
assurances that all potential downsides are duly considered and
minimized accordingly. Incorporating social science analysis within
the innovation process may impose constraints, but its simultaneous
support in making the end products more acceptable to society at
large should be considered a worthy trade-off. Contributing authors
in this volume represent diverse perspectives related to synthetic
biology's social sciences, and reflect on different areas of risk
analysis and governance that have developed for the field. Such
perspectives include leading scholarly discussion pertaining to
risk assessment, governance, ethics, and communication. The
chapters of this volume note that while the first twenty years of
synthetic biology development have focused strongly on
technological innovation and product development, the next twenty
should emphasize the synergy between developers, policymakers, and
publics to generate the most beneficial, well governed, and
transparent technologies and products possible. Many chapters in
this volume provide new data and approaches that demonstrate the
feasibility for multi-stakeholder efforts involving policymakers,
regulators, industrial developers, workers, experts, and societal
representatives to share responsibilities in the production of
effective and acceptable governance in the face of uncertain risk
probabilities. A full consideration of such perspectives may
prevent a world of draconian regulations based on an insufficient
or incomplete understanding of the science that underpins synthetic
biology, as well as any hesitancy or fear by the public to adopt
its eventual products.
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