Socio-Economic Considerations in Biotechnology Regulation (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)

Within the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) was established as an implementing agreement. The CPB is an international agreement establishing the rights of recipient countries to be notified of and to approve or reject the domestic import and/or production of living modified organisms (LMOs). Decisions regarding import/production are to be on the basis of a biosafety assessment. Article 26.1 of the CPB allows for the (optional) inclusion of socio-economic considerations (SECs) into that biosafety assessment process. This book compiles expert assessments of the issues relevant to SEC assessment of LMOs and fundamental for decisions regarding whether to undertake such assessments at all. It includes an overview of the inclusion of SEC assessment in the regulation of LMOs that looks at the rationale for the inclusion of SECs, in the context of the existing science-based risk assessment systems. This book reviews the various factors that can and have been suggested for inclusion in SEC assessment, and provides a meaningful dialogue about the contrasts, benefits and tradeoffs that are, and will, be created by the potential move to the inclusion of SECs in the regulation of LMOs, making it of interest to bothacademics and policy-makers."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Natural Resource Management and Policy, 37
Release date:	December 2013
First published:	2014
Editors:	Karinne Ludlow • Stuart J. Smyth • Jose Falck-Zepeda
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	313
Edition:	2014 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4614-9439-3
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural science Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > Research & development management Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Agriculture & related industries Books > Professional & Technical > Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies > Industrial chemistry > Food & beverage technology > General
LSN:	1-4614-9439-7
Barcode:	9781461494393

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