| Socio-Economic Considerations in Biotechnology Regulation Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Ludlow, Karinne (Editor), Smyth, Stuart J. (Editor), Falck-Zepeda, José (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1493943855 ISBN-13: 9781493943852 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - Agribusiness - Technology & Engineering | Food Science - General - Science |
| Dewey: 338.1 |
| Series: Natural Resource Management and Policy |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.01 lbs) 313 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |