Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Biotechnologies: Lessons from European, North American, and Asian Experiences

ISBN-13: 9781138020092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str.

Michael Howlett; David Laycock

Opis

Agri-food bio-technology policy and regulation is transitioning from an early period focused on genetic engineering technologies to next-generation rules and regulatory processes linked to challenges originating in a wide variety of new technological processes and applications. Can lessons learned from past and current regulatory oversights of agricultural biotechnology and other high-technology sectors help us address new and emerging regulatory challenges in the agri-food genetics sector? The expert contributors in this volume discuss the experiences of a wide range of North American, European and Asian countries with high technology regulation to address four key questions related to the past and future development of agri-food genomics regulation across the globe.

• how unique is agri-food biotechology regulation, and how can it be evaluated using the existing tools of regulatory analysis developed in examinations of other sectors?
• is a government to governance model of regulatory regime development found in many other sectors relevant in this rapidly evolving sphere of activity?
• is a stages model of regulatory regime development accurate? And, if so, at which stage are we currently positioned in the regulation of agri-food genomics products and technologies?
• what drives movement between stages in different countries and sectors? In assessing such drivers, what are the key links between sectoral (meso) developments and more general macro and micro developments such as international relations and administrative behaviour?

By updating, extending and challenging earlier empirical and theoretical social science perspectives on agricultural bio-technological regulation, this volume helps to inform future policy formulation. It will be of interest to practitioners and students of biotechnology, agriculture, and science and technology policy, and regulatory processes more generally."

Recenzje

'Each chapter is written by an authority in the subject area and includes ample up-to-date references. The coverage is unbiased and argues from contemporary public policy perspectives. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals in law/public policy or agricultural biotechnology.'
-B. R. Shmaefsky, Lone Star College, Kingwood in CHOICE Nov 2012

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Regulating Next Generation Biotechnologies: Tentative Regulation for Emerging Technologies  Part 1: First and Second Generation Agri-Food Genetic Technologies and Regulatory Regimes: Issues and Overviews  2. Generating Regulatory Futures: From Agbiotech Blockages to a Bioeconomy?   3. Learning From Experience: How Do We Use What We’ve Learned to Reform Regulatory Oversight of New Agricultural Biotechnologies?  Part 2: Regulatory Regime Development Theory and Practice  4. Regulatory Life Cycles and Comparative Biotechnology Regulation: Analyzing Regulatory Regimes in Space and Time  5. Pragmatism Revisited: An Overview of the Development of Regulatory Regimes of GMOs in EU