Risk Perception and Public Acceptance of New Breeding Techniques Crops

ISBN-13: 9786202028424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 68 str.

Yutaka Tanaka

Opis

New plant breeding technologies (NPBT), also as called New Breeding Techniques (NBT), have recently received attention worldwide, as a next-generation gene technology. The present study aimed to analyze the general public's attitudes toward NBT crops in detail, to examine the validity of the psychological models to predict the acceptance of NBT crops, and to investigate the acceptance level of various kinds of NBT crops and to group these NBT crops.

O autorze

Yutaka TanakaPh. D. Pfofessor of Faculty of Informatics at Osaka Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan. The author majors in social psychology and his special field of study is people's risk perception and acceptance of technology.