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

Author:   Michael Howlett ,  David Laycock
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415693615


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   16 April 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Michael Howlett ,  David Laycock
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9780415693615


ISBN 10:   0415693616
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   16 April 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

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'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


'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


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Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Chair in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, and specializes in public policy analysis and resource and environmental policy. He has authored or edited over 20 volumes, including most recently Canadian Public Policy (2012), the Routledge Handbook of Public Policy (2012); Designing Public Policy (2011), The Public Policy Primer (2010), Studying Public Policy (2009), and European and North American Policy Change (2009). David Laycock is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, and focuses his research on political ideologies, democratic theory, Canadian party politics, public policy, and the politics of biotechnology. His published work includes Policy Analysis in Canada (2007), Representation and Democratic Theory (2004) and monographs on The New Right and Democracy in Canada (2001) and Populism and Democratic Thought in the Canadian Prairies (1990).

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