Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food - Couverture souple

Walters, Reece

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0415521130 ISBN 13 : 9780415521130

Editeur : Routledge-Cavendish, 2012

Synopsis

The GM debate has been ongoing for over a decade, yet it has been contained in the scientific world and presented in technical terms. Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food brings the debates about GM food into the social and criminological arena.

This book highlights the criminal and harmful actions of state and corporate officials. It concludes that corporate and political corruption, uncertain science, bitter public opposition, growing farmer concern and bankruptcy, irreversible damage to biodervisty, corporate monopolies and exploitation, disregard for social and cultural practices, devastation of small scale and local agricultural economies, imminent threats to organics, weak regulation, and widespread political and biotech mistrust – do not provide the bases for advancing and progressing GM foods into the next decade. Yet, with the backing of the WTO, the US and UK Governments march on – but at what cost to future generations?

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Reece Walters is Professor in Criminology, and Head of the Social Policy and Criminology Department at The Open University. He has published widely on the politics and governance of criminological knowledge, including Deviant Knowledge - Criminology, Politics and Policy and Critical Thinking about the Uses of Research (with Tim Hope).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge-Cavendish
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415521130
• ISBN 13: 9780415521130
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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