Genetically Modified Diplomacy: The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment - Couverture souple

Andrée, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0774812699 ISBN 13 : 9780774812696

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2008

Synopsis

When genetically engineered seeds were first deployed in the Americas in the mid-1990s, the biotechnology industry and its partners envisaged a world in which their crops would be widely accepted as the food of the future. Critics, however, raised a variety of social, environmental, economic, and health concerns. This book traces the emergence of the 2000 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety - and the discourse of precaution toward GEOs that the protocol institutionalized internationally. Peter Andrée explains this reversal in the "common-sense" understanding of genetic engineering, and discusses the new debates it has engendered.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Peter Andrée is an assistant professor of political science at Carleton University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774812699
• ISBN 13: 9780774812696
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible