COPING WITH DELIBERATE RELEASE: THE LIMITS OF RISK ASSESSMENT (SERIES B: SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, VOLUME 2) - Couverture souple

Ad Van Dommelen (ed.)

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9080213942 ISBN 13 : 9789080213944

Editeur : Centre for Human and Public Affairs, Tilburg (NL), 1996

Synopsis

Coping With Deliberate Release: The Limits of Risk Assessment, edited by Ad van Dommelen, Tilburg: International Centre for Human and Public Affairs (NL) , 1996. The option for a biotechnology-based agriculture faces the challenge of complying with sustainable development and implies a precautionary approach to all the possible risks involved. These risks cannot be managed without taking into account the environmental and social impacts of scientific ideas, regulatory practices and political cultures. The focus of this book is on our capacity to assess and foresee the possible risks that are involved with deliberate environmental releases of genetically modified organisms. The aim of this volume is to contribute recent analyses and views from a range of disciplines to the ongoing debates on public participation, biosafety and regulation. To cope with the challenges of modern biotechnology and genetic engineering we must explore the limits of our risk assessments. The fifteen chapters of this volume are the concerted attempt of internationally distinguished authors from Europe, the United States and Japan to map promises and perils in the emerging social and political landscape of modern biotechnology. The limits of risk assessment in relation- to the deliberate release of genetically modified organisms are addressed with regard to the 'Scientific Backgrounds (Part 1), the 'Regulatory Practice' (Part W. and the 'Political Conditions' (Part Ill).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Centre for Human and Public Affairs, Tilburg (NL)
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9080213942
• ISBN 13: 9789080213944
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Ad Van Dommelen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible