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Genes, Trade, and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology
Thomas Bernauer
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Description for Genes, Trade, and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology
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Agricultural (or "green") biotechnology is a source of growing tensions in the global trading system, particularly between the United States and the European Union. Genetically modified food faces an uncertain future. The technology behind it might revolutionize food production around the world. Or it might follow the example of nuclear energy, which declined from a symbol of socioeconomic progress to become one of the most unpopular and uneconomical innovations in history. This book provides novel and thought-provoking insights into the fundamental policy issues involved in agricultural biotechnology. Thomas Bernauer explains global regulatory polarization and trade conflict in this area. He ... Read more
Agricultural (or "green") biotechnology is a source of growing tensions in the global trading system, particularly between the United States and the European Union. Genetically modified food faces an uncertain future. The technology behind it might revolutionize food production around the world. Or it might follow the example of nuclear energy, which declined from a symbol of socioeconomic progress to become one of the most unpopular and uneconomical innovations in history. This book provides novel and thought-provoking insights into the fundamental policy issues involved in agricultural biotechnology. Thomas Bernauer explains global regulatory polarization and trade conflict in this area. He ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691113487
SKU
V9780691113487
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Ref
99-1
About Thomas Bernauer
Thomas Bernauer is Professor of Political Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and a widely published author on international economic and environmental issues.
Reviews for Genes, Trade, and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology
Winner of the 2005 Don K. Price Award, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association "[An] important and definitive book on agricultural biotechnology and the deepening trade dispute between the United States and the European Union... Bernauer has done a first-rate job of exploring this contentious trade issue in an understandable way."
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