Genetically modified diplomacy : the global politics of agricultural biotechnology and the environment / Peter Andrée.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrée, Peter, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Convention on Biological Diversity (1992 June 5)--Protocols, etc. (2000 January 29).

Convention on Biological Diversity.

Agricultural biotechnology--Law and legislation.

Agricultural biotechnology.

Transgenic organisms.

Environmental law, International.

Precautionary principle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Andr�e explains this reversal in the "common-sense" understanding of genetic engineering, and discusses the new debates it has engendered.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Frequently Used Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Theorizing International Environmental Diplomacy; 2 The Biotech Bloc; 3 The Ideational Politics of Genetic Engineering; 4 Biosafety as a Field of International Politics; 5 Staking Out Positions; 6 A Precautionary Protocol; 7 The Politics of Precaution in the Wake of the Cartagena Protocol; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Limited edition of 500 copies.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-313) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-59335-8

9786612593352

0-7748-5558-4

OCLC:

236350377