Political Science Trade & Tariffs
Genetically Modified Diplomacy
The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2008
- Category
- Trade & Tariffs, Diplomacy, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Biotechnology, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774812696
- Publish Date
- Jan 2008
- List Price
- $32.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774812689
- Publish Date
- May 2007
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774840965
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $30.95
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Description
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.
About the author
Peter Andrée is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University.
