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Genetically Modified Diplomacy: The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment
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Product 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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #668748 in Books
- Published on: 2008-01-01
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 1.10 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
An exceptionally well written, theoretically sophisticated, and timely book. Andrée has provided an important service to readers who have an interest in understanding in fine detail the complex nature of environmental politics in a globalizing world.
– Michael D. Mehta, Director of the Sociology of Biotechnology Program, University of Saskatchewan, and editor of Biotechnology Unglued: Science, Society, and Social Cohesion
About the Author
Peter Andrée is an assistant professor of political science at Carleton University.
