International Governance of Biotechnology - Science, Ethics & Society
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The significant media coverage recently given to issues such as the international impacts of biofuel production policies, advances in synthetic biology, and the ethical implications of research involving embryonic stem cells, is indicative of the high-level of interest - among policy-makers, academics and the public - in the biotechnology revolution, its applications, impacts and control. There is also significant interest in international regulatory processes as a form of governance, and international regulation is a vital part of efforts to manage the impacts of the biotechnology revolution, since many of these are global in their nature.
The book establishes the need for international regulation of biotechnology, identifying the roles it needs to play, and the issues it needs to cover. Having outlined the importance of coherence to the effective functioning of international regulatory sets, a model of coherent international regulation is established, against which the biotechnology regulations can be assessed. This book approaches the subject from an international relations perspective but also draws from, and will contribute to, literature in the fields of international law, global governance, technological governance, and science-society relations.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781849660655 |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Pub date: | 02 Dec 2010 |
DEWEY: | 343.0786606 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Number of pages: | 210 |
Weight: | 508g |
Height: | 243mm |
Width: | 163mm |
Spine width: | 22mm |