Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Biotechnologies Lessons from European, North American and Asian Experiences

Acknowledgment  Introduction  Chapter 1: Regulating Next Generation Biotechnologies: Tentative Regulation for Emerging Technologies by David Laycock and Michael Howlett  Part 1: First and Second Generation Agri-Food Genetic Technologies and Regulatory Regimes: Issues and Overviews  Chapter 2: Generating Regulatory Futures: From Agbiotech Blockages to a Bioeconomy? by Les Levidow  Chapter 3: Learning From Experience: How Do We Use What We’ve Learned to Reform Regulatory Oversight of New Agricultural Biotechnologies? by Alan McHughen  Part 2: Regulatory Regime Development Theory & Practice  Chapter 4: Regulatory Life Cycles and Comparative Biotechnology Regulation: Analyzing Regulatory Regimes in Space and Time by Michael Howlett and Andrea Migone  Chapter 5: Pragmatism Revisited: An overview of the development of regulatory regimes of GMOs in EU by Anders Johansson  Part 3: GMO Regulatory Regimes in Practice: Europe, Asia, and North America  Chapter 6: Contested Frames: Comparing EU versus US GMO Policy by Sarah Lieberman and Anthony R. Zito  Chapter 7: The Global battle over the Governance of Agricultural Biotechnology: the roles of Japan, Korea, and China by Yves Tiberghien  Chapter 8: The EU's Governance of Plant Biotechnology Risk Regulation: Still Contested, Still Distinct by Paulette Kurzer and Grace Skogstad  Part 4: Lessons from Other High Technology Sectors  Chapter 9: Regulating Nanotechnology in China: Governance, Risk Management, and Regulatory Effectiveness by Darryl S.L. Jarvis and Noah Richmond  Chapter 10: Lessons from Bio-Medical Technology Regulation: North American and European Comparisons by Isabelle Engeli, Christine Rothmayr Allison, and Frederic Varone  Part 5: Agricultural Biotechnologies and the Public: Deliberation, Opinion, Ethics and Participation  Chapter 11: Network Deliberations, Advocacy Groups and the Legitimacy of the EU by Éric Montpetit  Chapter 12: Getting to Maybe: Assessments of Benefits and Risks in Canadian Public Opinion On Biotechnological Innovation by Steven Weldon, David Laycock, Andrea Nüsser, and Colin Whelan  Chapter 13: Deriving Policy and Governance from Deliberative Events and Mini-Publics by Michael M. Burgess  Chapter 14: Second Generation Governance for Second Generation GM by Christoph Rehmann-Sutter

Biography

Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Chair in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, and specializes in public policy analysis and resource and environmental policy. He has authored or edited over 20 volumes, including most recently Canadian Public Policy (2012) and the Routledge Handbook of Public Policy (2012).

David Laycock is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, and focuses his research on political ideologies, democratic theory, Canadian party politics, public policy, and the politics of biotechnology. His published work includes Policy Analysis in Canada (2007), Representation and Democratic Theory (2004).

'Each chapter is written by an authority in the subject area and includes ample up-to-date references. The coverage is unbiased and argues from contemporary public policy perspectives. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals in law/public policy or agricultural biotechnology.'
-B. R. Shmaefsky, Lone Star College, Kingwood in CHOICE Nov 2012