Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology Economics and Policy - Just, Richard E.; Alston, Julian M.; Zilberman, David; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2006)
Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology: Introduction and Overview -- Agricultural Biotechnology in the Context of a Regulated Agricultural Sector -- Economic Analysis and Regulating Pesticide Biotechnology at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- Compliance Costs for Regulatory Approval of New Biotech Crops -- Regulation of Technology in the Context of U.S. Agricultural Policy -- Managing Liabilities Arising from Agricultural Biotechnology -- Status of Agricultural Biotechnology: An International Perspective -- Interactions Between Trade Policies and GM Food Regulations -- The Value of Non-Pecuniary Characteristics of Crop Biotechnologies: A New Look at the Evidence -- Bt Corn's Reduction of Mycotoxins: Regulatory Decisions and Public Opinion -- Consumer Attitudes and Market Resistance to Biotech Products -- Comparison of Consumer Responses to Genetically Modified Foods in Asia, North America, and Europe -- Conceptual Issues in Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology -- The Economics of Biotechnology Regulation -- Labeling Regulations and Segregation of First- and Second-Generation GM Products: Innovation Incentives and Welfare Effects -- Regulation of Technology in the Context of Risk Generation -- Environmental Effects of Genetically Modified Crops: Differentiated Risk Assessment and Management -- Irreversibility, Uncertainty, and the Adoption of Transgenic Crops: Experiences from Applications to HT Sugar Beets, HT Corn, and Bt Corn -- Anticompetitive Impacts of Laws that Regulate Commercial Use of Agricultural Biotechnologies in the United States -- Regulation, Trade, and Market Power: Agricultural Chemical Markets and Incentives for Biotechnology -- Regulation and the Structure of Biotechnology Industries -- The Social Welfare Implications of Intellectual Property Protection: Imitation and Going Off Patent -- Case Studies on the Economics of Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology -- International Approval and Labeling Regulations of Genetically Modified Food in Major Trading Countries -- Benefits and Costs of Biosafety Regulation in India and China -- Biosafety Regulation of Genetically Modified Orphan Crops in Developing Countries: A Way Forward -- Bt Resistance Management: The Economics of Refuges -- Managing European Corn Borer Resistance to Bt Corn with Dynamic Refuges -- Farmer Demand for Corn Rootworm Bt Corn: Do Insect Resistance Management Guidelines Really Matter? -- Adverse Selection, Moral Hazard, and Grower Compliance with Bt Corn Refuge -- Damage from Secondary Pests and the Need for Refuge in China -- Regulation of Biotechnology for Field Crops -- Regulation of Transgenic Crops Intended for Pharmaceutical and Industrial Uses -- Regulation of Biotechnology for Forestry Products -- Regulation of Biotechnology for Specialty Crops -- Conclusions -- What Have We Learned, and Where Do We Go from Here?.
Keywords: Agriculture; Food-Biotechnology.; Agricultural economics; Economic policy; Environmental engineering; Biotechnology; Agriculture; Food Science; Agricultural Economics; R & D/Technology Policy; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology.