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Genetic engineering and the world trade system : world trade forum / edited by Daniel Wüger and Thomas Cottier.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: x, 356 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521883601
  • 9780521883603
Other title:
  • World trade forum
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.483 22
LOC classification:
  • K3927 .G46 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
The many faces of modern biotechnology / Daniel Wüger -- Genetic engineering, trade and human rights / Thomas Cottier -- Gender dimensions of biotechnology policy and trade / Constance Z. Wagner -- Biotechnology and patents: global standards, European approaches and national accents / Geertrui Van Overwalle -- Intellectual property rights, biotechnology and development: African perspectives / Emmanuel Opoku Awuku -- Traditional knowledge, biogenetic resources, genetic engineering and intellectual property rights / Federico Lenzerini -- Biotechnology in the energy sector: some implications for developing countries / Simonetta Zarrilli -- Coexistence and liability: implications for international trade drawn from the Swiss example / Anne Petitpierre-Sauvain -- Food security and agricultural production with genetically modified organisms: a comment / Michael Hahn -- Trade, environment and biotechnology: on coexistence and coherence / Laurence Boisson De Chazournes, Makane Moïse Mbengue -- Risk regulation, precaution and trade / Franz Xaver Perrez -- Genetic engineering, free trade and human rights: global standards and local ethics / Roger Brownsword -- The regulation of human genetics by international soft law and international trade / Souheil El-Zein.
Summary: "While the WTO agreements do not regulate the use of biotechnology per se, their rules can have a profound impact on the use of the technology for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. This book seeks to identify the challenges to international trade regulation that arise from biotechnology. The contributions examine whether existing international obligations of WTO Members are appropriate to deal with the issues arising for the use of biotechnology and whether there is a need for new international legal instruments, including a potential WTO Agreement on Biotechnology. They combine various perspectives on and topics relating to genetic engineering and trade, including human rights and gender; intellectual property rights; traditional knowledge and access and benefit sharing; food security, trade and agricultural production and food safety; and medical research, cloning and international trade."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The many faces of modern biotechnology / Daniel Wüger -- Genetic engineering, trade and human rights / Thomas Cottier -- Gender dimensions of biotechnology policy and trade / Constance Z. Wagner -- Biotechnology and patents: global standards, European approaches and national accents / Geertrui Van Overwalle -- Intellectual property rights, biotechnology and development: African perspectives / Emmanuel Opoku Awuku -- Traditional knowledge, biogenetic resources, genetic engineering and intellectual property rights / Federico Lenzerini -- Biotechnology in the energy sector: some implications for developing countries / Simonetta Zarrilli -- Coexistence and liability: implications for international trade drawn from the Swiss example / Anne Petitpierre-Sauvain -- Food security and agricultural production with genetically modified organisms: a comment / Michael Hahn -- Trade, environment and biotechnology: on coexistence and coherence / Laurence Boisson De Chazournes, Makane Moïse Mbengue -- Risk regulation, precaution and trade / Franz Xaver Perrez -- Genetic engineering, free trade and human rights: global standards and local ethics / Roger Brownsword -- The regulation of human genetics by international soft law and international trade / Souheil El-Zein.

"While the WTO agreements do not regulate the use of biotechnology per se, their rules can have a profound impact on the use of the technology for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. This book seeks to identify the challenges to international trade regulation that arise from biotechnology. The contributions examine whether existing international obligations of WTO Members are appropriate to deal with the issues arising for the use of biotechnology and whether there is a need for new international legal instruments, including a potential WTO Agreement on Biotechnology. They combine various perspectives on and topics relating to genetic engineering and trade, including human rights and gender; intellectual property rights; traditional knowledge and access and benefit sharing; food security, trade and agricultural production and food safety; and medical research, cloning and international trade."--Publisher description.

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