Book Review: Legal Aspects of Implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
10:1 McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Practice 8-16, 2016
Posted: 14 Aug 2016
Date Written: August 12, 2016
Abstract
Shifting emphasis away from conventional discourse on biotechnology, the three editors of the present volume, in partnership with twenty-one other contributors, sought to use the principles of sustainable development to evaluate the Protocol and its ability to realize sustainable development. The volume is published as a pioneer title under the new Cambridge University Press series on treaty implementation for sustainable development. The volume is published as a pioneer title under the new Cambridge University Press series on treaty implementation for sustainable development. The volume’s centres on sustainable development theory and the Cartagena Protocol, and reflects a different emphasis and conceptual outlook from the general literature on regulation of biotechnology.
Keywords: CBD, Cartagena Protocol, biotechnology, sustainable development
JEL Classification: O34, Q01, K10
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