Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology: Economics And Policy (natural Resource Management And Policy)

REGULATING AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: ECONOMICS AND POLICY NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND POLICY Editor: David Zilberman Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 EDITORIAL STATEMENT There is a growing awareness to the role that natural resources such as water, land, forests and environmental amenities play in our lives. There are many competing uses for natural resources, and society is challenged to manage them for improving social well being. Furthermore, there may be dire consequences to natural resources mismanagement. Renewable resources such as water, land and the environment are linked, and decisions made with regard to one may affect the others. Policy and management of natural resources now require interdisciplinary approach including natural and social sciences to correctly address our society preferences. This series provides a collection of works containing most recent findings on economics, management and policy of renewable biological resources such as water, land, crop protection, sustainable agriculture, technology, and environmental health. It incorporates modem thinking and techniques of economics and management, Books in this series will incorporate knowledge and models of natural phenomena with economics and managerial decision frameworks to assess alternative options for managing natural resources and environment. The Series Editor Recently Publislied Books in the Series Haddadin, Munther J. Diplomacy on the Jordan: International Conflict and Negotiated Resolution Renzetti, Steven The Economics of Water Demands Just, Richard E. and Pope, Rulon D. A Comprehensive Assessment of the Role of Risk in U.S. Agriculture Dinar, Ariel and Zilberman, David Economics of Water Resources: The Contributions of Dan Yaron Unver,.I.H. Olcay, Gupta, Rajiv K. IAS, and Kibaroglu, Ay^egiil Water Development and Poverty Reduction d'Estree, Tamra Pearson and Colby, Bonnie G. Braving the Currents: Evaluating Environmental Conflict Resolution in the River Basins of the American West Cooper, Joseph, Lipper, Leslie Marie and Zilberman, David Agricultural Biodiversity and Biotechnology in Economic Development Babu, Suresh Chandra and Djalalov, Sandjar Policy Reforms and Agriculture Development In Central Asia Goetz, Renan-Ulrich and Berga, Dolors Frontiers in Water Resource Economics REGULATING AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: ECONOMICS AND POLICY Edited by RICHARD E. JUST University of Maryland JULIAN M. ALSTON University of California, Davis DAVID ZILBERMAN University of California, Berkeley LiesI Koch, Tecfinical Editor Springer Library of Congress Control Number: 2006929864 ISBN: 10: 0-387-36952-X lSBN-13: 978-0387-36952-5 (Printed on acid-free paper) e-ISBN-10: 0-387-36953-8 e-ISBN-13: 978-0387-36953-2 © 2006 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science-l-Business Media, Inc., 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereaft