Legal aspects of implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety / [edited by] Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Frederic Perron-Welch, Christine Frison.

"This book, the first in a new series that focuses on treaty implementation for sustainable development, examines key legal aspects of implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at national and international levels. The volume provides a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Cordonier Segger, Marie-Claire, 1973-, Perron-Welch, Frederic, 1983-, Frison, Christine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Treaty implementation for sustainable development.
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Summary:"This book, the first in a new series that focuses on treaty implementation for sustainable development, examines key legal aspects of implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at national and international levels. The volume provides a serious contribution to the current legal and political academic debates on biosafety by discussing key issues under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety that affect the further design of national and international law on biosafety, and analyzing recent progress in the development of domestic regulatory regimes for biosafety. It also examines the legal, political, economic, and practical challenges and solutions encountered in recent efforts to develop and implement domestic biosafety regulations, with a focus on developing countries. In the year of the fifth UN Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, at the signature of a new Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Protocol on Liability and Redress, this timely book examines recent developments in biosafety law and policy"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781139624909
1139624903
9781139047494
1139047493
1283986620
9781283986625
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139047494