Incorporating science, economics, and sociology in developing sanitary and phytosanitary standards in international trade :  proceedings of a conference / 
Board on Agricultural and Natural Resources, National Research Council. 
 - Washington, D.C. :  National Academy Press,  �2000. 
 - 1 online resource (xiv, 275 pages) :  illustrations, map. 
 - The compass series .
 - Compass series (Washington, D.C.) .
<br/><br/> Current institutions for managing SPS issues in international trade --  Discussion of issues related to SPS management in international trade --  Historical and social science perspectives on the role of risk assessment and science in protecting the domestic economy: some background /  Historical perspective on protectionism --  A perspective on risk assessment --  The importance of adjustment policies --  Agricultural trade, risk assessment, and the role of culture in risk management --  Sanitary and phytosanitary risk management in the post-Uruguay round era: an economic perspective /  The SPS agreement: origin and principal provisions --  Cost-benefit analysis of SPS regulations --  Is the SPS agreement congruent with executive branch guidelines? --  An overview of risk assessment /  Risk and trade barriers --  What is risk assessment? --  Selecting toxicological endpoints: what do we evaluate? --  Deterministic risk assessment --  Probabilistic risk assessment --  Protecting humans, plants, and wildlife --  Risk assessment of genetically engineered organisms --  How can we be fooled? unprovable risks --  Future problems --  Scientific arguments about risk assessment --  Technological risk and cultures of rationality /  Dimensions of cross-national variance --  Varieties of cultural explanation --  Political and ecological economy --  Biological impacts of species invasions: implications for policy makers /  Impact from an anthropocentric perspective--  The grape root louse phylloxera --  The importance of recognizing and regulating vectors --  Vectors --  Impact from an ecological perspective --  The mosquito fish --  When anthropocentric and ecological perspectives clash --  Predicting outcomes of species introductions --  The crayfish plague and the signal crayfish --  Limits to prediction when species interact synergistically --  Setting priorities for management of invasive species --  Risk management and the world trading system: regulating international trade distortions caused by national sanitary and phytosanitary policies /  The SPS agreement: major elements --  International standards --  Other WTO agreements: GATT 1994 and the TBT agreement --  The system at work: three cases --  Analysis of the system at work --  Accounting for consumers' preferences in international trade rules /  Sanitary and technical barriers --  Technical and cultural differences and domestic regulations --  Accounting for consumer concerns --  What are the solutions for reconciling consumer concerns and international trade rules? --  Economic analysis and the settlement of disputes --  Case study 1: meat slaughtering and processing practices --  The Danish approach to food safety issues related to pork products /  Danish consumers' perspectives on food safety --  Consumer requirements of Danish meat --  Welfare --  An update on the Danish salmonella reduction program --  International harmonization under the SPS agreement /  Case study 2: plant quarantines and Hass avocados --  Role of science in solving pest quarantine problems: Hass avocado case study /  General considerations --  The Hass avocado case: a political science perspective /  Case study 3: genetically modified organisms --  An overview of risk assessment procedures applied to genetically engineered crops /  Containment --  The principle of familiarity --  Small-scale risk assessment experiments --  Monitoring and a precautionary approach --  Approaches to risk and risk assessment /  A SPS agreement.  G. Edward Schuh --  Donna Roberts --  John D. Stark --  Sheila Jasanoff --  Karen Goodell, Ingrid M. Parker, Gregory S. Gilbert --  David G. Victor --  Jean-Christophe Bureau, Stephan Marette --  Bent Nielsen --  Bruce A. Silverglade --  Walther Enkerlin Hoeflich --  David Vogel --  Peter Kareiva, Michelle Marvier --  Paul Thompson --  1.  Part I  2.  3.  4.  Part II.  5.  Case Study 1.  Case Study 2.  Case Study 3.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  Appendix. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0585285977 9780585285979 9786610246670 661024667X 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00702443  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (1995 January 1) <br/>Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (1995) <br/>Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (1995 January 1)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>International trade--Environmental aspects--Congresses.<br/>Foreign trade regulation--Congresses.<br/>Commerce international--Aspect de l'environnement--Congr�es.<br/>Commerce ext�erieur--R�eglementation--Congr�es.<br/>TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Environmental--Pollution Control.<br/>Foreign trade regulation.<br/>International trade--Environmental aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Samfundsvidenskab  Samfundsvidenskab, alment. 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.<br/>Conference papers and proceedings.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD4482  / .I53 2000eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>628/.54 
<br/><br/><label>National Agricultural Library Call No.: </label>HF1372  / .I52 2000