Description: Surveying the Issues: Technologies, Biology and Economics.- Biosafety in Agricultural Biotechnology: Balancing Social and Environmental Impacts.- Pest Resistance in Agriculture: An Economic Perspective.- Biotechnology for Planted Forests: An Assessment of Biological, Economic and Environmental Possibilities and Limitations.- Managing Technology: The Economics of Managing Technological Developments.- On the Economic Limits to Technological Potential: Will Industry Resolve the Resistance Problem?.- Providing the Correct Incentives for Genetic Modification.- Decision Making under Temporal Uncertainty and Irreversibility: Benchmark Values for the Release of Transgenic Crops in the EU.- Managing Biology: The Economics of Managing Biological Resistance.- Managing Pest Resistance: Timing the Initiation of Refuge Areas.- Managing the Risk of European Corn Borer Resistance to Bt Corn.- Managing Industry: The Economics of Managing Industrial Impacts.- Monopolisation and the Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops: An Economic Model.- The Diffusion of Benefits from Biotechnological Developments: The Impact of Use Restrictions on the Distribution of Benefits.- Policy Conclusions.- Plants and Biotechnologies.- Regulatory Harmony -- Who's Calling the Tune?.

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