Environmental Costs and Benefits of Transgenic Crops

- Preface

1. Environmental costs and benefits of transgenic crops: Introduction

2. Environmental effects of genetically modified crops: differentiated risk assessment and management

3. Assessing the environmental impact of changes in pesticide use on transgenic crops

4. Biological limits on agricultural intensification: an example from resistence management

5. Stability of pathogen-derived Potato virus Y resistance in potato under field conditions and some aspects of their ecological impact

6. Bacillus thuringiensis resistance management: experiences from the USA

7. Gene flow from crops to wild plants and its population-ecological consequences in the context of GM-crop biosafety, including some recent experiences with lettuce

8. Irreversible costs and benefits of transgenic crops: what are they?

9. Ex post evidence on adoption of transgenic crops: US soybeans

10. Spatial and temporal dynamics of gene movements arising from deployment of transgenic crops

11. Minimum distance requirements and liability: implications for co-existence

12. Biotechnology, the US-EU dispute and the Precautionary Principle

13. Do patent-style intellectual property rights on transgenic crops harm the environment?

14.a. Agricultural biotechnology and globalization: U.S. experience with public and private sector research

15. Will consumers lose or gain from the environmental impacts of transgenic crops?

16. Conclusions

- List of authors