However, even herbicide-tolerant cropshavesomeenvironmentalbenefitsthroughreduced production and application of herbicides. Insect and dis- ease-resistantcrops will havefewer impactson nontarget organisms than conventional crops and their manage- ment, and so may offer direct environmental benefits....
EU-funded project GRACE (G MO R isk A ssessment and C ommunication of E vidence), which aims to provide comprehensive reviews of the evidence on the health, environmental and socio-economic impacts of GM plants – considering both risks and possible benefits ( http://www.grace-fp7.eu)....
GM crops and equivocal environmental benefits. This paper briefly discusses the risk to the environment of the introduction of genetically-modified herbicide tolerant crops in the UK. B Johnson,A Hope - 《Nature Biotechnology》 被引量: 347发表: 2000年 GM crops : environmental risks and not-...
whole neighborhood. Second, while the financial cost of improving the environment often falls on one small section of society (e.g., the owner of the factory), the benefits normally are spread widely among myriad of users. This is partly why polluters, who have a strong incentive to unite ...
The outreach email included an overview of what the survey entailed (i.e., confidential and anonymous survey, questions that were multiple-choice and open-ended, using Qualtrics), as well as potential benefits of participating and information on how the results were handled. 2.3 Survey ...
comprehensive review of national, EU and international research activities in this regard and in view of any potential benefits of GMOs is missing.” A list of review questions of high relevance for Europe was developed within the EU project GRACE (GMO Risk Assessment and Communication of Evidence...
Some observers have argued that decentralizing environmental policy implementation in this fashion benefits society by promoting public participation and policy responsiveness to local environmental concerns; others question whether the EPA should devolve environmental regulatory authority to state and local govern...
Kranthi and Stone’s observation of the time-limited pest control benefits of Bt cotton is borne out by media reports in 2017 of hundreds of incidents of accidental farmer pesticide poisoning (including deaths) due to farmers resorting to spraying a cocktail of toxic pesticides on their Bt cotton...
While evidence in literature regarding the environmental benefits of the alternatives mentioned above is overwhelming, there is an important risk to bringing their production to industrial scales which is particularly relevant to the case of seaweed as pig feed. Seaweed requires large amounts of energy...
Secondly, future-oriented estimates of the costs and benefits of specific interventions—directed at tackling climate change and promoting sustainable development—are likely to be diverse, uncertain and shift over time and place. Policy responses need to account for both short-term and long-term traj...