The World Life Sciences Forum
3-Volume Set
The World Life Sciences Forum presents a wealth of background information along with current and prospective views by opinion leaders from science, society and industry, including non-governmental organizations, members of governments, ethicists, and philosophers.
Contents
Volume 1: Health for All?
- New Frontiers in New Therapies Paying Off?
- Eradication of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Is It Possible and Cost-Beneficial?
- Incentives in Policy Reforms Necessary to Stimulate Activity
- Developing Affordable Vaccines
- Why "Affordable" Vaccines are Not Available to the Poorest Countries
- Meeting the Challenges of Manufacture and Delivery of Affordable Vaccines
- Are First-World Ethics Applicable to the Third World
- Does Biotechnology Serve Africa's Needs
- New Vaccines with Global Impact: The Issue of Access
Volume 2: Agriculture and Nutrition
- Agricultural Research to Improve Human Nutrition
- How Can Agriculture and Trade Contribute to Sustainable Livelihoods for All?
- Plant Biotechnology: A Contribution to Sustainable Agriculture
- Four Theses on Agriculture, Nutrition and Sustainable Development
- Is GMO Over-regulation Costing Lives?
- How to Make the Global Food Marketplace Work Better
- Feeding the Nine Billion: The Challenge to Science
- Feeding the Nine Billion: The Challenge to Society
- Feeding the Nine Billion: The Challenge to the Marketplace
Volume 3: Bioindustry and Environment
- The Challenges for Biotechnology Posed by Human-driven Changes
- Social Acceptance of New Bioprocesses
- White Biotechnology: Science, Fiction and Reality
- Climate and Health: Predicting the Spread and Risk of Infectious Disease
- Climate Change and Human Health: The Sharp End of "Sustainability"
- White Biotechnology - For the Benefit of Climate and the Environment
- How Can the Environment Benefit from Bioindustry Innovations?
- New Energy Development: Competing Priorities of Food Security and Biofuels
- Environmental Genomics
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