TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainability in regulating biotechnology
T2 - A new form of knowledge in regulatory co‐production?
AU - Poort, Lonneke
AU - Quintavalla, Alberto
N1 - © 2024 The Author(s). Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
PY - 2024/11
Y1 - 2024/11
N2 - We analyse the extent to which sustainable development influences the co-production of regulations that target new technologies in the European Union (EU). We start by identifying the conventional forms of knowledge that serve as inputs into that co-productive process, namely scientific, societal and legal knowledge. We show that sustainability-related propositions have gained considerable traction in the regulation of genetic modification (GM) in the EU. Furthermore, the analysis reveals that sustainability cannot be reduced to scientific or societal knowledge. As far as the overlap between sustainability knowledge and legal knowledge is concerned, it is undeniable that sustainable development is deeply embedded into EU regulation; however, treating sustainable development solely as an element of the law does not capture the material influence that it exerts on society and technology, not to speak of its evolutionary flexibility. It follows that it would be best to treat sustainability as a separate input into the co-creation process.
AB - We analyse the extent to which sustainable development influences the co-production of regulations that target new technologies in the European Union (EU). We start by identifying the conventional forms of knowledge that serve as inputs into that co-productive process, namely scientific, societal and legal knowledge. We show that sustainability-related propositions have gained considerable traction in the regulation of genetic modification (GM) in the EU. Furthermore, the analysis reveals that sustainability cannot be reduced to scientific or societal knowledge. As far as the overlap between sustainability knowledge and legal knowledge is concerned, it is undeniable that sustainable development is deeply embedded into EU regulation; however, treating sustainable development solely as an element of the law does not capture the material influence that it exerts on society and technology, not to speak of its evolutionary flexibility. It follows that it would be best to treat sustainability as a separate input into the co-creation process.
UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385915176_Sustainability_in_regulating_biotechnology_A_new_form_of_knowledge_in_regulatory_co-production
U2 - 10.1111/reel.12553
DO - 10.1111/reel.12553
M3 - Article
SN - 0962-8797
VL - 33
SP - 485
EP - 493
JO - Review of European Community and International Environmental Law
JF - Review of European Community and International Environmental Law
IS - 3
ER -