Prescribing engagement in environmental risk assessment for gene drive technology
Hartley, S; Kokotovich, A; McCalman, C
Date: 29 March 2022
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Journal
Regulation and Governance
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Wiley
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Abstract
Gene drive technology is a nascent biotechnology with potential to purposefully alter or
eliminate a species. There have been broad calls for engagement to inform gene drive
governance. Over the past seven years, the gene drive community has been developing risk
assessment guidelines to determine what form future gene drive risk ...
Gene drive technology is a nascent biotechnology with potential to purposefully alter or
eliminate a species. There have been broad calls for engagement to inform gene drive
governance. Over the past seven years, the gene drive community has been developing risk
assessment guidelines to determine what form future gene drive risk assessments take, including
whether and how they involve engagement. To explore who is developing these guidelines and
how engagement in risk assessment is being prescribed, we conduct a document analysis of gene
drive risk assessment guideline documents from 2014 to 2020. We found that a narrow set of
organizations have developed ten key guideline documents and that with only one exception the
documents prescribe a narrow, vague, or completely absent role for engagement in gene drive
risk assessment. Without substantively prescribed engagement in guidelines, the relevance, rigor,
and trustworthiness of gene drive risk assessment and governance will suffer.
Management
Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy
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