Position: Senior research fellow

Phone: (+47) 77 64 46 42

Fax: (+47) 77 64 61 00

E-mail: anne.myhr@genok.org 
 

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Dr. Anne Ingeborg Myhr is employed as a scientist at the Norwegian Institute of Gene Ecology in Tromsø. She holds a Master’s degree in Biotechnology from NTNU, Trondheim, and a PhD from the University of Tromsø. The title of her PhD thesis is Precaution, Context and Sustainability. A Study of How Ethical Values may be Involved in Risk Governance of GMOs. Myhr’s present research engagements are within the use of DNA vaccines, an interdisciplinary project, elaboration of philosophical perspectives on GMOs, and capacity building in risk assessment and management of GMO use and release in the Third World.

Publications 2010:

Aslaksen, I., Glomsrød, S., Myhr, A.I. (2010) Climate change and economic system impacts on self-sufficiency constraints and potentials –Perspectives from ecological economics, in: The Political Economy of Northern Regional Development, TemaNord 2010:521, pp 175-189.

Gillund, F and Myhr, A.I. 2010. Perspectives on Salmon Feed: A Deliberative Assessment of Several Alternative Feed Resources. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. DOI 10.1007/s10806-010-9237-7

Myhr, A.I. 2010 The Challenge of Scientific Uncertainty and Disunity in Risk Assessment and Management of GM Crops in Environmental Values 19:7-31. doi: 10.3197/096327110X485365

Myhr, A.I. 2010. A Precautionary Approach to Genetically Modified Organisms: Challenges and Implications for Policy and Science in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics [Epub ahead of print]. DOI:10.1007/s10806-010-9234-x

Myhr, A.I. (2010) Precautionary approach to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the need for biosafety research. In: Gottwald, F. et al (eds) Food Ethics, Springer, New York, pp.87-101.

Olesen, I., Myhr, A.I. and G. Kristin Rosendal, G.K. (2010) Sustainable Aquaculture: Are We Getting There? Ethical Perspectives on Salmon Farming Online First™, 14 June 2010 Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Ethics

Wickson, F., Gillund, F. and Myhr, A.I. (2010) Treating Nanoparticles with Precaution: The Importance of Recognising Qualitative Uncertainty in Scientific Risk Assessment. In: Nano goes macro, Social Perspectives on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Eds Kjølberg, K., Wickson, F. Pan Stanford Publishing, pp. 445-473