Biodiversity and the law
Subtitle: intellectual property, biotechnology and traditional knowledge
By: edited by Charles R. McManis.
Contributors: McManis, Charles R., 1941-
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9781844073498
Subjects: Biodiversity conservation -- Law and legislation.; Biotechnology -- Law and legislation.; Intellectual property.
Other titles: Intellectual property, biotechnology and traditional knowledge.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Biodiversity, biotechnology and traditional knowledge protection: law, science and practice / Charles R. McManis; value: The epic of evolution and the problem of biodiversity loss / Peter Raven; value: Naturalizing morality / Ursula Goodenough; value: Across the apocalypse on horseback: biodiversity loss and the law / Jim Chen; value: Impact of the Convention on Biological Diversity: the lessons of ten years of experience with models for equitable sharing of benefits / James S. Miller; value: Biodiversity, botanical institutions and benefit sharing: comments on the impact of the Convention on Biological Diversity / Kate Davis; value: The link between biodiversity and sustainable development: lessons from INBio's bioprospecting programme in Costa Rica / Rodrigo Gámez; value: On biocultural diversity from a Venezuelan perspective: tracing the interrelationships among biodiversity, culture change and legal reforms / Stanford Zent adn Egleé L. Zent; value: From the "tragedy of the commons" to the "tragedy of the commonplace": analysis and synthesis through the lens of economic theory / Joseph Henry Vogel; value: Biodiversity, biotechnology and the environment / Barbara A. Schaal; value: Principles governing the long-run risks, benefits and costs of agricultural biotechnology / Charles Benbrook; value: Costa Rica: biodiversity and biotechnology at the crossroads / Ana Sittenfeld and Ana M. Espinoza; value: Biotechnology for sustainable agricultural development in Africa: opportunities and challenges / Florence Wambugu; value: Biotechnology: public-private partnerships and intellectual property rights in the context of developing countries / Gurdev S. Khush; value: Agricultural biotechnology and developing countries: the Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA) / Sara Boettiger and Karel Schubert; value: Commentary on agricultural biotechnology / Lawrence Busch; value: The birth and death of traditional knowledge: paradoxical effects of biotechnology in India / Glenn Davis Stone; value: From the shaman's hut to the patent office: a road under construction / Nuno Pires de Carvalho; value: Traditional knowledge: lessons from the past, lessons for the future / Michael J. Balick; value: The demise of "common heritage" and protection for traditional agricultural knowledge / Stephen B. Brush; value: Traditional knowledge protection in the African region / Rabodo Andriantisferana; value: The conundrum of creativity, compensation and conservation in India: how can intellectual property rights help grass-roots innovators and traditional knowledge holders? / Anil K. Gupta; value: Holder and user perspectives in the traditional knowledge debate: a European view / Geertrui Van Overwalle; value: Politics, culture and governance in the development of prior informed consent and negotiated agreements with indigenous communities / Joshua Rosenthal; value: Ethics and practice in ethnobiology: analysis of the international cooperative biodiversity group project in Peru / Walter H. Lewis and Veena Ramani; value: Ethics and practice in Ethnobiology: the experience of the San peoples of Southern Africa / Roger Chennells; value: Commentary on biodiversity, biotechnology and traditional knowledge protection: a private-sector perspective / Steven R. King; value: Answering the call: public interest intellectual property advisers (PIIPA) / Michael a. Gollin; value: Answering the call: the intellectual property and business formation legal clinic at Washington University / Charles R. McManis.