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Author Kamau, Evanson Chege

Title Common Pools of Genetic Resources : Equity and Innovation in International Biodiversity Law
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (457 pages)
Series Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
Routledge research in international environmental law.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Common pools of genetic resources and related traditional and modern knowledge: an overview; Part I Local approaches; 2 Common pools of traditional knowledge: the story of the Kukula traditional health practitioners of Bushbuckridge, Kruger to Canyons (K2C) Biosphere Reserve, South Africa; 3 Common pools of traditional knowledge and related genetic resources: a case study of San-Hoodia
4 Reinventing traditional medicine: Pacari and its struggle towards health, environmental protection and benefit sharing5 Guardians of the seed: the role of Andean farmers in the caring and sharing of agrobiodiversity; Part II National approaches; 6 Genetic resources common pools in Brazil; 7 Developing a common pools strategy for genetic resources for food and agriculture: a case study of Malaysia; 8 Common pools of traditional Chinese medical knowledge in China; 9 Common pools in aquaculture: exploring patent law, ABS and sui generis options; Part III Transnational approaches
10 Practices of exchanging and utilizing genetic resources for food and agriculture and the access and benefit-sharing regime11 Global scientific research commons under the Nagoya Protocol: governing pools of microbial genetic resources; 12 Networks of ex situ collections of genetic resources; 13 Biological databases for marine organisms: what they contain and how they can be used in ABS contexts; 14 Knowledge commons, intellectual property and the ABS regime; Part IV International approaches; 15 ABS, justice, pools and the Nagoya Protocol
16 The World Health Organization's Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework as a public health resources pool17 The multilateral system of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: lessons and room for further development; 18 Exploring bases for building common pools in Eastern Africa; 19 Common pools for marine genetic resources: a possible instrument for a future multilateral agreement addressing marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction; Index
Summary Managing genetic resources and traditional knowledge is critical to one of the most significant issues facing the global environment - maintenance of biodiversity. Written by a team of expert academics and practitioners in the field, this innovative book makes a timely and valuable contribution to academic and policy debates in International Environmental Law, International Biodiversity Law, Intellectual Property, Climate Law and the Law of Indigenous Populations. Taking an inductive approach, it starts from existing pools and discusses how they could be further developed to cope with the obje
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Subject Germplasm resources conservation -- Law and legislation.
Biodiversity conservation -- Law and legislation.
Traditional ecological knowledge -- Law and legislation.
Biodiversity conservation -- Law and legislation
Germplasm resources conservation -- Law and legislation
Traditional ecological knowledge -- Law and legislation
Form Electronic book
Author Winter, Gerd
ISBN 9781135069704
1135069700