ABSTRACT
This volume provides a reference textbook and comprehensive compilation of multifaceted perspectives on the legal issues arising from the conservation and exploitation of non-human biological resources. Contributors include leading academics, policy-makers and practitioners reviewing a range of socio-legal issues concerning the relationships between humankind and the natural world.
The Routledge Handbook of Biodiversity and the Law includes chapters on fundamental and cutting-edge issues, including discussion of major legal instruments such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol.
The book is divided into six distinct parts based around the major objectives which have emerged from legal frameworks concerned with protecting biodiversity. Following introductory chapters, Part II examines issues relating to conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, with Part III focusing on access and benefit-sharing. Part IV discusses legal issues associated with the protection of traditional knowledge, cultural heritage and indigenous human rights. Parts V and VI focus on a selection of intellectual property issues connected to the commercial exploitation of biological resources, and analyse ethical issues, including viewpoints from economic, ethnobotanical, pharmaceutical and other scientific industry perspectives.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|23 pages
Introduction
part II|129 pages
Conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources
chapter 10|19 pages
The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
part III|82 pages
Access and benefit-sharing
chapter 11|18 pages
Access to and benefit-sharing of marine genetic resources beyond national jurisdiction
chapter 13|18 pages
Regulatory measures on access and benefit-sharing for biological and genetic resources
chapter 14|21 pages
One step forward, two steps back?
chapter 15|18 pages
De-materializing genetic RESOURCES
part IV|73 pages
Traditional knowledge protection
chapter 18|15 pages
If we have never been modern, they have never been traditional
chapter 19|19 pages
Where custom is the law
part V|48 pages
Biodiversity and intellectual property protection
chapter 23|9 pages
Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts?
part VI|49 pages
The ethics, economics and science-policy interface of biodiversity protection