Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge: Equitable Partnerships in PracticeBiodiversity research and prospecting are long-standing activities taking place in a new legal and ethical environment. Following entry into force of the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1993, and other recent policy developments, expectations and obligations for research and prospecting partnerships have changed. However, to date there are few guides to integrating these concepts with practice. This book offers practical guidance on how to arrive at equitable biodiversity research and prospecting partnerships. Drawing on experience and lessons learned from around the world, it provides case studies, analysis and recommendations in a range of areas that together form a new framework for creating equity in these partnerships. They include researcher codes of ethics, institutional policies, community research agreements, the design of more effective commercial partnerships and biodiversity prospecting contracts, the drafting and implementation of national 'access and benefit-sharing' laws, and institutional tools for the distribution of financial benefits. As part of the People and Plants initiative to enhance the role of communities in efforts to conserve biodiversity and use natural resources sustainably, Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge will be invaluable to students, researchers and local communities, academic institutions, international agencies, government bodies and companies involved in biodiversity research, prospecting and conservation. |
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... International's (CI) Conservation Finance Programme, has been with the organization since 1994. As the director of Conservation Finance, she creates flexible mechanisms to fund and structure conservation projects, including debt-for ...
... International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Commission on Environmental Law and an ... International Society for Ethnobiology and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. He was also a recipient of the ...
... international agencies, which undertake research, provide funding and set or implement international legal standards (see Chapters 1 and 12). The scope and nature of research activities, and the parties involved in biodiversity research ...
... International policy instruments – such as the International Labor Organization Convention 169 Concerning Indigenous Peoples (1989), the Convention on Desertification and Drought (1994), the UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of ...
... International; Elpidio V Peria, SEARICE; Hew Prendergast, RBG Kew; Joshua Rosenthal, NIH; Steve Rubinstein; Manuel Ruiz, SPDA; Diane Russell, ICRAF; Trish ... International Environmental Law; Conservation International; the Acknowledgements.
Contents
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Biodiversity research and prospecting in protected areas | 125 |
Community relationships with researchers | 177 |
The commercial use of biodiversity and traditional knowledge
| 239 |
National policy context | 360 |
Conclusions and recommendations | 415 |
Directory of useful contacts and resources | 430 |
Contributors contact information | 443 |
Acronyms and abbreviations | 447 |
Glossary | 454 |
References | 461 |
Index | 489 |
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Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge: Equitable Partnerships in Practice Sarah A Laird Limited preview - 2010 |
Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge: Equitable Partnerships in Practice Sarah A. Laird Limited preview - 2002 |