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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... Economic Botany, the New York Botanical Garden. He has conducted ethnobotanical research in Madre de Dios, Peru, and Beni, Bolivia, since 1985, working with a total of six different ethnic groups. His doctoral dissertation (1999, City ...
... economic progress while balancing environmental and social concerns, and how equity can be built into the distribution of benefits derived from the commercialization of natural resources obtained from biologically diverse countries. In ...
... economic and political inequality, and undergoing rapid globalization and transformation of economic, legal and scientific relations, 'equity' – a dynamic, culturally framed concept – is clearly difficult to approximate in practice ...
... Economic Botany, American Society of Pharmacognosy, American Anthropological Association and the Asian Symposium on Medicinal Plants. In Chapter 3, we will see that a range of institutions, including the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the ...
... economic and political pressure, and these groups more than ever need information and tools to effectively make decisions and defend their interests. Biodiversity research programmes should incorporate the resource management needs of ...
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 |