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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Equitable Partnerships in Practice Sarah A. Laird. About. the. authors. Miguel Alexiades is a Nuffield Research Fellow ... partnership with the Secwepemc (Shuswap) First Nation (BC, Canada) as part of the Secwepemc Ethnobotany Project. She ...
Equitable Partnerships in Practice Sarah A. Laird. The. People. and. Plants. Initiative. This volume is a welcome addition ... partnership between WWF and UNESCO, with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, taking an associate role and focusing, in ...
Equitable Partnerships in Practice Sarah A. Laird. tual arrangements behind them – to track materials. It is, in fact, less likely today, than in the time of smuggled rubber and quinine germplasm, that the cat will definitively be 'out ...
Equitable Partnerships in Practice Sarah A. Laird. Structure. of. the. book. People and Plants partners WWF WWF (formerly the World Wide. sional biodiversity researchers address ethical and legal issues raised by their research, and as ...
Equitable Partnerships in Practice Sarah A. Laird. wider social and conservation objectives (Orr, 1999; Richter and Redford, 1999). Through the process of developing codes of ethics, research guidelines and institutional policies ...
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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