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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... stakeholder Within conservation and development programmes, including protected areas, there is a trend towards greater inclusiveness of a range of stakeholders. Increasingly, protected areas managers and others recognize that it is ...
... stakeholders have proprietary rights over them. The legal foundation for this precept was laid down by the Convention on Biological Diversity, which recognizes sovereign states and certain groups as having rights over genetic resources ...
... stakeholder control over, and benefits from, biodiversity research and use. Stakeholders include indigenous peoples and local communities, research institutions, governments, protected areas and others. International policy instruments ...
... stakeholders. Areas that once amounted to 'common courtesy' (Hoagland, 1994) are now incorporated into regulations that formally stipulate the terms for 'equitable' research relationships. At the same time, researchers are often asked ...
... stakeholders. In 1994, a meeting was held by several scholars, including some non-Pew scholars, to address ethical issues raised by biodiversity research. Access to biodiversity and associated knowledge systems invariably involves ...
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 |