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. |
From inside the book
... Chapter 1). Biodiversity research and biodiversity prospecting are the activities upon which the partnerships addressed in this book are based. Biodiversity research is at heart academic, and is conducted in the pursuit of primarily ...
... Chapter 12); and self-regulation by professionals (eg institutional policies and codes of ethics; see Chapters 2 and 3) (Gollin, 1999). Development of standard terms in contractual agreements has also contributed a baseline for ...
... Chapter 9). One result of increased consolidation is that already large companies become even larger and more inscrutable, and corporate revenues dwarf the gross domestic product (GDP) of countries from which they seek to access genetic ...
... Chapter 12; Dutfield, 1999; Dutfield, 2000; Shiva, 1998). The drive towards expansion of IPRs to serve developed country biotechnology-based industries has meant that the implications for these new rules are unclear, and appear ...
... chapters grow – addressing specific tools that might be employed to achieve these obligations and responsibilities. Chapter 2 describes the efforts of a number of professional research societies to develop codes of ethics and research ...
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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