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 political arena, particularly in relation to conservation and economic development. Biodiversity-rich countries experience the pressures, opportunities and conflicts of interests associated with a mounting international ...
... 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 coverage, and the ISE responded with an internal process that culminated in the ratification in 1998 of a code of ethics and guidelines for research. At its Fourth International Congress of Ethnobiology (ICE), held in ...
... International Congress, held in Aotearoa, New Zealand, in 1998 and hosted by the Maori communities and tribes of Maatatua, 44 people from 12 countries met for a four-day precongress workshop in order to prepare a revised document for ...
... international policy context in which biodiversity research and prospecting and the exchange of materials in ex-situ collections evolves, the need for institutional policies grows. As the Association of Systematics Collections' (ASC's) ...
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 |