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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... drafted the first code of ethics, a 'Statement on Problems in Anthropological Research and Ethics', adopted in 1967. In 1968 ... draft code of ethics. Some members of AAA objected to the committee as being itself an 'unethical' structure ...
... drafting session and an open symposium during the five days of the conference itself. The pre-congress workshops sought to: • review the draft code of ethics and standards of practice prepared by the GCBCD; and • evaluate 43 indigenous ...
... draft Guidelines for Research, Collections, Databases and Publications, and these were deferred to the ethics committee for further consultation and revision in preparation for a final debate and vote for adoption at the Seventh ...
... (Draft Code of Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans, 1997). Final revisions were approved by the three councils in 1998. The current Tri-Council policy statement includes (among others) sections on free and informed consent ...
... draft legislation to regulate biodiversity research. Additionally, as an increasing number of countries develop legislation regulating the collection, use and transfer of genetic resources and traditional knowledge, researchers must ...
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 |