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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... issues and questions that researchers may wish to address as they develop their fieldwork projects. We begin by providing a brief overview of the characteristics of biodiversity research itself, and then proceed to lay out some of the ...
... issues, ranging from the researchers' relationships with local communities, to the roles of researchers as mediators between actors, agents and interests in a world permeated by social and economic inequalities. Biodiversity and genetic ...
... issues of informed consent and whether or not benefit or harm might result for the communities under study. For example, the American Anthropological Association's Committee on Ethics deals increasingly with issues involved in the ...
... issues raised by biodiversity research. They have found that although scientists are increasingly called upon to justify research on economic and ethical grounds, and are asked to advise policy-makers on environmental issues, they ...
... issues and questions raised by biodiversity research are issues that anthropologists have examined and explored for quite some time. These include issues relating to the articulation between local and global agents and processes ...
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 |
Other editions - View all
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 |