ABSTRACT
How do we promote global economic development, while simultaneously preserving local biological and cultural diversity? This authoritative volume, written by leading legal experts and biological and social scientists from around the world, aims to address this question in all of its complexity. The first part of the book focuses on biodiversity and examines what we are losing, why and what is to be done. The second part addresses biotechnology and looks at whether it is part of the solution or part of the problem, or perhaps both. The third section examines traditional knowledge, explains what it is and how, if at all, it should be protected. The fourth and final part looks at ethnobotany and bioprospecting and offers practical lessons from the vast and diverse experiences of the contributors.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|23 pages
Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Traditional Knowledge Protection
part I|110 pages
Biodiversity
chapter 5|13 pages
Impact of the Convention on Biological Diversity
chapter 6|6 pages
Biodiversity, Botanical Institutions and Benefit sharing
chapter 7|14 pages
The Link Between Biodiversity and Sustainable Development
chapter 8|24 pages
On Biocultural Diversity from a Venezuelan Perspective
chapter 9|20 pages
From the ‘Tragedy of the Commons' to the ‘Tragedy of the Commonplace'
part II|104 pages
Biotechnology
chapter 13|5 pages
Biotechnology for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Africa
chapter 14|13 pages
Biotechnology
chapter 15|10 pages
Agricultural Biotechnology and Developing Countries
chapter 17|32 pages
The Birth and Death of Traditional Knowledge
part III|132 pages
Traditional Knowledge
chapter 22|28 pages
The Conundrum of Creativity, Compensation and Conservation in India
part IV|104 pages
Ethnobotany and Bioprospecting