The urgent need to ensure the conservation of biological diversity is now widely recognized, but practical measures to protect endangered species and habitats are still small-scale and generally limited to developed countries. This volume offers a detailed analysis of the economic and scientific rationales for biodiversity conservation. It discusses the justification for, and implementation of intellectual property rights regimes as incentive systems to encourage conservation. The contributions form an interdisciplinary approach encompassing fields of study such as evolutionary biology, chemistry, economics and legal studies. The arguments are presented through the case study of medicinal plant use in the pharmaceutical industry. The book will be of interest and relevance to a broad spectrum of conservationists from research students to policy makers.
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"...a detailed analysis of the economic and scientific rationales for the use of property rights-based approach to biodiversity conservation....The book will be of interest and relevance to a broad spectrum of conservationists from research students to policy makers." Environment International
"This book gives a lot of interesting information about intellectual property rights and biodiversity conservation....The book does not pretend to give an answer on how biodiversity conservation is to be achieved, but gives hints and counsels in which direction solutions could be found....I would like to express my hope that the discussion about biodiversity conservation will finally lead to concrete results. I am convinced that this book is a step in the right direction." Stefan Gafner, Ecoscience
"This book gives a lot of interesting information about intellectual property rights and biodiversity conservation....The book does not pretend to give an answer on how biodiversity conservation is to be achieved, but gives hints and counsels in which direction solutions could be found....I would like to express my hope that the discussion about biodiversity conservation will finally lead to concrete results. I am convinced that this book is a step in the right direction." Stefan Gafner, Ecoscience
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The urgent need to ensure the conservation of biological diversity is now widely recognised, but practical measures to protect endangered species and habitats are still relatively few and generally limited to developed countries. This book discusses the economic and scientific rationales for biodiversity conservation, using arguments drawn from the use of medicinal plants in the pharmaceutical industry. It will be of interest to a broad spectrum of conservationists, from research students to policy makers.
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For many years botanists were puzzled by the presence of certain non-essential chemical substances found within many forms of plant life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plant breeding rights, unmodified genetic material, forest medical resources, plant screening program, natural products program, specialised species, ethnobotanical information, plant secondary compounds, sui generis right, plant genetic material, wider portfolio, ethnobotanical knowledge, portfolio effect, diversity decline, plant metabolites Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Costa Rican, Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, National Academy Press, National Cancer Institute, Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, New Series, Secondary Plant Products, San Diego, Shaman Pharmaceuticals, Their Interactions, Third World, West Africa, North America, Oxford University Press, World Health Organization, Island Press, John Wiley, National Research Council, Wildlife Department, World Resources Institute, Ann Arbor, Chiang Mai, Eli Lilly New!
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For many years botanists were puzzled by the presence of certain non-essential chemical substances found within many forms of plant life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plant breeding rights, unmodified genetic material, forest medical resources, plant screening program, natural products program, specialised species, ethnobotanical information, plant secondary compounds, sui generis right, plant genetic material, wider portfolio, ethnobotanical knowledge, portfolio effect, diversity decline, plant metabolites Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Costa Rican, Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, National Academy Press, National Cancer Institute, Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, New Series, Secondary Plant Products, San Diego, Shaman Pharmaceuticals, Their Interactions, Third World, West Africa, North America, Oxford University Press, World Health Organization, Island Press, John Wiley, National Research Council, Wildlife Department, World Resources Institute, Ann Arbor, Chiang Mai, Eli Lilly New!
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- Conservation of Medicinal Plants by Olayiwola Akerele on 5 pages
- Secondary Plant Products (Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, New Ser., V. 8) by E. A. Bell on 4 pages
- Plant Physiology by Wiley on page 40, page 41, and page 43
- Sustainable Harvest and Marketing of Rain Forest Products by Mark Plotkin on page 62, and page 63
- Rain Forest (Topic Books) by Fiona MacDonald on page 62, and page 63
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- Intellectual Property Rights Trade and Biodiversity by Graham Dutfield in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Catastrophe: Risk and Response by Richard A. Posner in Back Matter
- International Law and Indigenous Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Plant Biodiversity, and Traditional Medicine by Chidi Oguamanam in Back Matter
- Community Resources: Intellectual Property, International Trade And Protection Of Traditional Knowledge (Globalization and Law) by Johanna Gibson in Back Matter
- Biodiversity in Agroecosystems (Advances in Agroecology) by Wanda W. Collins on page 264
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