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Genetic resources, traditional knowledge and the law :

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1844077934

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1849770093

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9781844077939

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9781849770095

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b771665

Title Proper

Genetic resources, traditional knowledge and the law :

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[Book]

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solutions for access and benefit sharing /

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edited by Evanson C. Kamau and Gerd Winter.

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Sterling, VA :

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Earthscan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2009.

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1 online resource (xxxiii, 494 pages) :

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illustrations

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Access to GRs and benefit sharing : underlying concepts and the idea of justice / Peter-Tobias Stoll -- Towards regional common pools of GRs : improving the effectiveness and justice of ABS / Gerd Winter -- The diversity of principles underlying the concept of benefit sharing / Bram De Jonge, Niels Louwaars -- ABS in relation to marine GRs / Alexander Proelss -- Potential of TK for conventional therapy : prospects and limits / Jack K. Githae -- Setting protection of TK to rights : placing human rights and customary law at the heart of TK governance / Brendan Tobin -- A socio-legal inquiry into the protection of disseminated traditional knowledge : learning from Brazilian cases / John B. Kleba -- Protecting TK amid disseminated knowledge : a new task for ABS regimes? : a Kenyan legal view / Evanson C. Kamau -- The law-making process of access and benefit-sharing regulations : the case of Kenya / Anne N. Angwenyi -- Brazil's experience in implementing its ABS regime : suggestions for reform and the relationship with the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture / Juliana Santilli -- Finding a path through the ABS maze : challenges of regulating access and ensuring fair benefit sharing in South Africa / Rachel Wynberg and Mandy Taylor.

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The process of legislation on access and benefit sharing in China : a new long March / Tianbao Qin -- The role of the National Biodiversity Institute in the use of biodiversity for sustainable development : forming bioprospecting partnerships / Jorge Cabrera Medaglia -- Australian ABS law and administration : a model law and approach? / Geoff Burton -- PIC in access to TK in Brazil / Sandra A.S. Kishi -- Design and functions of data bases on TK : the case of Venezuela / María Julia Ochoa -- Biopiracy or fallacy? : identifying genuine biopiracy cases in Ecuador / Monica Ribadeneira Sarmiento -- Sharing the benefits of using traditionally cultured GRs fairly / Christiane Gerstetter -- Streamlining access procedures and standards / Evanson C. Kamau and Gerd Winter -- Capacity development in a changing world : three years of the ABS capacity development initiative for Africa : achievements and perspectives / Peter Munyi [and others] -- Disclosure requirement : a critical appraisal / Evanson C. Kamau -- Enforcement of benefit-sharing duties in user countries' courts / Christine Godt -- Enforcement of ABS agreements in user states / Hiroji Isozaki.

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The need to regulate access to genetic resources and ensure a fair and equitable sharing of any resulting benefits was at the core of the development of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The CBD established a series of principles and requirements around access and benefit sharing (ABS) in order to increase transparency and equity in the international flow of genetic resources, yet few countries have been able to effectively implement them and ABS negotiations are often paralysed by differing interests. This book not only examines these complex challenges, but offers workable, polic.

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MIL

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240227

Title

Genetic resources, traditional knowledge and the law.

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9781844077939

Biotechnology-- International cooperation.

Biotechnology-- Law and legislation.

Biotechnology, Patents.

Indigenous peoples-- Legal status, laws, etc.

Transgenic organisms.

Biotechnology-- International cooperation.

Biotechnology-- Law and legislation.

Biotechnology.

Indigenous peoples-- Legal status, laws, etc.

LAW-- Military.

Transgenic organisms.

LAW-- 068000

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Kamau, Evanson C.

Winter, Gerd.

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20201206173416.0

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[Book]

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