Routledge Handbook of Biodiversity and the Law

Herausgeber: McManis, Charles R; Ong, Burton

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides a reference textbook and comprehensive compilation of multifaceted perspectives on the legal issues arising from the conservation and exploitation of non-human biological resources.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 173mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9780367505240
• ISBN-10: 036750524X
• Artikelnr.: 69030946

Autorenporträt

Charles R. McManis is the former Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law Emeritus and former Director of the Intellectual Property and Technology Law Program at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. His book, Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition in a Nutshell, is now in its seventh edition. He is also co-author of Licensing Intellectual Property in the Information Age, the second edition of which was published in 2005. Burton Ong is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore, where he was Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law between 2014 and 2017. He teaches and researches in the areas of Competition Law, Intellectual Property and Contract Law. He is the editor of Intellectual Property and Biological Resources (2004) and has an interest in the biodiversity and wildlife laws of the ASEAN member countries.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction 1. Biodiversity and the Law: Mapping the International
Legal Terrain 2. Biodiversity and the Law in Brief Part II: Conservation
and Sustainable Use of Genetic Resources 3. Biodiversity in International
Environmental Law Through the UN Sustainable Development Goals 4.
Biodiversity, Protected Areas and the Law 5. The International Legal
Framework for the Protection of and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological
Diversity 6. Biosecurity, Invasive Species and the Law 7. Biotechnology,
Biodiversity and the Environment 8. Legal Responses in the United States to
Biodiversity Loss and Climate Change 9. China's Biodiversity Law 10. The
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture:
Toward the Realization of Farmers' Rights as a Means of Protecting and
Enhancing Crop Genetic Diversity Part III: Access and Benefit-Sharing 11.
Access to and Benefit-Sharing of Marine Genetic Resources Beyond National
Jurisdiction: Developing a New Legally Binding Instrument 12. The Impact of
Natural Products Discovery Programs on our Knowledge of the Flora of
Madagascar 13. Regulatory Measures on Access and Benefit-Sharing for
Biological and Genetic Resources: National and Regional Perspectives from
the Philippines, Singapore and ASEAN 14. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?
Implementing Access and Benefit-Sharing Legislation in South Africa 15.
De-Materialising Genetic Resources: Synthetic Biology, Intellectual
Property and the ABS Bypass Part IV: Traditional Knowledge Protection 16.
Traditional Knowledge: Lessons from the Past, Lessons for the Future 17.
Bioprospecting and Traditional Knowledge in Australia 18. If we have never
been Modern, they have never been Traditional: 'Traditional Knowledge',
Biodiversity, and the Flawed ABS Paradigm 19. Where Custom is the Law:
State and User Obligations to 'Take into Consideration' Customary Law
Governing Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources Part V: Biodiversity
and Intellectual Property Protection 20. Biodiversity, Intangible Cultural
Heritage and Intellectual Property 21. Intellectual Property, Biodiversity
and Food Security 22. Sisyphus Redivivus? The Work of WIPO on Genetic
Resources and Traditional Knowledge 23. Is the Whole Greater than the Sum
of its Parts? A Critical Reflection on the WIPO IGC Part VI: The Ethics,
Economics and Science-Policy Interface of Biodiversity Protection 24.
Naturalizing Morality 25. Making Legal Use of the Valuation of Nature 26.
Bounded Openness as the Modality for the Global Multilateral
Benefit-Sharing Mechanism of the Nagoya Protocol 27. The IPBES,
Biodiversity and the Law: Design, Functioning and Perspectives of the
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services