Intellectual Property, Community Rights and Human Rights : The Biological and Genetic Resources...
ISBN: 9780415479424 | 0415479428
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 6/17/2010
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This book considers the issue of biodiversity in developing countries in relation to intellectual-property rights, community rights and human rights. Drawing together a number of case studies of developing countries rich in biological and genetic resources including India, South Africa and Brazil, the book examines the access to PGRs and their utilizations in the contexts of scientific and commercial oriented activities pursued both in the source and user countries. Exploring how community rights are protected in national biodiversity-related r... MORE
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| List of abbreviations xiii | |
| Setting the scene | p. 1 |
| Patents, PBRs and community rights in international forums | p. 23 |
| Brief overview on community rights in selected national regulatory instruments | p. 42 |
| Selected international and regional human-rights instruments and their provisions on community rights and ... MORE | p. 57 |
| Incursion in the 'bio-piracy' debate: modem exploitation of biodiversity components of developing countries and community rights | p. 83 |
| Soft and regional undertakings aimed at community rights | p. 106 |
| Broader framework of the suggested regulatory measures | p. 117 |
| Applicability of the regulatory measures | p. 133 |
| Final remarks | p. 158 |
| CITES permitting approach in brief | p. 160 |
| Laws, policies, professional and ethical codes and declarations | p. 162 |
| Glossary | p. 166 |
| Notes | p. 169 |
| Bibliography | p. 186 |
| Index | p. 195 |
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