Intell Prop Rights Biodiv Conservtn: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Values of Medicinal Plants - Softcover

Swanson, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521635802 ISBN 13: 9780521635806

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 carried out on a small scale and generally limited to developed countries. This volume provides 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. An interdisciplinary approach is used in the book, encompassing fields of study that include evolutionary biology, chemistry, economics and legal studies. The arguments are presented using the case study of the use of medicinal plants 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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Review

"...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

Book Description

Provides a detailed analysis of the economic and scientific rationales for biodiversity conservation and discusses intellectual property rights regimes as incentive systems to encourage conservation. Of interest and relevance to a broad spectrum of conservationists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521635802
• ISBN 13: 9780521635806
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288