1st Edition

Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources, Information and Traditional Knowledge

Edited By Charles Lawson, Michelle Rourke, Fran Humphries Copyright 2023
256 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Addressing the management of genetic resources, this book offers a new assessment of the contemporary Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) regime. Debates about ABS have moved on. The initial focus on the legal obligations established by international agreements like the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and the form of obligations for collecting physical biological materials have... Read more

1. Finding Solutions to the Intractable ABS Problems

Charles Lawson, Fran Humphries and Michelle Rourke

Theme 1 – Governance issues (working better) 

2. The CBD’s Term ‘Sovereign Right(s)’ Does Not Necessarily Mean Sovereignty

Todd Berry

3. Common Heritage or Sovereign Resource? The World Health Organisation’s Inconsistent Approach to Pathogen Sharing

Mark Eccleston-Turner and Michelle Rourke

4. Access and Benefit Sharing in a Pandemic Treaty and Future International Public Health Agreements

Sam F. Halabi

5. Access and Benefit Sharing and Biodiversity Conservation: The Unrealized Connection

Rachel Wynberg and Sarah Laird

6. Message in a Bottle: DNA Computers Challenge Access and Benefit Sharing Regulation

Fran Humphries, Michelle Rourke and Charles Lawson

Theme 2 – ‘Digital Sequence Information’ and Dealing with Information

7. What Should We Mean by ‘Open Access’?

Marcel Jaspars and Abbe E.L. Brown

8. Value Judgements and the Management of Digital Sequence Information Under the International Access and Benefit Sharing Regime

Michelle Rourke

9. Access and Benefit Sharing and Digital Sequence Information: Unravelling the Knot

Christine Frison and Elsa Tsioumani

10. Compatible or Incompatible? DSI, Open Access and Benefit Sharing

Rodrigo Sara, Andrew Lee Hufton and Amber Hartman Scholz

11. Access and Benefit Sharing and Digital Sequence Information in Africa: A Critical Analysis of Contemporary Concerns in Regional Governance

Titilayo Adebola and Daniele Manzella

Theme 3 – Embracing Indigenous Peoples and local communities

12. Biocultural Community Protocols: Making Space for Indigenous and Local Cultures in Access and Benefit Sharing?

Christine Frison, Louisa Parks and Elsa Tsioumani

13. Access and Benefit Sharing and Biocultural Protocols in the Pacific

Daniel Robinson and Margaret Raven

14. ABS or Access Before Service: A Samoan Perspective 

Solamalemalo Saeumalo Hai Yuean Faatapepe Menime Tualima and Kathy Bowrey

Theme 4 – Compliance measures for the users of genetic resources

15. ABS from the Perspective of an Intellectual Property Professional at a Public Research Institution

Mukul Ranjan

16. Which Nagoya Protocol? User Driven Solutions to the Legal Uncertainty Created by Nagoya

Brad Sherman 

17. The Torres Strait Eight: Climate Litigation, Biodiversity, Human Rights and Indigenous Intellectual Property

Matthew Rimmer

18. Monitoring Compliance with Nagoya: Lessons from India on Building a Techno-legal Infrastructure to Track Bioprospecting Activities

Allison Fish

Biography

Charles Lawson is Professor of Law at Griffith University Law School, Australia.

Michelle Rourke is CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Fellow at Griffith University Law School, Australia.

Fran Humphries is Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.