1st Edition

Biodiversity, Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Developments in Access and Benefit Sharing

Edited By Kamalesh Adhikari, Charles Lawson Copyright 2018
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

Debates about Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) have moved on in recent years. An 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 now moved to a far more complex series of disputes and challenges about the ways ABS should be... Read more

Chapter 1: Biodiversity, Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property



Charles Lawson and Kamalesh Adhikari





Chapter 2: Reconceptualising Access: Moving Beyond the Limits of International Biodiversity Laws



Kamalesh Adhikari





Chapter 3: Aligning Means and Ends to Benefit Indigenous Peoples under the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol



Edwin Bikundo





Chapter 4: Banking on a Patent Solution for Sharing Antarctica’s Ex Situ Genetic Resources



Fran Humphries





Chapter 5: Nomenclature as a Standardized Metadata System for Ordering and Accessing Information about Plants



Charles Lawson





Chapter 6: Free Prior Informed Consent - Mere Politics or Meaningful Change?



Paul Martin





Chapter 7: The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Sustainable Development: Access to Genetic Resources, Informed Consent, and Benefit Sharing



Matthew Rimmer





Chapter 8: The Limits of ABS Laws: Why Gumby Gumby and other Bush Foods and Medicines need specific Indigenous Knowledge Protections



Daniel Robinson, Margaret Raven and John Hunter





Chapter 9: Reshaping the International Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing Process? Overcoming Resistance to Change and Correction



Manuel Ruiz Muller





Chapter 10: Certified ABS: The Union for Ethical BioTrade and the use of trade and certification marks to encourage and facilitate behaviour change



Jay Sanderson, Leanne Wiseman and Drossos Stamboulakis

Biography

Charles Lawson is a Professor at the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture, Griffith Law School, Griffith University, Australia.



Kamalesh Adhikari is AIBE Research Fellow in Food Security and Member of the ARC Laureate Project ‘Harnessing Intellectual Property to Build Food Security’, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland, Australia.