Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity Conservation - An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Values of Medicinal Plants

Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Diversity and sustainability: evolution, information and institutions Timothy Swanson; Part A. Plant Communities and the Generation of Information: 2. Chemical diversity in plants Linda Fellows and Anthony Scofield; 3. Ethnobotany and the search for balance between use and conservation Jennie Wood Sheldon and Michael J. Balick; Part B. The Value of Plant-Generated Information in Pharmaceuticals: 4. The pharmaceutical discovery process Georg Albers-Schönberg; 5. The role of plant screening and plant supply in biodiversity conservation, drug development and health care Bruce Aylward; 6. The economic value of plant-based pharmaceuticals David Pearce and Seema Puroshothaman; Part C. The Institutions for Regulating Information from Diversity: 7. The appropriation of evolution's values: an institutional analysis of intellectual property regimes and biodiversity conservation Timothy Swanson; 8. Preserving biodiversity: the role of property rights Ian Walden; Part D. The Importance of Cultural Diversity in Biodiversity Conservation: 9. Medicinal plants, indigenous medicine and conservation of biodiversity in Ghana Katrina Brown; 10. Biodiversity and the conservation of medicinal plants: issues from the perspective of the developing world Mohamed Khalil; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Thimothy M. Swanson, Timothy (University of Cambridge) Swanson, Timothy M. Swanson
• Assisted by: Timothy Swanson (Editor), Timothy M. Swanson (Editor), Swanson Timothy (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.1998
• EAN: 9780521635806
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63580-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; NATURE / Natural Resources, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, Applied ecology, Environmental Management