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"This book covers an enormous span of issues and disciplinary perspectives. Especially welcome is the authors' efforts to address the moral and ethical aspects of this important topic."--Walter A. Rosenbaum, University of Florida
List of contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction / Lakshman D. Guruswamy and Jeffrey A. McNeely 1
I. Identifying the Problem: An Overview
Biological Extinction: Its Scope and Meaning for Us / Peter H. Raven and Jeffrey A. McNeely 13
Biodiversity and Public Policy: The Middle of the Road / Ariel E. Lugo 33
II. Scientific Responses
Biotechnology Can Help Reduce the Loss of Biodiversity / Robert B. Horsch and Robert T. Fraley 49
Agricultural Industrialization and the Loss of Biodiversity / Laura L. Jackson 66
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Ex Situ "Library of Life" Strategy / Gregory Benford 87
III. Economic Responses
Sustainable Development and North-South Trade / Graciela Chichilnisky 101
Markets and Biodiversity / Geoffrey M. Heal 118
The Commercialization of Indigenous Genetic Resources as Conservation and Development Policy / R. David Simpson, Roger A. Sedjo, and John W. Reid 129
IV. Institutional Responses
Scales, Polycentricity, and Incentives: Designing Complexity to Govern Complexity / Elinor Ostrom 149
Halting the Loss of Biodiversty: International Institutional Measures / Walter V. Reid 168
Rewarding Local Communities for Conserving Biodiversity: The Case of the Honey Bee / Anil K. Gupta 180
International Research on Crop Plants: Strategies for Utilizing Biotechnology and Proprietary Products / Gary H. Toenniessen 190
The Mayagna Indigenous Community of Nicaragua: Moving from Conflict to a Convergence of Interests / S. James Anaya and S. Todd Crider 202
Biodiversity Prospecting Frameworks: The INBio Experience in Costa Rica / Ana M. Sittenfeld and Annie Lovejoy 223
V. Moral Responses
Biological Resources and Endangered Species: History, Values, and Policy / Bryan G. Norton 247
On the Uses of Biodiversity / Mark Sagoff 265
VI. Legal Implementation
What to Do About Biodiversity: The Earth's Biological Riches in Law and Economics / Christopher D. Stone 287
Aspects of Intellectual Property in Biotechnology: Some European Legal Perspectives / Yvonne Cripps 316
Animals as Inventions: Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights / Mark Sagoff 331
The Convention of Biological Diversity: A Polemic / Lakshman D. Guruswamy 351
Transformative Possibilities: Reinventing the Convention on Biological Diversity / Brent Hendricks 360
Conclusion: How to Save the Biodiversity of Planet Earth / Jeffrey A. McNeely and Lakshman D. Guruswamy 376
Appendix 393
Contributors 415
Index 421
About the author
Lakshman D. Guruswamy and Jeffrey A. McNeely, eds.
Summary
This project discusses the creation and design of environmental policies that will preserve forests, wetlands and animals threatened with extinction because of population growth.
