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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      21 January 2010
      26 October 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511623417
      9780521635806
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511623417
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      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 288 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Economics, Life Sciences, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Ecology and Conservation
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    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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    "...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

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