Biodiversity prospecting : using genetic resources for sustainable development / Walter V. Reid ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reid, Walter V., 1956-

World Resources Institute.

Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Costa Rica)

Rainforest Alliance.

African Centre for Technology Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biodiversity conservation.

Sustainable development.

Germplasm resources.

Conservation of Natural Resources.

Ecology.

Medical Subjects:

Conservation of Natural Resources.

Ecology.

Physical Description:

ix, 341 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Using genetic resources for sustainable development.

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : World Resources Institute (WRI), USA ; [Santo Domingo, Heredia] : Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), Costa Rica ; [New York, N.Y.] : Rainforest Alliance, USA ; [Nairobi] : African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), Kenya, 1993.

Contents:

I. A new lease on life / Walter V. Reid ... [et al.]

II. Costa Rica's conservation program and national biodiversity institute (INBio) / Rodrigo Gámez .. [et al.]

III. Biodiversity prospecting by INBio / Ana Sittenfeld and Rodrigo Gámez

IV. Contracts for biodiversity prospecting / Sarah A. Laird

V. Research management policies : permits for collecting and research in the tropics / Daniel H. Janzen ... [et al.]

VI. An intellectual property rights framework for biodiversity prospecting / Michael A. Gollin

VII. Policy options for scientific and technological capacity-building / Calestous Juma with the assistance of Bernard Sihanya

Annex 1. The role of the parataxonomists, inventory managers, and taxonomists in Costa Rica's national biodiversity inventory / Daniel H. Janzen ... [et al.]

Annex 2. Biodiversity prospecting contract / David Downes ... [et al.]

Annex 3. The Convention on Biological Diversity and intellectual property rights / Michael A. Gollin

Annex 4. The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.

Notes:

"A Contribution to the WRI/IUCN/UNEP Global biodiversity strategy."

"A World Resources Institute book"--P. [1] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

World Resources Institute. Global biodiversity strategy.

ISBN:

0915825899

OCLC:

28249367