Environmental technologies, intellectual property and climate change : accessing, obtaining and protecting / edited by Abbe E.L. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Abbe E. L. (Abbe Elizabeth Lockhart)

Series:

Elgar Law, Technology and Society Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual property.

Green technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many disciplines are relevant to combating climate change. This challenging book draws together legal, regulatory, geographic, industrial and professional perspectives and explores the role of technologies in addressing climate change through mitigation, adaptation and information gathering. It explores some key issues. Is intellectual property part of the solution, an obstacle to change or peripheral? Are there more important questions? Do they receive the attention they deserve? And from whom? This innovative book will play an important role in stimulating holistic discussion and action on a

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Table of cases; Introduction; 1. Low carbon futures for all? Strategic options for global availability of environmental technologies; 2. The puzzling persistence of the intellectual property right/climate change relationship; 3. Failure is not an option: enhancing the use of intellectual property tools to secure wider and more equitable access to climate change technologies; 4. Partnership and sharing: beyond mainstream mechanisms

5. Public-private partnerships for wider and equitable access to climate technologies6. Climate change, technology transfer and intellectual property rights: a modest exercise in thinking outside the box; 7. Access to essential environmental technologies and poor communities: why human rights should be prioritized; 8. Achieving greater access: a new role for established legal principles?; 9. The 'new normal': food, climate change and intellectual property; 10. Intellectual property: property rights and the public interest; 11. A view from inside the renewable energy industry

12. A private institutional investment perspectiveIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-85793-418-X

OCLC:

852534599