Protection of global biodiversity : converging strategies / Lakshman D. Guruswamy and Jeffrey A. McNeely, editors.
1998
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Title
Protection of global biodiversity : converging strategies / Lakshman D. Guruswamy and Jeffrey A. McNeely, editors.
Published
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1998.
Call Number
QH75 .P8 1998
ISBN
0822321882 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822321505 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822321505 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
viii, 425 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)37928612
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Lakshman D. Guruswamy Jeffrey A. McNeely
1
I
Identifying the Problem: An Overview
Biological Extinction: Its Scope and Meaning for Us / Peter H. Raven 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 Robert T. Fraley
49
Agricultural Industrialization and the Loss of Biodiversity / Laura L. Jackson
66
An 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 John W. Reid
129
IV
Institutional Responses
Scales, Polycentricity, and Incentives: Designing Complexity to Govern Complexity / Elinor Ostrom
149
Halting the Loss of Biodiversity: 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
Tha Mayagna Indigenous Community of Nicaragua: Moving from Conflict to a Convergence of Interests / S. James Anaya S. Todd Crider
202
Biodiversity Prospecting Frameworks: The INBio Experience in Costa Rica / Ana M. Sittenfeld 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 on 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 Lakshman D. Guruswamy
376
Appendix
393
Contributors
415
Index
421