Global biopiracy : patents, plants, and indigenous knowledge
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Bibliographic Information
Global biopiracy : patents, plants, and indigenous knowledge
（Law and society series）
UBC Press, c2006
Available at 4 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-303) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Legal control and ownership of plants and traditional knowledge of the uses of plants (TKUP) is a vexing issue. The phenomenon of appropriation of plants and TKUP, otherwise known as biopiracy, thrives in a cultural milieu where non-Western forms of knowledge are systemically marginalized and devalued as "folk knowledge" or characterized as inferior. Global Biopiracy rethinks the role of international law and legal concepts, the Western-based, Eurocentric patent systems of the world, and international agricultural research institutions as they affect legal ownership and control of plants and TKUP.
Table of Contents
Foreword / Teresa Scassa
Preface
Acronyms
1 Introduction
2 Patents, Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge, and Biopiracy
3 Implications of Biopiracy for Biological and Cultural Diversity
4 The Appropriative Aspects of Biopiracy
5 Patent Regimes and Biopiracy
6 Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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