Valuing local knowledge : indigenous people and intellectual property rights

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Valuing local knowledge : indigenous people and intellectual property rights / edited by Stephen B. Brush and Doreen Stabinsky.

Brush, Stephen B., 1943- (Added Author). Stabinsky, Doreen. (Added Author).

Summary:

"While tropical forests are being cleared at an alarming rate, the clearing is rarely complete and is often not permanent. A considerable amount of tropical forest exists as remnants that have significant value both for the conservation of biological diversity and for meeting the needs of local people." "This volume brings together world-renowned scientists and conservationists to address the biological and socioeconomic value of forest remnants and to examine practical efforts to conserve those remnants. An outgrowth of a year-long study by the policy program at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, Forest Patches in Tropical Landscapes provides a broad overview of theory and practice and will help foster both interdisciplinary research and more effective approaches to tropical conservation and development."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 1559634251
ISBN: 9781559634250
ISBN: 155963426X
ISBN: 9781559634267
ISBN: 1559633794
ISBN: 9781559633796
ISBN: 1559633786
ISBN: 9781559633789
Physical Description: xiv, 337 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©1996.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Whose knowledge, whose genes, whose rights? / Stephen B. Brush -- Tribal rights / Thomas Greaves -- Center, periphery, and biodiversity : a paradox of governance and a developmental challenge / Michael R. Dove -- Telling stories about biological diversity / Charles Zerner -- Sketches, qualms, and other thoughts on intellectual property rights / Stephen Gudeman -- The new environmentalist movement of Latin American indigenous people / Stefano Varese -- Is common heritage outmoded? / Stephen B. Brush -- Biological diversity, indigenous knowledge, drug discovery, and intellectual property rights / Steven R. King, Thomas J. Carlson, Katy Moran -- Sharing the benefits of plant resources and indigenous scientific knowledge / Gary Paul Nabhan [and others] -- Culture and community values in the selection and maintenance of African rice / Paul Richards -- Tradition, regulation, and intellectual property : local agricultural products and foodstuffs in France / Laurence Berard, Philippe Marchenay -- Selling Hawaiian crop cultivars / Brien A. Meilleur -- Quid pro quo : alternatives for equity and conservation / Thomas D. Mays [and others] -- Agreements to collect biodiversity for pharmaceutical research : major issues and proposed principles / Francesca T. Grifo, David R. Downes -- Can the intellectual property rights system serve the interests of indigenous knowledge? / Surendra J. Patel.