088936799X 1552500551 9780889367999 9781552500552 electronic book 1280717416 9781280717413 9786610717415 6610717419
Alternate Call Number
N 637 POS.B
Summary
Broad overview of international developments in the protection of traditional resource rights; biodiversity prospecting; cultural property; Human Genome Diversity Project; traditional knowledge; ecosystems management; lists Aboriginal Australian contact organisations; includes annotated bibliography.
Note
Chapter 13 Why are funds and funding guidelines important?
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references: pages [237]-243.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Who visits communities, what are they seeking, and why? 2. What happens to traditional knowledge and resources? 3. Who benefits from traditional resources? 4. Will the community be informed? 5. What right do communities have to say "yes" or "no" to commercialization? 6. How can a community take legal action? 7. What are contracts and covenants? 8. Are intellectual property rights useful? 9. Can communities develop their own system for protecting traditional resource rights? 10. Are legally binding international agreements useful? 11. How can communities use "soft law" and nonbinding international agreements? 12. Are nongovernmental, nonlegal instruments useful? 13. Why are funds and funding guidelines important? 14. What creative strategies and unique solutions have been developed? 15. Toward protection, compensation, and community development.
Series
Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
Published
Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, c1996.