TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swanson,Timothy M.
TI  - Intellectual property rights and biodiversity conservation: an interdisciplinary analysis of the values of medicinal plants 
SN  - 9780511623417 (ebook)
AV  - QH75 .I43 1995
U1  - 333.95/316 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Biodiversity conservation
KW  - Plant diversity conservation
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - Botanical drug industry
KW  - Medicinal plants
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Part A. Plant communities and the generation of information. Part B. The value of plant-generated information in pharmaceuticals. Part C. The institutions for regulating information from diversity. Part D. The importance of cultural diversity in biodiversity conservation
N2  - The urgent need to ensure the conservation of biological diversity is now widely recognised, but practical measures to protect endangered species and habitats are still carried out on a small scale and generally limited to developed countries. This volume provides a detailed analysis of the economic and scientific rationales for biodiversity conservation. It discusses the justification for, and implementation of intellectual property rights regimes as incentive systems  to encourage conservation. An interdisciplinary approach is used in the book, encompassing fields of study that include evolutionary biology, chemistry, economics and legal studies. The arguments are presented using the case study of the use of medicinal plants in the pharmaceutical industry. The book will be of interest and relevance to a broad spectrum of conservationists, from research students to policy makers
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511623417
ER  -