International Law and the Conservation of Biological DiversityMichael Bowman, Catherine Redgwell Springer Netherlands, 1996 M01 10 - 334 pages This work presents a thorough analysis and commentary on the 1992 United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity which was opened for signature following the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development. This Convention is the first international treaty to explicitly address all aspects of biodiversity, ranging from the conservation of biological diversity and sustainable use of biological resources, to access to biotechnology and the safety of activities related to modified living organisms. The work extends beyond the ambit of the Convention itself to examine the conservation of biodiversity in international law, including measures for the protection of the terrestrial, marine and Antarctic environment and particular features relating to sustainable use of biological resources, ex-situ conservation and plant genetic resources. It further analyzes the controversial issue of intellectual property rights, the problems of implementation in the EU, differences between developing and developed states, and the role of indigenous people. This major new work has been written by members of the Committee on Environmental Law of the British branch of the International Law Association, following an earlier study of International Law and Global Climate Change (Graham and Trotman, 1991). |
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... Resources The resources which represent the biological diversity of nature are not in most cases like migratory animals or high seas fish : they will legally be neither " shared natural resources " nor " common property " available to ...
... biological resources in the way that the 1982 UNCLOS treats ownership of deep seabed mineral resources . 32 The terms of access to the resource are fundamentally different in these two regimes , and in the case of biological diversity ...
... biological resources . The central issue in the debate is one of control , both over access to the resources themselves , and over the benefits that potentially derive from their use . In this section , the ques- tion of control will be ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Rio Convention on Biological Diversity | 33 |
Sustainability Biodiversity and International Law | 51 |
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