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Is the Value of Bioprospecting Contracts Too Low? [PDF]
In order to regulate the proliferated bioprospecting and protect the biological diversity in the source countries, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) established a legal framework for the reciprocal transfer of biological materials between the ...
Anil Markandya, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes
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The Convention on Biological Diversity's 2010 target
Himalayan Journal of Sciences, 1970 Governments are often accused of responding only to short-term and parochial considerations. It is therefore remarkable that representatives of 190 countries recently committed themselves at the Convention on Biological Diversity to reducing biodiversity loss.
Ben Ten Brink +2 more
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Economic evaluation of biological invasions: A survey [PDF]
Invasive species are one of the main reasons for the loss of biodiversity. Therefore, national strategies are developed to deal with biological invasions.
Born, Wanda +2 more
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Strengthening the global system of protected areas post-2020: A perspective from the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas [PDF]
, 2020 Protected areas are the cornerstones of biodiversity conservation and have never been more relevant than at the present time when the world is facing both a biodiversity and a climate change crisis.
Dudley, Nigel +10 more
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, 2014 For decades, conservationists have remained steadfastly committed to protected areas (PAs) as the best means to conserve biodiversity. Using Collaborative Event Ethnography of the 10 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on ...
Catherine A. Corson +8 more
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Farmers' rights and protection of traditional agricultural knowledge: [PDF]
"Although achieving in situ conservation is possible without changing farmers' customary management of crops as common pool resources, an alternative approach is to negotiate a bioprospecting contract with providers of the resource that involves direct ...
Brush, Stephen B.
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The ‘Facilitator': Proposing a New Mechanism to Strengthen the Equitable and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity [PDF]
, 2017 The focus of the Convention on Biological Diversity on conservation, the sustainable use of the greatest possible diversity of biota, and the equitable sharing of the benefits derived therefrom, has broadened the opportunities and responsibilities of a ...
Krattiger, Anatole F. +1 more
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India knows its invasive species problem but this is why nobody can deal with it properly [PDF]
, 2016 In 1993, the International Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) came into legal effect to conserve biological diversity, ensure that biological diversity would be used sustainably and that its benefits would be shared equitably.
Ankila Hiremath, J, Krishnan, Siddhartha
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People and NatureOther effective area‐based conservation measures (OECMs) are a promising tool to conserve biodiversity in human‐dominated land‐ and seascapes, but their implementation still raises some challenges.
Anna Stier +3 more
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The Convention on Biological Diversity: Opportunities and Constraints for Agricultural Systems in Canada [PDF]
Biological diversity, or biodiversity, refers to the diversity of life at all levels and the linkages between these different levels (Wilson, 1992).
Belcher, Kenneth W.
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