Protecting Biological Diversity: The Effectiveness of Access and Benefit-sharing Regimes (Routledge Studies in Development and Society)
Автор:Carmen Richerzhagen Год: 2010 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 266 ISBN: 0415872243 During the last ten years the enormous global loss of biodiversity has received remarkable attention. Among the numerous approaches undertaken to stop or lessen this process, access and benefit-sharing (ABS), a market-based approach, has emerged as among the most prominent. In theory, ABS turns biodiversity and genetic resources from an open access good to a private good and creates a market for genetic resources. It internalizes the resourcesa?? positive externalities by pricing the commercial values for research and development and makes users pay for it. Usersa?? benefits are shared with the resource holders and set incentives for the sustainable use and the conservation of biodiversity. Carmen Richerzhagen, however, finds that in practice there are significant questions about the effectiveness of the approach in the protection of biodiversity and about the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the commercialization. Utilizing the empirical findings of three case...
