Essays about: "Bioprospecting"

Found 4 essays containing the word Bioprospecting.

  1. 1. Ontology and Law: Bioprospecting in Antarctica

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Rakesh Prasad; [2022]
    Keywords : Sustainable Development; Conceptual Modeling; Ontological Legal Research; Knowledge Artifact; Activity Theory; Deep Text;

    Abstract : Could it be that even though no international treaty or regulation regulates bioprospecting in Antarctica, some features of the techno-science of bioprospecting already lie embedded in the deep texts of the potentially most relevant treaties and regulations? If so, international law already to that extent comprehends the phenomenon, making for sustainable governance and thereby sustainable development. To find out, first an ontology of bioprospecting was synthesized, by an activity theory based conceptual system modeling (CSM). READ MORE

  3. 2. Sustainable Use: A Contentious Promise - A Case Study on International Funding of Consumptive Sustainable Wildlife Use in South Africa's Biodiversity Economy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Mara Glas; [2022]
    Keywords : biodiversity economy; sustainable use; international conservation finance; community-based conservation; economic development; wildlife economics; South Africa; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In South Africa, sustainable use of wildlife is widely recognized as providing economic incentives and actively engaging rural communities in conservation management. Aiming to combat rampant poverty and wildlife crime in communities around protected areas (PAs), the country’s biodiversity economy envisions to scale (non-)consumptive activities in the pursuit of creating economically and environmentally viable wildlife businesses. READ MORE

  4. 3. “Our libraries are dying”: Biopiracy and the social value of traditional medicinal knowledge in Ecuadorian Amazonia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Ellen Forssell; [2021]
    Keywords : Biopiracy; Traditional Knowledge; Bioprospecting; Social Justice; Environmental Justice; Amazonia; Human Ecology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In a global social divide between modern and traditional, medicine has fallen into two sides. Still, much of modern medicine exists because of traditional medicinal knowledge, yet the latter is rarely given any recognition. READ MORE

  5. 4. Issues Around Bioprospecting, Traditional Knowledge and Access and Benefit Sharing in international and national legislation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Susanne Lindeskog; [2006]
    Keywords : Folkrätt; Immaterialrätt; Komparativ rätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Biodiversity was during the 1990s perceived as 'green gold'. With the emergence of the biotechnology industry, biodiversity prospecting, or bioprospecting, was perceived to provide opportunities to gain benefits for several purposes. READ MORE