This important and timely book provides a rigorous overview of the defining issues presently facing conservation at international level. The author provides detailed coverage of topics ranging from the classification of species right through to access and benefit sharing, drawing on his personal experience at intergovernmental level. Each question is examined through the prism of dozens of treaties and hundreds of decisions and resolutions of the key multilateral regimes, and the law in each area is supplemented by the necessary considerations of science, politics and philosophy – providing much-needed context for the reader.
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Biotechnology and Software Patent Law
A Comparative Review of New Developments
Edited by Emanuela Arezzo and Gustavo Ghidini
The new millennium has carried several challenges for patent law. This up-to-date book provides readers with an important overview of the most critical issues patent law is still facing today at the beginning of the twenty first century, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Edited by Douglas S. Kenney and Robert Wilkinson
The nexus between water and energy raises a set of public policy questions that go far beyond water and energy. Economic vitality and management of scarce and precious resources are at stake. This book contributes to the body of knowledge and understanding regarding water, energy, and the links between the two in the American West and beyond.
European Emissions Trading in Practice
An Economic Analysis
Stefano Clò
This unique and up-to-date book analyses the functioning of the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and assesses the extent to which relevant legislation has affected its capacity to promote cost-effective reduction of European carbon emissions.
Edited by Richard Cullen, Jefferson VanderWolk and Yan Xu
The core concern of this book is the potential use of taxation and related measures to foster climate-helpful, large-scale change within East Asia.
The contributing authors examine key issues such as how Greater China, for instance, confronts severe environmental problems which are a direct product of several decades of remarkable economic growth. The detailed analysis in this book identifies a range of green taxation guidelines for East Asia as it seeks to drive down striking levels of environmental degradation – and tackle the climate change challenge.
Intellectual Property and Climate Change
Inventing Clean Technologies
Matthew Rimmer
In the wake of the international summits in Copenhagen and Cancún, there is an urgent need to consider the role of intellectual property law in encouraging research, development, and diffusion of clean technologies to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change. This book charts the patent landscapes and legal conflicts emerging in a range of fields of innovation – including renewable forms of energy, such as solar power, wind power, and geothermal energy; as well as biofuels, green chemistry, green vehicles, energy efficiency, and smart grids.
Edited by Jamie Benidickson, Ben Boer, Antonio Herman Benjamin and Karen Morrow
This book examines the development of environmental law in the period since the ground-breaking 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development or ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro.
Intellectual Property, Agriculture and Global Food Security
The Privatization of Crop Diversity
Claudio Chiarolla
This well-researched book focuses on international governance of crop diversity and agricultural innovation. It highlights the implications that the future control of food, including access to agricultural resources and technologies, might have for global food security.
Myths and Realities of Business Environmentalism
Good Works, Good Business or Greenwash?
Kurt A. Strasser
Many businesses profess to be voluntarily taking steps to protect the environment, and going beyond compliance with environmental regulations to do so. Kurt Strasser evaluates these claims in this timely and cutting-edge inquiry.
Edited by Francis N. Botchway
This well-researched book covers a wide spectrum of important issues that are central to investment in natural resources and ultimately, economic development of Africa.
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