Beyond the Biodiversity Convention
Author : Ashish Kothari
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN :
Author : Ashish Kothari
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN :
Author : G.K. Rosendal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,50 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 940159421X
The book focuses on the negotiation process leading up to the creation of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and the domestic implementation of this international agreement. This political science study of the negotiation process applies several perspectives drawn from international relations theories, while also focusing on the implementation of international environmental agreements in a developing country. Moreover, the links between factors at international and domestic levels are examined, with four proposed mechanisms through which an international institution may affect domestic policies. Evidence is found that the CBD has had a beneficial impact on national biodiversity policies in the country studied, but that necessary compatible legislation is absent in developed country parties. Readership: Policy makers, decision makers, political scientists, lawyers and environmentalists engaged in development assistance work, and academics and industrialists involved in the biotechnology industry.
Author : Myron H. Nordquist
Publisher : Center for Oceans Law and Poli
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004422414
"This book is based on presentations made at the Malmö Conference by many of the most knowledgeable experts on both the on-going bbnj negotiations at the United Nations and on the well- established UNCLOS principles and rules. The Malmö Conference featured remarks by distinguished diplomats followed by six parts devoted to identifying the major issues at the bbnj negotiations"--
Author : Michael Bowman
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 1996-01-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041108637
This work presents a thorough analysis of the biodiversity concept in international law 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 explicitly to address all aspects of biodiversity ranging from the conservation 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 generally, 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 analyses the controversial issue of intellectual property rights, the problems of implementation in the European Union and the United States, differences between developing and developed states and the role of indigenous peoples. 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 on the subject of International Law and Global Climate Change (Graham & Trotman, 1991). It is the first major study of the Convention of the context in which it was negotiated, and of the prospects for its implementation, following the entry into force of the Convention on 29 December 1993.
Author : Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Publisher : Secretariat of Convention
Page : 1540 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN :
Author : Philippe G. Le Prestre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN :
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Author : Fiona McConnell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 1996-07-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041109170
This book describes how a rather vague proposal put To The UN Environment Programme in 1987 developed into the 1992 Biodiversity Convention. The author gives a first hand and personal account of heading the UK delegation during the negotiations and subsequently, As a consultant, Of taking part in the first tentative steps towards its implementation. The Convention has generated a number of academic treatises and legal analyses: this book offers a unique insight into how it was negotiated, arguments and counterarguments, misunderstandings, compromises, rhetoric, camaraderie and frustation. The `story' takes the reader behind the scenes at international gatherings in London, Nairobi, Geneva, Montreal, New York, Madrid, Nassau And The Rio de Janeiro `Earth Summit'. It should be of interest to environmental policy makers, conservation groups, lawyers, students of environmental law and of the wider United Nations negotiating process.
Author : Morten Walløe Tvedt
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Convention on Biological Diversity
ISBN : 2831709806
Fewer than 11% of CBD Parties have adopted substantive ABS law, and nearly all of these are developing countries, focusing almost entirely on the 'access' side of the equation. Most of the CBD's specific ABS obligations, however, relate to the other side of the equation-benefit sharing. This book considers the full range of ABS obligations, and how existing tools in user countries' national law can be used to achieve the CBD's third objective. It examines the laws of those user countries which have either declared that their ABS obligations are satisfied by existing national law, or have begun legislative development; the requirements, weaknesses and gaps in achieving benefit-sharing objectives; and the ways in which new or existing legal tools can be applied to these requirements.
Author : Timothy Swanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1134174748
At the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the nations of the world adopted the convention on Biological Diversity. Since then, over 160 countries have ratified the Convention, three Conferences of the Parties have taken place and a permanent secretariat has been established. Despite this, there remains a lot of uncertainty and even more controversy about what the Convention was intended to accomplish and how it was to do so. This book, published in association with the IUCN - The World Conservation Union, sets out to answer some of these questions by recounting the history of the movements leading up to the Convention, but especially by analysing the forces giving rise to the problem. It provides a specific set of policy prescriptions intended to facilitate the development of institutions and obligations within the international community which will give real effect to the aspirations of the Convention, and the ensure that it has some real effect at ground level. The author begins with an overview of the issues and then develops the basic nature of the problems within a bio-economic framework. He highlights the gaps in the Convention which remain to be filled, offers detailed explanations of the concepts involved and describes the nature of the solutions required. Thus he sets out a detailed plan for global action in support of an effective international convention for the conservation of biological diversity. The book is an excellent introduction to a very topical debate, and a valuable reference point for conservationists, policy makers and students of development studies, environmental studies, environmental policy and conservation biology.
Author : Secretariat To The Cbd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 38,2 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1134201974
In 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio, the United Nations adopted the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to agree international measures aimed at preserving the vital ecosystems and biological resources on which we all depend. This is the official handbook to the Convention and presents all the most important information about the CBD, including a guide to the decisions adopted and to ongoing activities. It is an essential resource for all the governments, intergovernmental agencies, NGOs and conservation bodies and researchers working in this area. Included with the book is a fully indexed and cross-referenced CD-ROM containing all the relevant background material to the Convention, linked to relevant decisions and other sources of information.