Common Pools of Genetic Resources

Managing genetic resources and traditional knowledge is critical to one of the most significant issues facing the global environment – maintenance of biodiversity. Written by a team of expert academics and practitioners in the field, this innovative book makes a timely and valuable contribution to academic and policy debates in International Environmental Law, International Biodiversity Law, Intellectual Property, Climate Law and the Law of Indigenous Populations. Taking an inductive approach, it starts from existing pools and discusses how they could be further developed to cope with the objectives of the Nagoya Protocol.