The aim of this book is to provide the most detailed, coherent analysis of the issue of biopiracy to date.

Based on extensive interviews with key players, this book tells the story of these profound transformations in information ownership.

Global Biopiracy rethinks the role of international law and legal concepts, global patent systems, and international agricultural research institutions as they affect legal ownership and control of plants and the knowledge that makes them ...

This book lays bare the destructive power of overly capitalistic systems that enable mass human suffering and environmental catastrophe via the entanglement of private investment and public policy.This democratic emergency is analyzed in ...

This book details the rollout of market conservation programs, including the finding drugs from nature--or "bioprospecting"--biodiversity offsetting, and the selling of blue carbon credits from mangroves.

Focusing on the protection of traditional knowledge and related genetic resources, this book is the first of its kind to amalgamate a novel theoretical framework with the practical applications of the combined theories of Rawls and Coase.

Award-winning scientist and activist Dr. Vandana Shiva argues that genetic engineering and the cloning of organisms are "the ultimate expression of the commercialization of science and the commodification of nature... life itself is being ...

This publication is made up of two intertwining books: one documents the works of Theatrum Botanicum, including the scripts for two films; the second is a compendium of brief, commissioned essays that aims to offer an accessible snapshot of ...

With special reference to India.