- Title
- The role of traditional knowledge and access to genetic resources in biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asia
- Creator
- Antons, Christoph
- Relation
- Biodiversity and Conservation Vol. 19, Issue 4, p. 1189-1204
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-010-9816-y
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- The article examines international treaties linking trade and environment, their governance models and implementation in the context of Southeast Asia. Particular attention is being paid to the role of intellectual property concepts, customary law and traditional knowledge as incentives for biodiversity conservation and to difficulties in defining the subject matter and communities of knowledge holders. Indonesia’s regulation of traditional knowledge and access to biodiversity is discussed as example. The article concludes that national development goals and interests in royalty collection frequently dominate the discussion and that key concepts are still insufficiently defined to avoid overlaps and conflicts. Genuine local support for the conservationist aims of the models will depend on whether a benefit flow to communities can be ensured and their original role to act as incentives can be realised. International collaboration is important to avoid disputes concerning biodiversity related knowledge held across borders.
- Subject
- incentives for community based biodiversity conservation; definitions of traditional knowledge; definitions of knowledge holding communities; access to genetic resources; intellectual property rights
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1387027
- Identifier
- uon:32506
- Identifier
- ISSN:0960-3115
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2010. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
- Language
- eng
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