A good recent piece is Catherine Corson & Kenneth Iain MacDonald (2012): Enclosing the global commons: the convention on biological diversity and green grabbing, Journal of Peasant Studies, 39:2, 263-283.
Also see Banking Nature? The Spectacular Financialisation of Environmental Conservation Sian Sullivan, in a recent issue of Antipode. and Susan Walker et al., Why bartering biodiversity fails, in Conservation Letters 2 (2009) 149–157. THE NAGOYA PROTOCOL ON ACCESS AND BENEFIT SHARING OF GENETIC RESOURCES: ANALYSIS AND IMPLEMENTATION OPTIONS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Gurdial Singh Nijar* SOUTH CENTRE MARCH 2011 My older article, McAfee, K. 1999. Selling nature to save it? Biodiversity and green developmentalism. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 17, 133–154, describes origins of the regime and some key ideas, such as 'selling nature to save it', that are even more prominent in the current biodiversity regime. (I haven't kept material on aspects such as national biodiversity action plans, etc. but I don't think these have much significance in negotiations, much less in practice. There's good material coming out about alternative conceptualization of nature/biodiversity-human relations, including from indigenous peoples' groups, but I doubt you want to go in to this for your class.) I'd be interesting in seeing the list of suggestions that you gather from this inquiry. Kathy On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Henrik Selin <[email protected]> wrote: > My apologies for the multiple posts/questions, but I'm guessing I'm not the > only one currently in the process of updating syllabi... Can someone > recommend any current class readings on the biodiversity regime? > > Henrik > > -- Kathleen McAfee Associate Professor, International Relations San Francisco State University
