Apologies for the shameless self-promotion - the following book that might be of interest has just been released:
Sebastian Oberthür and G. Kristin Rosendal (eds.), Global Governance of Genetic Resources: Access and Benefit Sharing after the Nagoya Protocol, Abingdon: Routledge 2014. This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010’s Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). It offers a central resource regarding ABS governance for those working on and interested in global environmental governance. This is achieved by focusing on two broad themes of the wider research agenda on global environmental governance, namely architecture and agency. Furthermore, individual chapter contributions relate and link ABS governance to other prominent debates in the field, such as institutional complexes, compliance, market-based approaches, EU leadership, the role of small states, the role of non-state actors and more. Partly due to its seeming technical complexity, ABS governance has so far not been at the centre of attention of scholars and practitioners of global environmental governance. In this book, care is taken to provide an accessible account of key functional features of the governance system which enables non-specialists to gain a grasp on the main issues involved, allowing ABS governance to be more fully recognised in discussions on global environmental governance. Table of Contents 1. Global Governance of Genetic Resources: Background and Analytical Framework Sebastian Oberthür and G. Kristin Rosendal 2. The Term ‘Genetic Resources’: Flexible and Dynamic while Providing Legal Certainty? Morten Walløe Tvedt and Peter Johan Schei 3. The Negotiations of the Nagoya Protocol: Issues, Coalitions and Process Linda Wallbott, Franziska Wolff and Justyna Pożarowska 4. The Role of Non-state Actors in the Nagoya Protocol Negotiations Amandine Orsini 5. The Role of the European Union in the Negotiations on the Nagoya Protocol: Self-interested Bridge Building Sebastian Oberthür and Florian Rabitz 6. The Role of Switzerland in the Nagoya Protocol Negotiations Marc Hufty, Tobias Schulz, and Maurice Tschopp 7. Goals, Strategies and Success of the African Group in the Negotiations of the Nagoya Protocol Linda Wallbott 8. The Nagoya Protocol and the Diffusion of Economic Instruments for Ecosystem Services Franziska Wolff 9. Beyond Nagoya: Towards a Legally Functional System of Access and Benefit-sharing Morten Walløe Tvedt 10. The Impact of the Nagoya Protocol on the Evolving Institutional Complex of ABS Governance Sebastian Oberthür and Justyna Pożarowska 11. Balancing ABS and IPR Governance in the Aquaculture Sector G. Kristin Rosendal, Ingrid Olesen and Morten Walløe Tvedt 12. Governance Options for ex-situ Collections in Academic Research Susette Biber-Klemm, Kate Davis, Laurent Gautier, and Sylvia I. Martinez 13. Conclusions: An Assessment of Global Governance of Genetic Resources after the Nagoya Protocol Sebastian Oberthür and G. Kristin Rosendal For more information, please visit: http://routledge-ny.com/books/details/9780415656252/ Best regards, Sebastian Prof. Dr. Sebastian Oberthür Academic Director Institute for European Studies Vrije Universiteit Brussel OFFICE: MAIL: Pleinlaan 5 Pleinlaan 2 1050 Brussels 1050 Brussels Mobile: +32-477-841654 F: +32-2-6148010 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> WWW: www.ies.be<http://www.ies.be> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
