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Global Biopiracy Rethinks The Role Of International Law And Legal Concepts, The Western-based, Eurocentric Patent Systems Of The World, And International Agricultural Research Institutions As They Affect Legal Ownership And Control Of Plants And Tkup.. The Analysis Is Cast In Various Contexts And Examined At Multiple Levels. The First Deals With The Eurocentric Character Of The Patent System, International Law, And Institutions. The Second Involves The Cultural And Economic Dichotomy Between The Industrialized Western World And The Westernizing, Developing World. The Third Level Of Analysis Considers The Phenomenal Loss Of Human Cultures And Plant Diversity. Exhaustively Researched And Eloquently Argued, Global Biopiracy Sheds New Light On A Contentious Topic.--book Jacket. Introduction -- Patents, Indigenous And Traditional Knowledge, And Biopiracy -- Implications Of Biopiracy For Biological And Chemical Diversity -- The Appropriative Aspects Of Biopiracy -- Patent Regimes And Biopiracy -- Conclusion. Ikechi Mgbeoji. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [280]-303) And Index.

Author

Mgbeoji, Ikechi, 1968-

Publisher

University of British Columbia Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780774811521

Subjects

Law, Technology

Updated

2026-03-24