From biopiracy to bioprospecting : an historical sociology of the search for biological resources

With the 1992 United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity humanity's ongoing search for biological resources became subject to global regulation. The collection of biological materials for use in agriculture and medicine by one nation from another became conditional on criteria of informe...

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Main Author: Christian, Nigel David
Published: University of Warwick 2007
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490361