Protection of Himalayan Biodiversity

International Environmental Law and a Regional Legal Framework
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-81-321-0463-6
Verlag: Sage Publications India

Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 600 g

Reihe: SAGE Law

Beginning with the ecological, economic, social and legal facets of biodiversity issues and challenges facing the Himalayan region, the book discusses the Convention on Biological Diversity and subsequent developments. A pioneering work on the protection of the Himalayan biodiversity, it uses tools upheld by international environmental law and examines exhaustively the possibility of evolving regional partnerships for the protection of the Himalayas.

The debate between the technology-rich First World and the bio-rich Third World is studied in detail, with a focus on issues of access and benefit-sharing. The book also examines the gaps in existing and evolving national laws and policies on the protection of biodiversity, and in doing so, envisages a framework of regional laws on the subject.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhattarai, Ananda Mohan

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Surya P Subedi

Preface
Introducing the Himalayan Region: Bio and Livelihood Challenges
Mountains: Convention on Biological Diversity and Subsequent Developments
Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing
Protection of Traditional Knowledge
Biological Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights
Framework of Regional Cooperation in the Himalaya, and Strategies for Negotiation
Concluding Observations
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bhattarai, Ananda Mohan
Ananda Mohan Bhattarai is a judge in the Court of Appeal in Nepal. He was associated with the National Judicial Academy, Nepal since its establishment in 2004, where he worked first as a core faculty and later as an extended faculty. He has worked in the Nepal judiciary for more than 27 years.

He holds an L.L.M. and J.S.D. from the National Law School of India, Bangalore. He was a SPURS/Hubert Humphrey Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (2002–03) and Georg Forster Fellow at Max Planck Institute of International Law and Comparative Public Law, Heidelberg, Germany (2005–06 and 2008). Apart from numerous research articles, he has published two books: Displacement and Rehabilitation in Nepal (2001) and Communities, Forests and Laws of Nepal (2005, co-authored with Dilraj Khanal).