TY - BOOK AU - Swanson, Timothy (Ed.) TI - Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity Conservation SN - 9780521635806 U1 - 346.048 PY - 1998/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Intellectual Property Rights KW - Biodiversity Conservation N1 - Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Diversity and sustainability: evolution, information and institutions Timothy Swanson Part A: Plant Communities and the Generation of Information Chapter 2. Chemical diversity in plants Linda Fellows and Anthony Scofield Chapter 3. Ethnobotany and the search for balance between use and conservation Jennie Wood Sheldon and Michael J. Balick Part B: The Value of Plant-Generated Information in Pharmaceuticals Chapter 4. The pharmaceutical discovery process Georg Albers-Schonberg Chapter 5. The role of plant screening and plant supply in biodiversity conservation, drug development and health care Bruce Aylward Chapter 6. The economic value of plant-based pharmaceuticals David Pearce and Seema Puroshothaman Part C: The Institutions for Regulating Information from Diversity Chapter 7. The appropriation of evolution's values: an institutional analysis of intellectual property regimes and biodiversity conservation Timothy Swanson Chapter 8. Preserving biodiversity: the role of property rights Ian Walden; Part D: The Importance of Cultural Diversity in Biodiversity Conservation Chapter 9. Medicinal plants, indigenous medicine and conservation of biodiversity in Ghana Katrina Brown Chapter 10. Biodiversity and the conservation of medicinal plants: issues from the perspective of the developing world Mohamed Khalil Index ER -