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