Introduction : Indigenous rights and traditional knowledge / Tania Bubela and E. Richard Gold -- Part 1. The international legal and political landscape -- WIPO, genetic resources and TK: the evolution of a formal intellectual property agreement protecting TK : associated with genetic resources / Charles Lawson -- A comparative analysis of access and benefits sharing systems / Rebecca Crookshanks and Peter W.B. Phillips -- From traditional medicines to modern drugs / Graham Dutfield -- Part 2. Case studies -- Brazil : property rights, biocultural resources and two tragedies : some lessons from Brazil / Edson Beas Rodrigues Jr. -- Kenya : old wine in new skin : traditional knowledge and customary law under the evolving normative environment in Kenya / Kent Nnadozie -- India : sustaining the indigenous knowledge commons / Ashok Kumbamu -- Canada : Canada's first nations' policies and practices related to managing traditional knowledge / Peter W.B. Phillips ... [et al.] -- Aboriginal rights and traditional ecological knowledge in Northern Canada / Cherie Metcalf and Tania Bubela -- Respecting and aligning knowledge systems in Northern Canada : beyond the international polar year / David S. Hik, Tania Bubela and Scot Nickels -- Part 3. Conclusion -- A capabilities-based framework / Julia Carbone.
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Elgar intellectual property and global development
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