Protecting Biological Diversity: The Effectiveness of Access and Benefit-sharing Regimes (Hardback) - Routledge

Protecting Biological Diversity: The Effectiveness of Access and Benefit-sharing Regimes (Hardback) - Routledge: "During the last ten years the enormous global loss of biodiversity has received remarkable attention. Among the numerous approaches undertaken to stop or lessen this process, access and benefit-sharing (ABS), a market-based approach, has emerged as among the most prominent. In theory, ABS turns biodiversity and genetic resources from an open access good to a private good and creates a market for genetic resources"