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Table of contents
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- Foreword
- I. A New Lease on Life
- Authors: Walter V. Reid, Sarah A. Laird, Rodrigo Gamez, Ana Sittenfeld, Daniel H. Janzen, Michael Gollin, and Calestous Juma
- Companies Active in Plant and other Natural Product Collection and Screening
- Medicinal Drugs Whose Active Ingredients are Extracted or Derived from Plants
- II. Costa Rica's Conservation Program and National Biodiversity Institute (INBio)
- Authors: Rodrigo Gamez, Alfio Piva, Ana Sittenfeld, Eugenia Leon, Jorge Jimenez, and Gerando Mirabelli
- III. Biodiversity Prospecting by INBio
- Authors: Ana Sittenfeld, Rodrigo Gamez
- IV. Contracts for Biodiversity Prospecting
- Authors: Sarah A. Laird
- V. Research Management Policies: Permits for Collecting and Research in the Tropics
- Authors: Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, Rodrigo Gamez, Ana Sittenfeld, Jorge Jimenez
- VI. An Intellectual Property Rights Framework for Biodiversity Prospecting
- Authors: Michael A. Gollin
- VII. Policy Options for Scientific and Technological Capacity-Building
- Authors: Calestous Juma
- Annex 1. The Role of the Parataxonomists, Inventory Managers, and Taxonomists in Costa Rica's National Biodiversity Inventory
- Authors: Daniel H. Janzen, Winne Hallwachs, Jorge Jimenez, Rodrigo Gamez
- Annex 2. Draft Biodiversity Prospecting Contract
- Authors: David Downes, Sarah Laird, Christopher Klein, and Bonnie Kramer Carney
- Annex 3. Convention on Biological Diversity: A Textual Analysis Relating to Intellectual Property Rights
- Authors: Michael A. Gollin
- Annex 4. Text of United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity
- About the Authors
- Index
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