part Part I Introduction
chapter 1 Biodiversity and the law: Mapping the international legal terrain / Burton Ong
chapter 2 Biodiversity and the Law in brief / Charles R. McManis
part Part II Conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources
chapter 3 Biodiversity in international environmental law through the UN Sustainable Development Goals / Nicholas A. Robinson
chapter 4 Biodiversity, protected areas and the law / Jamie Benidickson
chapter 5 The international legal framework for the protection and sustainable use of marine biological diversity / Youna Lyons and Denise Cheong
chapter 6 Biosecurity, invasive species and the law / Opi Outhwaite
chapter 7 Biotechnology, biodiversity, and the environment / Barbara A. Schaal and Joseph M. Jez
chapter 8 Legal responses in the United States to biodiversity loss and climate change / James Ming Chen
chapter 9 China's biodiversity law / John Copeland Nagle
chapter 10 The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: toward the realization of farmers' rights as a means of protecting and enhancing crop genetic diversity / Regine Andersen
part PART III Access and benefit- sharing
chapter 11 Access to and benefit- sharing of marine genetic resources beyond national jurisdiction: developing a new legally binding instrument / Carlos M. Correa
chapter 12 The impact of natural products discovery programs on our knowledge of the flora of Madagascar / James S. Miller and Porter P. Lowry II
chapter 13 Regulatory measures on access and benefit- sharing for biological and genetic resources: national and regional perspectives from the Philippines, Singapore and ASEAN / Lye Lin- Heng and Rose- Liza Eisma-Osorio
chapter 14 One step forward, two steps back? Implementing access and benefit- sharing legislation in South Africa / Rachel Wynberg
chapter 15 De- materializing genetic resources: synthetic biology, intellectual property and the ABS bypass / Margo A. Bagley
part Part IV Traditional knowledge protection
chapter 16 Traditional knowledge: Lessons from the past, lessons for the future / Michael J. Balick
chapter 17 Bioprospecting and traditional knowledge in Australia / Michael Blakeney
chapter 18 If we have never been modern, they have never been traditional: 'traditional knowledge', biodiversity, and the flawed ABS paradigm / Graham Dutfield
chapter 19 Where custom is the law: state and user obligations to 'take into consideration' customary law governing traditional knowledge and genetic resources / Brendan Tobin
part Part V Biodiversity and intellectual property protection
chapter 20 Biodiversity, intangible cultural heritage and intellectual property / Christoph Antons
chapter 21 Intellectual property, biodiversity and food security / Brad Sherman
chapter 22 Sisyphus redivivus? The work of WIPO on genetic resources and traditional knowledge / Nuno Pires de Carvalho
chapter 23 Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? A critical reflection on the WIPO IGC / Daniel F. Robinson
part PART VI The ethics, economics and science- policy interface of biodiversity protection
chapter 24 Naturalizing morality / Ursula Goodenough
chapter 25 Making legal use of the valuation of nature / Colin T. Reid
chapter 26 Bounded openness as the modality for the global multilateral benefit- sharing mechanism of the Nagoya Protocol / Joseph Henry Vogel, Klaus Angerer, Manuel Ruiz Muller and Omar Oduardo- Sierra
chapter 27 The IPBES, biodiversity and the law: design, functioning and perspectives of the Intergovernmental Science- Policy Platform on / Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Guillaume Futhazar, Denis Pesche and Sandrine Maljean- Dubois.