Biodiversity and Marine Resources Publications

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Only a few of the following publications are currently available in electronic format. Publications that do not have PDF or zipped links are available in hard copy from Charlotte Healey. To download and view PDF files, you will need to download free copies of Adobe's Acrobat Reader.

The RECIEL articles below, are in an electronic version of the article published in RECIEL: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of RECIEL, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/reel or www.blackwell-synergy.com.

01/08 'Tough Talks - access and benefit sharing objective within the Convention on Biological Diversity', In D+C, No. 05 2008, Volume 49 (Siegele). Read more.

05/06 ' Global Environment Facility (GEF) Performance- Based Resource Allocation Framework (RAF)', FIELD and RSPB, In ECO, December 2005, Volume 14, Issue 5, p2, pp1 (Hyvarinen, and Siegele) Available in PDF .

05/01 'Traditional Knowledge protection and customary law: Status of disucussions in the WTO and CBD', FIELD, May 2005 (Razzaque)

04/03 'Estudio comparado de las regulaciones de acceso a los recursos genéticos, distribución de beneficios y protección del conocimiento tradicional asociado: la Comunidad Andina, Costa Rica y el Borrador de Protocolo Centroamericano', FIELD, June 2004 (Lasén Diaz and Gari) Available in PDF

04/02 'El marco legislativo internacional sobre acceso a los recursos geneticos, el reparto equitativo de beneficios y la proteccion del conocimiento tradicional asociado, y su relacion con los derechos de propiedad intelectual', FIELD, June 2004 (Lasén Diaz) Available in PDF

02/04 'Seguridad de la Biotechnologia Moderna en Chile: Aspectos Juridicos', CDA / FIELD, 2002 (Herve, Lasén Diaz et al)

02/03 'Environmental Damage and Genetically Modified Organisms' Environmental Damage in International and Comparative Law: Problems of Definitions and Valuation, Oxford University Press, Edited by Michael Bowman & Alan Boyle 2002, 22pp (Mackenzie)

02/02 'Prospects for International Environmental Law', The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Reconciling Trade in Biotechnology with Environment and Development?, Edited by Christoph Bail, Robert Falkner and Helen Marquard, July 2002,10pp (Mackenzie & Sands)

02/01 'The Precautionary Principle since Rio - Biotechnology and the Cartagena Protocol' in Precaution from Rio to Johannesburg: Proceedings of a Geneva Environment Network Roundtable, International Environment House / Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape, May 2002 (Lasen Diaz)

01/09 'The EC Habitats Directive Approaches its Tenth Anniversary: An Overview', In RECIEL, Vol 10, Issue 3, 2001, 8pp (Lasén Diaz)

00/18 'The Application of European 'Right to Know' Laws to Fishing Subsidies', A Technical Briefing Report by FIELD for WWF, November 2000, 75pp (Lasén Diaz) Available in PDF

00/14 'Regional Approaches to Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity: the case of access to genetic resources', Paper prepared for the EU Concerted Action Conference on the Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements, Barcelona, 9-11 November 2000 (Lasén Diaz) Available in PDF

00/9 'The 2000 Protocol on Biosafety: Legal and Political Dimensions', 10(3), Global Environmental Change, 2000 (Mackenzie & Newell)

00/2 'Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Overview’ in IUCN Environmental Law Programme Newsletter, January - April 2000 (Mackenzie) at iucn.org/themes/law/index.html

00/1 'The Regulation of Genetically Modified Foods in the European Union: An Overview’, NYU Environmental Law Journal, Vol 3, 2000, 530-556pp (Mackenzie & Francescon)

99/27 'Marine Biodiversity Protection through Fisheries Management - International Legal Developments, In RECIEL, Vol 8, Issue 3, 1999, 7pp (Rose)

98/16 'The Conservation and Sustainable Use of Forest Biological Diversity: The Role of the Convention on Biological Diversity', Assessing the International Forest Regime, Ed. R. Tarasofsky IUCN Environmental Policy & Law Paper No 37, October 1998, 25pp (Khalastchi & Mackenzie)

97/30 Project to Enhance Policy-Making Capacity under the Framework Convention on Climate Change: Case Study on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, May 1997, 93pp (Badia Marti & Fabra)

97/26 Case Study on the Convention on Biological Diversity (Draft) FIELD working paper, 1997, 67pp (Yamin)

97/24 'Forests', Reports for Yearbook of International Environmental Law 1996, Vol 7, 1997, Ed Günther Handl, 6pp (Yamin)

97/15 'Legal Issues Relating to Liability and Compensation for Damage in Relation to the Transboundary Movement of Living Modified Organisms', Chapter from Transboundary Movement of Living Modified Organisms Resulting from Modern Biotechnology: Issues and Opportunities for Policy-Makers, Ed. Kalemani J. Mulongoy, Geneva University Press, 1997, 15pp (Ascencio & Mackenzie)

97/11 'The Ethical Dimensions in the Future: European Vth Framework Programme for Research and Devlopment', XXXVIIITH Meeting of the Group of Advisers on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology, Brussels, 19 June 1997, 7pp (Yamin)

97/9 'NGO Participation in the Convention on Biological Diversity: Insights and Recommendations for the UNFCCC Process', A FIELD Working Paper, July 1997, 11pp (Yamin)

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96/6 'Towards a Global Convention on International Watercourses', Paper for Conference on New Environmental Challenges: Legal Responses, Lisbon, 29-30 Mar 1996, pp8 (French version) (Sands)

96/5 'Microbial Diversity and the 1992 Biodiversity Convention', A report from the Congress of the International Union of Microbiological Societies in July 1994, Published in Biodiversity and Conservation, Vol 5, 1996, pp 473-491 (Sands & Layard)

95/17 'A Global Framework for the Responsible Management of the Oceans' Paper by WWF for the Workshop on Environmental Science, Comprehensiveness & Consistency in Global Decisions on Oceans Issues 1995 21pp (Werksman)

95/10 The UN Biodiversity Convention and the WTO TRIPS Agreement: A WWF International Discussion Paper 1995 30pp (Cameron & Makuch)

95/8 'Biodiversity, Ethics and International Law', Journal of International Affairs, Vol 71, Issue 3, 1995 pp529-546 (Yamin)

94/12 'CITES and the Lusaka Agreement: A Case Study of a Regional Approach to Increase Compliance in Southern Africa', June 1994, 26pp (Yamin & Gualdoni)

94/8 Biodiversity Conservation and Intellectual Property Rights Position Paper for WWF, Sep 1994, 36pp (Yamin)

94/7 'Small Island Developing States and the Convention on Biological Diversity: Obligations and Opportunities', FIELD Discussion Paper, April 1994, 9pp (Yamin)

94/1 'International Regimes for the Conservation and Control of Plant Genetic Resources', CSERGE papers, 1994, 33pp (Rose)

93/14 'Indigenous Peoples, Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights', RECIEL Vol 2:2, 1993, pp141-48 (Yamin & Posey)

92/20 'The International Legal Protection of the Forest: A Case Study in Ecuador', FIELD Report, 44pp, May 1992 (Fabra)

92/14 'On the Oceans Document of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED): The Role of the International Whaling Commission, International Whaling Commission Evolution or Extinction?' Report by the Environmental Investigation Agency for International Whaling Commission Meeting, June 1992 38pp (Rose & Cameron)

91/30 An Analysis of International Whaling Commission Competence to Conserve Small Cetaceans in EEZs and Territorial Seas for the Environmental Investigation Agency 1991 (Cameron)

91/20 'Community Fisheries Management Legislation in EC Waters', Prepared for Greenpeace International, 65pp, 1991 (Rose)

91/19 Competence of the International Whaling Commission to Protect Small Cetaceans in Exclusive Economic Zones and Territorial Seas Report for Environmental Investigation Agency, March 1991, 41pp (Rose)

91/18 Draft text on: Convention for the Conservation and Wise Use of Forests (with explanatory notes), Prepared by CIEL for GLOBE-EC (Global Legislators for a Balanced Environment), 1991 51pp (Yamin & Cameron)

The RECIEL articles below, are in an electronic version of the article published in RECIEL: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of RECIEL, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/reel or www.blackwell-synergy.com.

If you have any difficulty downloading any of the available documents, please contact Charlotte Healey..

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