Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation
Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing

Presents the first comprehensive study of Indigenous perspectives on genetic resources, traditional knowledge, and access and benefit sharing in Canada. This book is also available as Open Access.

Chidi Oguamanam (Edited by)

9781108470766, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 20 December 2018

298 pages, 3 b/w illus. 5 tables
23.5 x 15.7 x 2 cm, 0.55 kg

When the oral history of a medicinal plant as a genetic resource is used to develop a blockbuster drug, how is the contribution of indigenous peoples recognized in research and commercialization? What other ethical, legal, and policy issues come into play? Is it accurate for countries to self-identify as users or providers of genetic resources? This edited collection, which focuses on Canada, is the result of research conducted in partnership with indigenous peoples in that country, where melting permafrost and new sea lanes have opened the region's biodiversity, underscoring Canada's status as a user and provider of genetic resources and associated indigenous knowledge. This work is an important resource for scholars, corporations, indigenous peoples, policymakers, and concerned citizens as Canada and other countries take on the implementation of Access and Benefit Sharing policies over genetic resources and associated indigenous knowledge. This book is also available as Open Access.

Part I. The Evolution of the ABS Policy Landscape in Canada: 1. The ABS Canada initiative: scoping and gauging Indigenous responses to ABS Chidi Oguamanam
2. Canada and the Nagoya Protocol: towards implementation, in support of reconciliation Timothy J. Hodges and Jock Langford
3. Aboriginal partnership, capacity building, and capacity development on ABS: the Maritime Aboriginal Peoples Council (MAPC) and ABS Canada experience Chidi Oguamanam and Roger Hunka
Part II. Hurdles to ABS: Conceptual Questions, Practical Responses and Paths Forward: 4. Unsettling Canada's colonial constitution: a response to the question of domestic law and the creation of an access and benefit sharing regime Joshua Nichols
5. Making room for the Nagoya Protocol in Nunavut Daniel W. Dylan
6. Implications of the evolution of Canada's three orders of government for ABS implementation Fred Perron-Welch and Chidi Oguamanam
7. Biopiracy flashpoints and increasing tensions over ABS in Canada Chidi Oguamanam and Christopher Koziol
8. Applying Dene Law to genetic resources access and knowledge issues Larry Chartrand
9. Access and benefit sharing in Canada: glimpses from the national experiences of Brazil, Namibia and Australia to inform indigenous-sensitive policy Freedom-Kai Phillips
Part III. New Technological Dynamics and Research Ethics: Implications for ABS Governance: 10. Access and benefit sharing in the age of digital biology Peter W. B. Phillips, Stuart J. Smyth and Jeremy de Beer
11. ABS: big data, data sovereignty, and digitization – a new indigenous research landscape Chidi Oguamanam
12. Ethical guidance for access and benefit sharing: implications for reconciliation Kelly Bannister
13. Mapping the patterns of underestimated researcher-indigenous peoples collaborations – toward independent implementation of ABS principles Thomas Burelli
14. ABS, reconciliation, and opportunity Chidi Oguamanam.

Subject Areas: Forensic medicine [MMQ], Medical ethics & professional conduct [MBDC], Medical & healthcare law [LNTM], Intellectual property law [LNR], International human rights law [LBBR], International environmental law [LBBP], Development economics & emerging economies [KCM]