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'Recover' is a term used when something is lost. 'Recovering Biodiversity' in our view addresses two levels at which we are 'losing biodiversity'. Biodiversity is getting lost through extinction and erosion with serious consequences for ecological balance and economic well being. It is also getting lost in terms of ownership and control through 'Biopiracy'-the phenomenon of claiming property rights to biodiversity and its products through intellectual property rights regimes and patents based on indigenous and traditional knowledge.

Examines status and likely future trends in relationship between business and commercial activity and maintenance of biodiversity within an evolving policy agenda; 6 articles. Agricultural biodiversity and food security, tourism, biotechnology trade and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and value and nature.

Cultural Memory and Biodiversity. Virginia D. Nazarea. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. 189 pp.

A dynamic economic model for a biodiversity prospecting contract, between a host country and a pharmaceutical company, is developed and used to explain the structure of existing contracts. The host country's stocks of biodiversity and genetic information are crucial inputs to the production of high-quality samples. Even with compete property rights contracts will be second best; it is not possible to perfectly monitor host-country inputs to the drug discovery process. Contracts vary due to the different degrees of observability of host-country inputs, and incomplete or ineffective property rights.