Biodiversity

Usha Tandon is Professor and Head at Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi, India. Mohan Parasaran is a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India and was previously the Solicitor General of India and Additional Solicitor General of India. Sidharth Luthra is a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India and was earlier the Additional Solicitor General of India.

Contributors. Preface. Foreword by Klaus Bosselmann. Introduction I Biodiversity Conservation: Issues and Challenges 1. Sustainable Wetlands and Biodiversity Conservation: Nigeria’s Lagos Lagoons in Focus 2. Marine Spatial Planning as a Key Instrument for the Sustainable Use of Marine Resources: The Case of Mauritius II Biodiversity Governance and Diplomacy 3. Biodiversity Conservation and Management in India, Brazil and South Africa: Law, Policy and Diplomacy in Contemporary Age 4. Biodiversity Conservation and Management: The Ugandan Experience III Convention on Biological Diversity, ABS and TRIPS 5. Implementing the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing in India 6. Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights versus Convention on Biological Diversity: A Call for Harmonization IV Genetic Engineering: Problems and Prospects 7. Genetically Modified Crops: Neither Poison nor Panacea V Judicial Responses 8. PIL-An Effective Tool for Biodiversity Conservation: An Indian Experience 9. Assessing India’s Green Tribunal for Conservation of Biodiversity 10. Role of Judiciary in Bio Diversity Enforcement and Compliance: Comparison between International Court of Justice and Indian Judiciary VI The Way Forward 11. Feminist Dimension of Biodiversity Challenges 12. The Possibility of Urgenda in India 13. The Possibility of Global Environmental Organization. Table of Cases. Index