Marine Genetic Resources 1 /
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John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. The Scientific Representation of the Living World: A Dual Concept Between Nature's and Humans' Shares; 1.1. Natural sciences: the given living world; 1.1.1. Taxonomy: the observation of the living world; 1.1.2. Systematics: the identification of the living world; 1.2. Life sciences: the constructed living world; 1.2.1. Biological sciences: the exploration of the living world; 1.2.2. Bio-technosciences: the instrumentalization of the living world; Part 1. Singular Objects Moving Toward Reservation.
- 2. Exploitable Raw Materials2.1. Genetic material: natural resources defined according to their conditions of appropriation; 2.1.1. Appropriable natural things; 2.1.2. Things on the verge of exclusive appropriation; 2.2. Marine genetic resources: biological resources defined according to their destination; 2.2.1. Traditional marine living resources exploited for food and industrial purposes; 2.2.2. New marine biological resources searched for the purposes of scientific and biotechnological valorization; 3. Patentable Biotechnological Inventions.
- 3.1. The patentability of life of any origin: an established principle3.1.1. The uncontested patentability of inventions of microorganic origin; 3.1.2. The logical acceptance of the patentability of inventions of macroorganic origin; 3.2. The patentability of life in all its forms: a questionable reality; 3.2.1. An overall commodification of the living world; 3.2.2. A gradual privatization of research in life sciences; Part 2. Global Objects Moving Toward Sharing; 4. Residual Res Communes; 4.1. Res communes due to disinterest; 4.1.1. Non-appropriable things as a matter of principle.
- 4.1.2. Things of common use4.2. Common resources at risk; 4.2.1. The tragedy of the genetic pool; 4.2.2. The tragedy of the scientific anticommons; 5. Reconstructing the Commons; 5.1. Renewal of the commons in a context of global interdependencies; 5.1.1. Global public goods: a theoretical and global approach to the commons; 5.1.2. Common-pool resources: a concrete and nuanced approach to the commons; 5.2. An attempt to apply renewed figures of the commons to marine biodiversity and associated knowledge; 5.2.1. A desirable communitarization; 5.2.2. A communitarization difficult to implement.
- ConclusionAPPENDICES; Appendix 1. Classical Marine Bioprospecting: Biochemistry and Genetic Engineering; Appendix 2. Modern Marine Bioprospecting: Metagenomics; Appendix 3. The Drug Research and Development Steps; Appendix 4. Risk Assessment in the Bioprospecting Process; Appendix 5. Aleatory Component Comparison in Fishing and Bioprospecting; Appendix 6. Patent Claims Over Genes of Marine Origin; Appendix 7. Illustrative Database on Marine Biotechnological Innovations; Bibliography; Index; Other titles from iSTE in Ecological Science; EULA.