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The historical roots of the north-south dynamic in biodiversity conservation and its imprint on the Convention on Biological Diversity

Abstract

The formative years of biodiversity conservation in the 1980s were dominated by a series of essentialisms—population, rainforest, resource—that set the stage for a North-South dynamic built upon an orientalist pattern: the North proposed and the South reacted. This period also witnessed the formal entry of the concept of biodiversity into the corpus of international environmental law via the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). This chapter examines the confluence of these two phenomena.

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Authors

Kotsakis, Andreas

Oxford Brookes departments

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences\School of Law

Dates

Year of publication: 2017
Date of RADAR deposit: 2017-10-06

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