Genetic resources, marine scientific research and the international seabed area

Review of European Community and International Environmental Law

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 56-66

  Glowka, Lyle ^a  

^a IUCN Environmental Law Centre   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

GENETIC RESOURCE; LAW OF THE SEA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SEAFLOOR;

EID: 0032993242     PISSN: 09628797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9388.00178     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. William J. Broad, 'Hot Bugs, Minerals, and Other Deep-Sea Riches,' International Herald Tribune, 18 November 1993.
2. For purposes of this article genetic resources will be used to describe both genetic material of actual or potential value (Article 2, Convention on Biological Diversity), and biochemicals of actual or potential value.
3. Article 1, UNCLOS, in force 16 November 1994; (1982) 21 ILM 1261.
4. A full text PDF version of the revised paper distributed at the Second Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity can be found on the IUCN web site at 〈http://www.iucn.org〉 under the IUCN Environmental Law Programme theme.
5. The paper was subsequently revised again and published as Lyle Glowka, 'The Deepest of Ironies: Genetic Resources, Marine Scientific Research, and the Area', Ocean Yearbook, 12 (1996) 154.
6. William J. Broad, The World's Deep Cold Ocean Floors Harbor a Riotous Diversity of Life', New York Times, 17 October 1995.
7. Fred Pearce, 'Rockall Mud Richer Than Rainforest', New Scientist, 16 September 1995.
8. Id.
9. Bioprospecting or biodiversity prospecting is the exploration of biodiversity for commercially valuable genetic and biochemical resources. Walter Reid, et al.. Biodiversity Prospecting, (World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, 1993).
10. Fred Pearce, n. 6 above.
11. Underwater circulatory systems driven by sub-surface volcanic activity which discharge hydrogen sulphide and mineral laden fluids.
12. Areas where petroleum discharges naturally from the ocean floor.
13. Areas where large volumes of cool water, dissolved hydrogen sulphide or methane gas percolate up through sediments and discharge into superjacent waters.
14. Holger W. Jannasch. Life at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents, (Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Forhandlinger, Tapir Forlag, Trondheim, Norway, 1988).
15. Virginia Morell, 'Life's Last Domain', Science, 272 (1996) 1043.
16. Id.
17. William J. Broad. The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea, (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1997).
18. William T. Burke, 'State Practice, New Ocean Uses, and Ocean Governance Under UNCLOS', paper presented to the 28th meeting of the Law of the Sea Institute, Honolulu, 11-14 July 1994.
19. Neil Gross, 'Extreme Enzymes: Science is Commercializing Nature's Diehard Proteins', Business Week, 1 April 1996.
20. UN Doc. UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/1/L.1/Add.2, para. 30.
21. Report of the First Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, UN Doc. UNEP/CBD/COP/2/5.