Towards more equal footing in north–south biodiversity research: European and sub-Saharan viewpoints

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3143-3148

  Habel, Jan Christian ^a   Eggermont, Hilde ^b,c   Günter, Sven ^d,l   Mulwa, Ronald K ^e   Rieckmann, Marco ^f   Koh, Lian Pin ^g   Niassy, Saliou ^h   Ferguson, J Willem H ⁱ   Gebremichael, Gelaye ^j   Githiru, Mwangi ^e,k   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^a   Lens, Luc ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^e INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VECHTA   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^h INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^j JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^k Wildlife Works   (Kenya)

^l Section Forestry Worldwide   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Benefit sharing; Biodiversity access; Biopiracy; Colonialism; Knowledge transfer

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COLONIALISM; DATA SET; DEVELOPING WORLD; FOOTING; KNOWLEDGE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POLICY MAKING; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EUROPE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 84912011778     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0761-z     Document Type: Article

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