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Property Rights, Indigenous People and the Developing World: Issues from Aboriginal Entitlement to Intellectual Ownership Rights Hardcover - 2008

by David Lea


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Includes bibliographical references and index.

From the rear cover

This work offers an analysis of the Western formal system of private property and its moral justification and explains the relevance of the institution to particular current issues that face aboriginal peoples and the developing world. The subjects under study include broadly: aboriginal land claims; third world development; intellectual property rights and the relatively recent TRIPs agreement (Trade related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights). Within these broad areas we highlight the following concerns: the maintenance of cultural integrity; group autonomy; economic benefit; access to health care; biodiversity; biopiracy and even the independence of the recently emerged third world nation states. Despite certain apparent advantages from embracing the Western institution of private ownership, the text explains that the Western institution of private property is undergoing a fundamental redefinition through the expansion

Details

  • Title Property Rights, Indigenous People and the Developing World: Issues from Aboriginal Entitlement to Intellectual Ownership Rights
  • Author David Lea
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 308
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill Nijhoff
  • Date 2008-06
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9789004166943 / 9004166947
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.4 x 0.9 in (24.13 x 16.26 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008018215
  • Dewey Decimal Code 346.042

About the author

David R. Lea Ph.D (1990) in Philosophy, University of Ottawa, is Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. He has published extensively on the issue of ownership rights and its relationship to development from a philosophical perspective.