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Towards an Ecological Intellectual Property: Reconfiguring Relationships Between People and Plants in Ecuador

Towards an Ecological Intellectual Property: Reconfiguring Relationships Between People and Plants in Ecuador

Jefferson, David J.

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property, Book 1

Environmental StudiesGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0367429799
ISBN13: 9780367429799
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 24 2020
Pages: 238
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book focuses on analysing how legal systems set the terms for interactions between human beings and plants.

The story that the book recounts is one of experimental lawmaking in Ecuador, a country where over the past decade, governmental officials and civil society advocates have attempted to reconfigure how human individuals and institutions relate to nature, by following an eco-centric approach to lawmaking. In doing so, Ecuadorian legislators, administrators, and judges have taken seriously the ontologies of non-human entities, including plants, through a process that has required the continuous navigation of tensions with certain logics that pervade conventional legal regimes. The book endeavours to disrupt these conventional assumptions and approaches to lawmaking by taking seriously alternative strategies to reconstitute interactions between people and plants. In doing so, the book argues in favour of an ecological turn in laws that govern vegetal life. The analysis is based on a close examination of the experiences that lawmakers in Ecuador have had when experimenting with innovative approaches to re-form relationships between human and non-human beings. Concretely, these experiments have yielded constitutional, legislative, and regulatory changes that inform the inquiry of how intellectual property and plant genetic resources laws - both in Ecuador and worldwide - could become more ecological in nature.

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