In 1992, 168 nations signed the Convention on Biological Diversity, pledging to protect biodiversity and to equitably share biodiversity’s resources. What’s happened since?
We will have a clearer understading by the end of 2019, when a book with leading authors from UNE’s Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law (AgLaw) will be on the shelves. The book will provide an in-depth comparative analysis of how Australia and Brazil have responded the international Biodiversity Convention.
AgLaw Director Professor Paul Martin, pictured, has just signed the book contract with Routledge. He says it will lay out the work of 28 investigators who, using methods devised by the AgLaw Centre, have examined progress (or failure) around issues like agricultural biodiversity, marine biodiversity, the environmental interests of minority people, and other aspects of biodiversity protection in both countries.
“It’s the sort of detailed analysis we need to provide a careful objective assessment of what is actually happening — and what needs to happen — to make biodiversity protection effective, efficient and fair”.
The project forms part of a larger and developing collaboration between Australian and South America researchers around natural resource governance, Prof Martin adds.
