This volume provides a reference textbook and comprehensive compilation of multifaceted perspectives on the legal issues arising from the conservation and exploitation of non-human biological resources. Contributors include leading academics, policy-makers and practitioners reviewing a range of socio-legal issues concerning the relationships between humankind and the natural world.

The book is divided into four sections. The first examines various international and local environmental law issues concerned with the stewardship of biological resources, including the Nagoya Protocol....