Banking on a patent solution for sharing Antarctica’s ex situ genetic resources

• Main Author: Humphries, Fran
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2018
• Subjects: Environmental and resources law; Antarctic; Griffith; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/374451; https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315098517

Economic and conservation interests in Antarctica’s ex situ biological and genetic resources1 are converging to create a perfect regulatory storm. On the one hand, an increasing interest in Antarctica’s genetic resources for commercial purposes2 could be expected to thrive in the absence of comprehe...