The ABS Canada Initiative: Scoping and Gauging Indigenous Responses to ABS

In Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing
Chidi Oguamanam, ed.
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 3-19

This chapter has three objectives: (1) to explain the concept and context for access and benefit-sharing (ABS) in Canada, (2) to outline the undergirding methodology and process for the research that resulted in this book and (3) to provide a concise annotation of the component chapters and demonstrate their cohesiveness in tackling the global challenge of ABS over genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge through Canadian insights.

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