Biodiversity: Scientific Stakes and Inferences (The Case of Plants and Plant-breeding)

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"Biodiversity perceptions are many and eventually contradictory. However the rising concern on its short-term evolution urges a significant investment in research and in the integration of new information into the decision making process. From a scientific point of view Biodiversity appears to be a loose concept and one needs to associate it with the impact of human activities on nature. This leads to several questions, two of which will be discussed : Is biotechnology a salvage or a scourge to the general biodiversity concern? Should we promote more stringent conservations or should we rely on an evolution guided by the caution principle?"

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IASC, common pool resources, biodiversity, intellectual property rights

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