Biodiversity and Business: Bio Prospecting and Benefit Sharing

本書探討了影響全球生物多樣性的氣候風險，並討論了生物多樣性的可持續利用及其法律意涵。從聯合國《生物多樣性公約》的角度來看，可持續的生物探勘將有助於保護資源及支持那些保護資源的生計。在生物多樣性豐富的國家，生物多樣性提供了多種生態系統服務，並為數百萬貧困人口提供收入和生計，同時也是與生物資源相關的豐富傳統知識（TK）的家園，這些知識可以轉化為治療用途。至於氣候風險，與生物多樣性不科學管理和使用相關的風險遠遠超過對社會和商業的好處，因此，減少對生物多樣性的壓力並發展可持續的商品供應鏈對於產業和政府而言都是至關重要的。在市場上探索和進一步挖掘生物多樣性的潛力，一直是生物技術專家、食品加工商、醫療保健專家等高度關注的主題，因為這些潛力是真正的金礦。本書將吸引對全球生態學和生物多樣性保護感興趣的研究人員及大學學生。

Dr Laladhas K P is an eminent academician, researcher and a social activist involved diligently for the empowerment of students. He has 27 years of meritorious academic service in higher education teaching and research. He is involved in coupling modern scientific technology for the enhancement and conservation of traditional biodiversity. His areas of research include conservation of biodiversity, bio-prospecting, molecular characterization, biological assays and computational research.

He has completed different major and minor research projects funded by Government of Kerala, the Department of Science & Technology and the University Grants commission. He has also worked on consultancy projects funded by the UNDP and National Medicinal Plant Board. He has also participated in two COPs of UN CBD. Four International Books have been edited; two books were published by Springer International and two by Bentham Publishers. More than Seventy five research publications were published in peer-reviewed International and National Journals. He has also authored seven books in the area of Environment & Biodiversity and been published by National Publishers.

He was formerly the Principal of St Stephen's College, Pathanapuran, in Kerala. He also served as the Member Secretary of Kerala State Biodiversity Board for more than five years. His expertise has been registered in the academic and administrative committees of different Universities in Kerala such as Member Senate, Board of studies and Faculty. He has also functioned as an Expert member in the different policy-making committees of the National Biodiversity Authority, Government of India and Government of Kerala. He has also worked as an expert member of Kerala Coastal Zone Management Authority, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India, and Member of the working group on Biodiversity constituted by Kerala State Planning Board for the 13th Five-year plan. At present Dr Laladhas is functioning as the Corporate Manager of Lutheran Schools of IELC.

Dr. Prakash Nelliyat is a renowned Environmental Economist having enormous experience in Natural Resources' Management including Biodiversity. Presently, he is the 'Key Expert' (Economist) in the 'Monitoring and Evaluation' team of the World Bank sponsored 'Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agricultural Modernization (TNIAM)' Project at Centre for Water Resources, Anna University Chennai India. Previously he worked as 'Subject Expert' (Economic Valuation of Tradable Bio-resources in Kerala) in the Rebuild Kerala Inetiative Programme at the Kerala State Biodiversity Board; 'Consultant' (Biodiversity Finance Initiative) at the UNDP; 'Fellow - Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS)', at the Centre for Biodiversity Policy and Law, Chennai.

Dr. Prakash has more than 30 years research and teaching experience in Environmental Economics, Biodiversity and Water Resources Issues, and Natural Resources Management and received IWMI-TATA Water Policy Research Program's Young Scientist Award, 2006. Prakash received the World Bank Aided India Capacity Building project (Environmental Economics) Overseas Fellowship (2002) and carried out research at the Department of Water and Environmental Studies, Linkoping University, Sweden. He presented number of papers on biodiversity/water and other natural resources issues in national and international conferences in different countries and also published articles in reputed journals, edited books, and news papers.

Professor Oommen V. Oommen is an eminent zoologist and biodiversity conservationist with over four decades of experience as a teacher, scientist and as a policy decision maker. He was the Professor and Head, Department of Zoology and Dean of the faculty of science, University of Kerala India. Subsequently he continued his research career as a CSIR Emeritus scientist and visiting professor at central university of Kerala at Kasargod where he helped developing the animal science department. He has mentored more than 30 researchers for their doctoral degree from the University of Kerala. He served as the chairman of the Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) and during this period he had been responsible for bringing about policy decisions which enabled the conservation and sustainable use of bio resources in the state of Kerala. During his tenure in KSBB, he also gave leadership for documenting the biodiversity in the form of Peoples' Biodiversity Register (PBR) and the first Marine Biodiversity Register for the southern districts of Kerala. He has had research collaborations with several institutions in the country and a few abroad, like MD Andersons Cancer Center USA, Natural History Museum (NHM), London, University of Guelph, Canada etc. Considering his contributions to amphibian biology, the scientists from NHM honoured him by naming a Caecilian amphibian as, Uraeotyphlus oommeni. He has around 180 papers published in peer reviewed national and international journals apart from 15+ book chapters and edited 6 international books, four by Springer Nature. He has also authored several popular science articles and spread the gospel of Biodiversity Conservation by sustainable use of bio resources among the people of Kerala by adopting a People Inclusive form of Biodiversity conservation in the Western Ghats of Kerala. Prof. Oommen is a recipient of CSIR-CNRS fellowship to work in University of Paris, International Scientific Exchange Award from NSERC, Cananda to work in the University of Guelph, Ontario, Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship in the University of Sterling, U.K and was a visiting Professor in M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, U.S.A. He is a Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc), Kerala Academy of Science, (FAS) and Society for Reproductive Biology & Endocrinology (FRE), Chennai, India.

Dr. Laladhas K P 是一位傑出的學者、研究者及社會活動家，致力於學生的賦權。他在高等教育的教學和研究方面擁有27年的卓越學術服務經驗。他專注於將現代科學技術與傳統生物多樣性的增強和保護相結合。他的研究領域包括生物多樣性保護、生物勘探、分子特徵分析、生物檢測和計算研究。

他已完成多個由喀拉拉邦政府、科學與技術部及大學補助委員會資助的主要和次要研究項目。他還參與了由聯合國開發計劃署（UNDP）和國家藥用植物委員會資助的顧問項目。他曾參加過兩次聯合國生物多樣性公約（UN CBD）的締約方會議（COP）。他編輯了四本國際書籍，其中兩本由Springer International出版，兩本由Bentham Publishers出版。他在同行評審的國際和國內期刊上發表了超過75篇研究論文。他還在環境與生物多樣性領域撰寫了七本書籍，並由國家出版社出版。

他曾擔任喀拉拉邦帕坦納普蘭的聖斯蒂芬學院院長，並在喀拉拉邦生物多樣性委員會擔任成員秘書超過五年。他的專業知識已在喀拉拉邦不同大學的學術和行政委員會中註冊，如參議院成員、學術委員會和教職員。他還擔任過印度政府和喀拉拉邦政府國家生物多樣性管理局不同政策制定委員會的專家成員。他曾擔任印度環境與森林部喀拉拉海岸區域管理局的專家成員，以及喀拉拉邦規劃委員會為第十三個五年計劃成立的生物多樣性工作組成員。目前，Dr. Laladhas 擔任 IELC 路德教會學校的企業經理。

Dr. Prakash Nelliyat 是一位著名的環境經濟學家，擁有豐富的自然資源管理經驗，包括生物多樣性。目前，他是世界銀行資助的「泰米爾納德邦灌溉農業現代化（TNIAM）」項目在安娜大學水資源中心的「監測與評估」團隊的「關鍵專家」（經濟學家）。他曾在喀拉拉邦生物多樣性委員會的重建喀拉拉倡議計劃中擔任「主題專家」（喀拉拉可交易生物資源的經濟評估）；在聯合國開發計劃署擔任「顧問」（生物多樣性金融倡議）；以及在喀拉拉邦生物多樣性政策與法律中心擔任「研究員 - 獲取與利益分享（ABS）」。

Dr. Prakash 在環境經濟學、生物多樣性、水資源問題及自然資源管理方面擁有超過30年的研究和教學經驗，並於2006年獲得IWMI-TATA水政策研究計劃的青年科學家獎。他獲得了世界銀行援助的印度能力建設項目（環境經濟學）海外獎學金（2002），並在瑞典林雪平大學的水與環境研究系進行研究。他在不同國家的國內和國際會議上發表了多篇有關生物多樣性/水資源及其他自然資源問題的論文，並在知名期刊、編輯書籍和報紙上發表文章。

Professor Oommen V. Oommen 是一位傑出的動物學家和生物多樣性保護者，擁有超過四十年的教學、科學研究和政策決策經驗。他曾擔任印度喀拉拉大學動物學系教授及系主任，以及科學學院院長。隨後，他作為CSIR名譽科學家和喀拉拉中央大學的訪問教授繼續他的研究生涯。