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Taylor & Francis Ltd Towards An Ecological Intellectual Property : Reconfiguring Relationships Between People And Plants In Ecuador by David J Jefferson
This book focuses on analysing how legal systems set the terms for interactions between human beings and plants. _x000D_
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The story that the book recounts is one of experimental lawmaking in Ecuador, a country where over the past decade, governmental officials and civil society advocates have attempted to reconfigure how human individuals and institutions relate to nature, by following an eco-centric approach to lawmaking. In doing so, Ecuadorian legislators, administrators, and judges have taken seriously the ontologies of non-human entities, including plants, through a process that has required the continuous navigation of tensions with certain logics that pervade conventional legal regimes. The book endeavours to disru.show more