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| Title: | SUSTAINABILITY AND ENCLOSURE: LAND, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY |
| Authors: | Runge, C. Ford |
| Issue Date: | 2004 |
| Series/Report no.: | Working Paper WP04-1 |
| Abstract: | The tension between enterprise as a means and sustainability as an end is directly related to the tension between rights to exclude others from a stream of private benefits and rights to be included in streams of environmental improvements. Resolving this tension is necessary if we are to square the circle between sustainability and enterprise. I begin for perspective with a brief review of the enclosure of land, and the widely cited notion of the Tragedy of the Commons. I then consider the modern version of the debate, surrounding informatics and, more specifically, intellectual property in plant genomics. The last part of the discussion focuses on a synthesis in which the two faces of enclosure - to be excluded and to be included - are brought together with democratic theory to give "sustainable enterprise" coherence and meaning. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/14464 |
| Institution/Association: | University of Minnesota>Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy>Working Papers |
| Total Pages: | 33 |
| Language: | English |
| Collections: | Working Papers
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