Practical developments in law science and policy: efforts to protect the traditional group knowledge and practices of the Shuar, an indigenous people of the Ecuadorian Amazon

Craig Hammer (), Juan Jintiach () and Ricardo Tsakimp
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Policy Sciences, 2013, vol. 46, issue 2, 125-141

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to broadly outline a problem in the context of relatively recent activity in the Amazon Basin. My colleagues and I found the Policy Sciences framework to be a useful blueprint for comprehensive issue analysis. The five intellectual tasks of the policy-oriented approach to solving problems helped us to clarify the apparent goals of the primary actors involved; identify certain trends associated with the problem, including estimations of their magnitude and implications; understand several conditioning factors which could impact (or have already had an impact on) the achievement of the goals identified; recognize several projections anticipated from a normative standpoint in light of the trends examined; and make some observations, including possible strategies and their alternatives, which might enable the Shuar to maximize benefits and minimize costs. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

Keywords: Indigenous; Policy sciences; Intellectual property; Traditional knowledge; Shuar; Law (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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