Notes on Contributors xix
Miri (Margaret) Raven is a Scientia Fellow affiliated with the Social Policy Research Centre; the Environment and Society Group; and The George Institute
for Global Health at UNSW. Margaret is a member of the Australian Research
Council College of Experts, and sits on the Australian Institute for Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Human Research Ethics Committee. Margaret is also a Chief Investigator with Professor Daniel Robinson on the
five-year Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project (DP180100507):
Indigenous knowledge futures: protecting and promoting indigenous knowledge (2018–2022). Margaret is a Yamatji-Noongar (and non-Indigenous) woman
from Western Australia, with a background in geography, human rights, native
title and social policy research. Her research focuses on protocols, Indigenous
food and social policy. Her papers cover themes related to protocols, biopiracy
and food security.
Daniel Robinson is a Professor in the Environment and Society Group at
UNSW. He is also an Academic Lead for the Pacific, for the UNSW Institute for
Global Development (IGD). Daniel is currently the Pacific Regional Manager
of the Access and Benefit-Sharing Capacity Development Initiative, which has a
five-year project implementing the Nagoya Protocol in the Pacific from 2017 to
2021. See http://www.abs-initiative.info/. Daniel is also Chief Investigator with
Dr Miri (Margaret) Raven on the five-year Australian Research Council (ARC)
Discovery Project (DP180100507): Indigenous knowledge futures: protecting
and promoting indigenous knowledge (2018–2022).
Giulia Sajeva In January 2020, Giulia Sajeva begins a Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Individual Fellowship on Rights for Ecosystem Services at the Strathclyde Centre
for Environmental Law and Governance, University of Strathclyde. Under the
supervision of Professor Elisa Morgera, Giulia will aim at developing a theoretical and legal framework – labelled Rights for Ecosystems Services (RES) (echoing the highly debated Payment for Ecosystem Services framework) – to guide
policy and legal developments towards reducing the risk of local communities
abandoning their sustainable practices due to the lack of effective protection.
Giulia holds a PhD in human rights, wherein she produced a thesis in legal
theory on biocultural rights. She collaborated with the NGO Natural Justice:
Lawyers for communities and the environment and worked with the Kew Royal
Botanic Gardens’ Conventions and Policies Section, where she conducted research on the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention on the
International Trade on Endangered Species, as well as on Ethical Guidelines for
research with Indigenous peoples.
She was the Vice-President of the Religion and Conservation Biology Working Group of the Society of Conservation Biology, which is interested in the
intersection between religions and environmental protection and is now an
Miri (Margaret) Raven is a Scientia Fellow affiliated with the Social Policy Research Centre; the Environment and Society Group; and The George Institute
for Global Health at UNSW. Margaret is a member of the Australian Research
Council College of Experts, and sits on the Australian Institute for Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Human Research Ethics Committee. Margaret is also a Chief Investigator with Professor Daniel Robinson on the
five-year Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project (DP180100507):
Indigenous knowledge futures: protecting and promoting indigenous knowledge (2018–2022). Margaret is a Yamatji-Noongar (and non-Indigenous) woman
from Western Australia, with a background in geography, human rights, native
title and social policy research. Her research focuses on protocols, Indigenous
food and social policy. Her papers cover themes related to protocols, biopiracy
and food security.
Daniel Robinson is a Professor in the Environment and Society Group at
UNSW. He is also an Academic Lead for the Pacific, for the UNSW Institute for
Global Development (IGD). Daniel is currently the Pacific Regional Manager
of the Access and Benefit-Sharing Capacity Development Initiative, which has a
five-year project implementing the Nagoya Protocol in the Pacific from 2017 to
2021. See http://www.abs-initiative.info/. Daniel is also Chief Investigator with
Dr Miri (Margaret) Raven on the five-year Australian Research Council (ARC)
Discovery Project (DP180100507): Indigenous knowledge futures: protecting
and promoting indigenous knowledge (2018–2022).
Giulia Sajeva In January 2020, Giulia Sajeva begins a Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Individual Fellowship on Rights for Ecosystem Services at the Strathclyde Centre
for Environmental Law and Governance, University of Strathclyde. Under the
supervision of Professor Elisa Morgera, Giulia will aim at developing a theoretical and legal framework – labelled Rights for Ecosystems Services (RES) (echoing the highly debated Payment for Ecosystem Services framework) – to guide
policy and legal developments towards reducing the risk of local communities
abandoning their sustainable practices due to the lack of effective protection.
Giulia holds a PhD in human rights, wherein she produced a thesis in legal
theory on biocultural rights. She collaborated with the NGO Natural Justice:
Lawyers for communities and the environment and worked with the Kew Royal
Botanic Gardens’ Conventions and Policies Section, where she conducted research on the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention on the
International Trade on Endangered Species, as well as on Ethical Guidelines for
research with Indigenous peoples.
She was the Vice-President of the Religion and Conservation Biology Working Group of the Society of Conservation Biology, which is interested in the
intersection between religions and environmental protection and is now an