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Yemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional StabilityYemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional Stability
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Yemen presents a 'perfect storm' of problems for Western governments confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically...

Key Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack ObamaKey Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack Obama
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Chatham House experts offer their perspectives on the key foreign policy and economic challenges facing the new administration. The following...

Economic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' MeasuresEconomic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' Measures
Wednesday 15 October 2008
A new paper by Chatham House says that the once-in-a-century economic meltdown means that OECD countries' simultaneous collapse in...

Latest Chatham House Papers

Prospects for Georgian Civil Society
November, 2008
This is a summary of a meeting held at Chatham House on 10 November 2008.

Business and Human Rights: Closing the Gaps
November, 2008
This is a summary of the International Law Discussion Group meeting held on 6 November 2008 at Chatham House.

Reflections on Russia and the West
November, 2008
Those concerned with policy-making towards Russia must determine how best to listen to the country's changing conversation with itself,...

Yemen: Fear of Failure
November, 2008
Yemen presents a potent combination of problems for policy-makers confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically important...

 

 

Alison Hoare

Alison Hoare

Associate Fellow, Energy, Environment and Development Programme

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Expertise

  • Natural resource use & sustainable development

  • Ethnobiology & forest management

  • Intellectual property rights & sustainable development

  • International environmental governance

Projects

  • Impact of IPR rules on sustainable development
  • Genetic resource use & CBD negotiations
  • International environmental crime

Recent Publications

  • 'Patenting Genetic Resources: Striving for the Right Balance', with Richard Tarasofsky, Chatham House Briefing Paper, October 2007
  • Asking and Telling: Can "Disclosure of Origin" Requirements in Patent Applications Make a Difference? The Journal of World Intellectual Property 10(2)(2007): 149-169 A.L. Hoare & R.G. Tarasofsky
  • Resource Rights and Timber Concessions: Integrating local peoples' land-use practices in forest management in the Congo Basin. The Rainforest Foundation, UK. (2007)
  • The Use Of Non-Timber Forest Products in the Congo Basin: Constraints and Opportunities. The Rainforest Foundation, UK. (2007)
  • Divided Forests: Towards Fairer Zoning of Forest Lands. The Rainforest Foundation, UK. (2006)
  • Food Resources of the Lundayeh of the Ulu Padas, Sabah, and Changing Patterns of Resource Use. Borneo Research Bulletin 34 (2003): 94-119
  • Implications of a UNEO for the Global Architecture of the International Environmental Governance System. IDDRI (2004) R.G. Tarasofsky & A.L. Hoare.

Experience


2006 - Date Associate Fellow, Chatham House
2004 - 2006 Research Consultant
2002 - 2003 Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Kent
1998 - 2002 PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Kent
1997 - 1998 M.Phil. Candidate, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
1993 - 1997 People and Plants Initiative, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Languages

French (not for broadcast)