Select Publications

Book Chapters

Robinson DF, 2010, 'Sui Generis Systems for Plant Variety Protection and Traditional Knowledge in Asia', in Melendez-Ortiz R; Roffe P (ed.), Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development: Development Agendas in a Changing World, Edward Elgar, London, pp. 235 - 270

Robinson DF, 2008, 'Beyond `Protection` : Promoting Traditional Knowledge Systems in Thailand', in Patenting Lives: Life patents, culture and development, ASHGATE, Aldershot, pp. 121 - 138

Journal articles

Wright E; Robinson D, 2024, 'The Patents Māori Advisory Committee of Aotearoa New Zealand: Lessons for indigenous knowledge protection', Journal of World Intellectual Property, 27, pp. 222 - 241, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jwip.12295

Gillespie J; Robinson DF; O’Donnell T, 2024, 'Insights from Antipodean legal geography: Building an environmental legal geography scholarship', Progress in Human Geography, 48, pp. 316 - 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03091325241229810

McDuie-Ra D; Robinson DF; Gulson KN, 2024, 'Pandemic surveillance and mobilities across Sydney, New South Wales', Geographical Research, 62, pp. 45 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12618

Ohlin G; Trueb L; Raven M; Robinson DF, 2024, 'Towards a Fairer and More Equitable Bushfoods Industry: access and benefit-sharing and certification frameworks', Australian Geographer, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2024.2357790

Aime E; Robinson D, 2023, 'Indigenous biocultural rights and the Blue Mountains: Local and international policy challenges', Geographical Research, 61, pp. 413 - 428, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12610

Robinson DF; Wright E, 2023, 'Access and benefit-sharing: what indicators to measure ‘success’?', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 38, pp. 795 - 798, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.05.016

Raven M; Robinson D; Hunter J, 2021, 'The Emu: More-Than-Human and More-Than-Animal Geographies', Antipode, 53, pp. 1526 - 1545, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anti.12736

Adhikari K; Bikundo E; Chacko X; Chapman S; Humphries F; Johnson H; Keast E; Lawson C; Malbon J; Robinson D; Rourke M; Sanderson J; Tranter K, 2021, 'What should farmers’ rights look like? The possible substance of a right', Agronomy, 11, pp. 367, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11020367

Robinson D; Raven M; Makin E; Kalfatak D; Hickey F; Tari T, 2021, 'Legal geographies of kava, kastom and indigenous knowledge: Next steps under the Nagoya Protocol', Geoforum, 118, pp. 169 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.11.001

Robinson DF; Raven M, 2020, 'Recognising Indigenous customary law of totemic plant species: Challenges and pathways', The Geographical Journal, 186, pp. 31 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12320

Masud S; Robinson DF; Sultana N, 2019, 'Factors influencing communities’ flood risk perceptions: outcome of a community survey in the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment, Australia', Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 26, pp. 407 - 425, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2019.1682077

Lai JC; Robinson DF; Stirrup T; Tualima HY, 2019, 'Māori knowledge under the microscope: Appropriation and patenting of mātauranga Māori and related resources', Journal of World Intellectual Property, 22, pp. 205 - 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jwip.12125

Robinson DF, 2019, 'Pathological lives: disease, space and biopolitics', AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHER, 50, pp. 132 - 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2018.1444906

Robinson DF; Graham N, 2018, 'Legal pluralisms, justice and spatial conflicts: New directions in legal geography', Geographical Journal, 184, pp. 3 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12247

Robinson DF; McDuie-Ra DA, 2018, '(En)counter-feiting Bangkok: The urban spatial interlegalities of intellectual property law, enforcement and tolerance', The Geographical Journal, 184, pp. 41 - 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12209

Robinson D; Humphries F; Loban H, 2017, 'Implications of indigenous land tenure changes for accessing indigenous genetic resources from northern australia', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, 34, pp. 560 - 579, http://sites.thomsonreuters.com.au/journals/files/2017/11/EPLJ-Vol-34-No-6-Contents.pdf

Robinson D; Raven M, 2017, 'Identifying and Preventing Biopiracy in Australia: patent landscapes and legal geographies for plants with Indigenous Australian uses', Australian Geographer, 48, pp. 311 - 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2016.1229240

Robinson DF; Forsyth M, 2016, 'People, plants, place, and rules: the Nagoya Protocol in pacific island countries', Geographical Research, 54, pp. 324 - 335, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12178

Robinson DF; Drozdzewski D, 2016, 'Hybrid identities: juxtaposing multiple identities against the ‘authentic’ Moken', Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 23, pp. 536 - 554, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2015.1070730

Masud S; Merson J; Robinson DF, 2016, 'Adapting a holistic approach to flood management in the Hawkesbury–Nepean region: complexities and perceptions of the agencies involved', Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 59, pp. 1126 - 1147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2015.1056339

Robinson D; Bavikatte KS; Oliva MJ, 2015, 'Biocultural Community Protocols: Dialogues on the Space Within', IK: Other Ways of Knowing, 1, pp. 1 - 31, http://journals.psu.edu/ik/article/view/59704

Drozdzewski D; Robinson DF, 2015, 'Care-work on fieldwork: taking your own children into the field', Children's Geographies: advancing interdisciplinary understanding of younger people's lives, 13, pp. 372 - 378, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2015.1026210

Robinson D, 2015, 'TRIPS and Developing Countries: Towards a New IPR World Order?', GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 53, pp. 111 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12088

Robinson D, 2014, 'Business and biodiversity: Towards sustainable use value chains?', , pp. 16 - 19, http://www.ictsd.org/sites/default/files/review/biores8-10_0.pdf

Robinson D, 2014, 'Nagoya Protocol in the Spotlight with CBD meet ahead', , pp. 4 - 8

Robinson DF, 2013, 'Legal geographies of intellectual property, 'traditional' knowledge and biodiversity: Experiencing conventions, laws, customary law, and Karma in Thailand', Geographical Research, 51, pp. 375 - 386, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12022

Bartel R; Graham N; Jackson S; Prior JH; Robinson DF; Sherval M; Williams S, 2013, 'Legal geography: An Australian perspective', Geographical Research, 51, pp. 339 - 353, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12035

McDuie-Ra D; Robinson DF; Kaewmahanin J, 2013, 'Spatial dysfunction in post-tsunami Baan Lion: Taking the Moken beyond vulnerability and tradition', Geoforum, 48, pp. 145 - 155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.04.023

Timperley DG; Banks C; Robinson D; Roth J; Sacks R; Harvey RJ, 2011, 'Lateral frontal sinus access in endoscopic skull-base surgery', International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology, 1, pp. 290 - 295, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alr.20042

Zhang C; Robinson DF; Wang J; Liu J; Liu X; Tong LJ, 2011, 'Factors influencing farmers' willingness to participate in the conversion of cultivated land to wetland Program in Sanjiang National Nature Reserve, China', Environmental Management, 47, pp. 107 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-010-9586-z

Robinson DF; Gibson C, 2011, 'Governing knowledge: Discourses and tactics of the european union in trade-related intellectual property negotiations', Antipode, 43, pp. 1883 - 1910, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00860.x

Bavikatte K; Robinson DF, 2011, 'Towards a People's History of the Law: Biocultural Jurisprudence and the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing', Law, Environment & Development Journal, 7, pp. 35 - 55, http://www.lead-journal.org/content/11035.pdf

Robinson DF, 2010, 'Dealing with Traditional Knowledge Under the ABS Protocol', Bridges Trade BioRes Review, 4, pp. 8 - 10, http://ictsd.org/i/environment/87124/

Robinson DF, 2010, 'Locating biopiracy: Geographically and culturally situated knowledges', Environment and Planning A, 42, pp. 38 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a41346

Robinson DF, 2009, 'Biopiracy concerns heat up over chilli pepper', Bridges Trade BioRes Review, 3, pp. 6 - 7, http://ictsd.org/i/news/bioresreview/56902/

Kuanpoth J; Robinson DF, 2009, 'Protection of Geographical Indications: The Case of Jasmine Rice and Thailand', Intellectual Property Quarterly, 2009, pp. 281 - 398

Robinson DF; Edwards DJ, 2009, 'Sustainable housing design: measurement, motivation, and management in Sutherland Shire, Sydney, Australia', Environment and Planning B - Planning and Design, 36, pp. 336 - 354, http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/b31161

Robinson DF; Kuanpoth J, 2009, 'The Traditional Medicines Predicament: A Case Study of Thailand', The Journal of World Intellectual Property, 11, pp. 375 - 403, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1796.2008.00347.x

Robinson DF, 2008, 'Sui Generis Plant Variety Protection Systems: liability rules and non-UPOV systems of protection', Journal of intellectual property law and practice, 3, pp. 659 - 665

Gibson CR; Robinson DF, 2004, 'Creative Networks in Regional Australia', Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture and Policy, 112, pp. 83 - 100

Conference Papers

Robinson DF, 2007, 'Local agri-cultural and environmental knowledge: working with local institutes and communities in Thailand', in Jennings J; Packham R; Woodside D (eds.), Proceedings: APEN Forum 07 'Capture, Consolidate and Communicate', ANU Canberra, pp. 253 - 268, presented at APEN Forum 07: Capture, Consolidate and Communicate, ANU Canberra

Reports

Robinson D; Raven M; Puapii R, 2023, Aitutaki Vairakau Maori Network Protocol (Cook Island Maori version), http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28693

Robinson D; Raven M; Puapii R; Aitutaki Vairakau Maori Network , 2023, Aitutaki Traditional Medicines and Healers Network Protocol, UNSW, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28691

Chand R; Robinson D; Drews A, 2022, LESSONS FROM THE PACIFIC IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NAGOYA PROTOCOL ON ACCESS TO GENETIC RESOURCES AND THE FAIR AND EQUITABLE SHARING OF BENEFITS ARISING FROM THEIR UTILISATION, SPREP, Apia, Samoa, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28358, https://www.abs-biotrade.info/fileadmin/Downloads/2.%20PARTNER%20COUNTRIES/PACIFIC/1.%20GENERAL%20INFORMATION/Below/SPREP_-_Pacific/SPREP_-_Nagoya_Protocol_-_Lessons_from_the_Pacific_-_20220714.pdf

Robinson D, 2021, Pacific Patent Landscaping. Final Report, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Bonn & Eschborn, Germany, https://www.abs-biotrade.info/fileadmin/Downloads/2.%20PARTNER%20COUNTRIES/PACIFIC/1.%20GENERAL%20INFORMATION/Patent_Landscape_Report/Pacific-Patent-Landscaping-Report-2021.pdf

Robinson DF, 2012, Towards Access and Benefit-Sharing Best Practice: Pacific Case Studies, DSEWPAC and GIZ, Canberra and Eschborn, http://www.abs-initiative.info/uploads/media/ABS_Best_Practice_Pacific_Case_Studies_Final_01.pdf

Robinson DF; Defrenne E, 2011, Argan: A case study on ABS?, Union for Ethical Biotrade, Geneva, http://www.ethicalbiotrade.org/dl/UEBT_D_ROBINSON_AND_E_DEFRENNE_final.pdf

Mullapudi S; Robinson DF, 2008, Towards a Balanced 'Sui Generis' Plant Variety Regime: Guidelines to Establish a National PVP Law and an Understanding of TRIPS-Plus Aspects of Plant Rights, United Nations Development Programme, New York, http://www.undp.org/poverty/topics7_intellectual_property.shtml


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