Joseph Henry Vogel, PhD is a professor at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras who specializes in the economics of biodiversity. An invited speaker at over 250 forums worldwide, Vogel has authored Genes for Sale (Oxford, 1994), The Biodiversity
...MoreJoseph Henry Vogel, PhD is a professor at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras who specializes in the economics of biodiversity. An invited speaker at over 250 forums worldwide, Vogel has authored Genes for Sale (Oxford, 1994), The Biodiversity Cartel (CARE, 2000) and dozens of refereed articles that explain an economic approach to access to genetic resources and intellectual property. Vogel has worked on various projects funded by the World Bank, InterAmerican Development Bank, USAID, and the United Nations Environmental Program. He has been a Fulbright scholar in Brazil, a research fellow in Australia, and a professor at the Facultad Latinoamerica de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Ecuador. He has recently finished three book projects, Amazonia in the Arts: Ecocriticism versus the Economics of Deforestation (co-authored with Camilo Gomides, forthcoming FLACSO), The Economics of the Yasuni Initiative: Climate Change as if Thermodynamics Mattered (Anthem Press, 2009) and The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain: A Place, A Process, A Philosophy (editor, Anthem Press, 2010).
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